Abdulqudus Abubakre articles - 21 total
Automated Testing with jest-axe
When building web applications, ensuring accessibility should be as important as delivering features...
Understanding Accessible Names in HTML
Accessible names are a key part of ensuring that your web content is accessible to screen reader...
Hiding Elements in CSS: The Accessible Way
Hiding elements in your UI is common, but doing so in an accessible manner ensures you don’t...
Pausing, Stopping, and Hiding Animations with animation-play-state
When working with animations, it’s essential to ensure they are accessible to everyone. According to...
Building Accessible Animations with prefers-reduced-motion
Animations can be beautiful, but some animations can also be triggering for some users, and that's...
Writing meaningful alt texts
When talking about techniques to improve accessibility, one topic that comes up quite often is alt...
Improving UX of your forms
Forms, without a doubt play an important role in our day to day activities. Whether you're trying to...
Why your z-index isn't working
I was building a sidebar recently, and I encountered a bug where the content of the page was always o...
Font loading strategies: FOIT and FOUT
Flash Of Invisible Text and Flash Of Unstyled Text are two font loading strategies used in major brow...
Styling file inputs like a boss
HTML elements have default styles applied to them by individual browsers. These styles could vary dep...
Don't Just Say Hi....
As tech enthusiasts, we would at some point, for one reason or another need to reach out to someone....
CSS Specificity Explained
In this article, I'll be explaining what CSS spe-ci-fi-ci-ty is and how it works in very simple terms...
Responsive CSS Width
Have you been writing CSS and you had to use media queries just so your website could look good acros...
The not so technical guide to being a better front-end developer
When you go online looking for resources on how to become a better front-end developer, you most prob...
Harnessing The Power Of CSS Variables With JavaScript
CSS Variables have been around for quite some time now and I have to say, it has been really helpful....
Web Accessibility (Visual Impairments)
In the previous article, I discussed what accessibility is all about and why you should consider maki...
Accessibility and why you should care
Remember that one time you were going through your twitter timeline and you came across the #a11y has...
em VS rem
In the world of CSS and sizing, there are several units that can be used either for your font sizing...
Spread VS Rest Operator
The ... (dot, dot, dot) operator as I like to call it 😄, has been around since the introduction of ES...
append VS appendChild
This is the first post in the this vs that series. A series aimed at comparing two often confusing te...
Document Fragments and why you should use them
A document fragment is a fragment of a Document Object Model (DOM) tree, a chunk of tree that's separ...