Christian Heilmann

Fixing the accessibility of Inspection overlays

May 17th, 2022

The Inspect tool is a great way to get information about different page elements before selecting then. Once it is enabled, it shows an information overlay as you move from element to element. The main problem with the tool is that sometimes it is tough to get the information about the right element, as they […]

A “Quick Edit” bookmarklet to make changes to any web site

May 12th, 2022

Using the Quick edit bookmarklet you can make any web site editable. Drag it to your favourites toolbar, click it and you get into edit mode. You can edit, copy and paste, delete and anything else. Hitting `ESC` will end edit mode. You can use this to quickly edit web sites before taking a screenshot, […]

One million broken web sites – and a way to prevent that

April 12th, 2022

Webaim.org releases an annual report called the WebAIM Million. This is a deep analysis of the one million most visited web sites how accessible they are. And every year the result is pretty grim. Across the one million home pages, 50,829,406 distinct accessibility errors were detected—an average of 50.8 errors per page. This is 1.1% […]

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