[webfinds] Accessible apps, key access magic and fails and whistling at your computer

As people complained that I post too many links to follow on Twitter (it is my stream of consciousness – as I find it, I post it), I’m starting to release these link lists every few days now. Hopefully that helps.

Accessibility

• Tools & strategies for developing accessible web apps is
  a showcase how to build inclusive web apps/SPAs/PWAs in different JavaScript frameworks, currently working on the VueJS part.
• Vasilis van Gemert wrote his Master thesis trying to find the answer to the question What if we design websites exclusively for people with disabilities? .
• Building a Progressively-Enhanced Site is a step-by step explanation.
• @aardrian on what can be learned of the accessibility issues of rolling out WordPress’ new editor. Lessons from Gutenberg

JavaScript

• 15 Useful JavaScript Examples of .map, .reduce and .filter by Alex Permyakov has some very interesting examples.
• Luciano Mammino explains JavaScript iterator patterns

The web is broken

• Everything is terrible (but more so inside a keypress event handler) – Mike Taylor explaining how making keypress work across browsers is not as easy as we think it is.
• Convert a String to a Number in JavaScript
  Quite a few diferences in Number() and parseFloat();
• Beyond the interface – why do all apps look the same nowadays? Why do all websites look the same?

Geek

• SCRIPT-8 is a fantasy computer for making, sharing, and playing tiny retro-looking games (called cassettes). It’s free, browser-based, and open-source. Cassettes are written in JavaScript.
• The Modem Dialup Sound, Analyzed

Tools

• Archivarix is a wayback machine online downloader with CMS.
  Restore a fully functional copy of the site – 200 files for free!
• Trigger a action on element when keyboard hotkey is pressed.
  Lovely implementation by GitHub, just add data-hotkey attributes

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