Tools of the trade: Accessibility and Validation
Useful tools for blogs and websites. Part 6.
Accessibility is very important to me, and I like to make sure that each web page I build is optimised for readability and supports screen readers.
Accessibility is very important to me, and I like to make sure that each web page I build is optimised for readability and supports screen readers.
Working all day in front of a computer may not be an intense physical activity, but it is still taxing for our eyes, muscles, and body. stretchly is a cross-platform, FOSS app by Jan Hovancik, that reminds you to take breaks when working with a computer.
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Having recently abandoned social media (it feels really good, by the way), and not enjoying the ads, pop-ups, and overall clickbaity tone of most news sites, I have now moved to using rss feeds to get my updates. I find it funny that rss feeds have been around for ages, but after years of not really getting it, I now enjoy this method for getting news and updates more than any other.
Photo by Ella Jardim on Unsplash.
Images are useful tools to set the mood of a blog or website; they attract the attention of readers and let people know at a glance what is the topic of the article they are about to read.
Joplin is a note-taking and to-do application with synchronization capabilities for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android and iOS.
While I don't use a lot of images on this blog, I do make art that I sometimes like to share online, and think it is important to make sure that images are optimised properly, so they don't take up a huge amount of space.
Krita – the app I use to make art – has its own web optimisation settings, however it is TinyPNG that provides the best results.