Darek Kay @darekkay@fosstodon.org

Okay, so do I click the button to turn "Auto Forward" on or off? Toggle buttons without a clear on/off state are confusing your users (the white color is just the hover state) #ux

I've been using Feedly as my RSS reader for the last 7 years. It's still a great tool, but after trying out Inoreader for a week, I'm sold: a more generous free tier, cheaper premium tiers and more power user features. #rss https://www.inoreader.com/alternative-to-feedly/

Testing minimum, avarage and maximum values for my upcoming Twitter dashboard widget 💡

So this is how a rather minor Hacker News exposure (15 points) looks like on the server:

A low text contrast often means a bad user experience. Here's an approach for designing and structuring color palettes so that we can prevent contrast ratio issues before they arise. #accessibility #a11y

https://darekkay.com/blog/accessible-color-palette/

I didn't expect thousands of downloads for my 6-year-old just for fun #IntelliJ plugin, let alone people creating pull requests 💖

But here we are: you can now get "valuable" commit messages through proxy connections: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/7536-what-the-commit

Today I've released a tool for creating accessible color palettes: https://github.com/darekkay/a11y-contrast

I'll share a blog post soon 😊

#a11y #accessibility #wcag

I finally took my next #IndieWeb steps by adding h-card and h-entry to my blog. I'll tackle webmentions next 🤓

I would really like to learn about all the benefits, but the low contrast ratio makes it barely readable #accessibility #a11y #ux

When you're choosing a UI framework for your next project, remember to check its out-of-the-box accessibility #a11y #ux

https://darekkay.com/blog/accessible-ui-frameworks/

I've joined the #GitHub Profile README club and automated the process to display my latest blog posts 🎉 Here's a short write-up 👇️

https://darekkay.com/blog/github-profile-readme/

🌈 Quick Tip: When you press the "Edit → Cut" shortcut without selecting anything, the whole line will be cut (works at least in #VSCode and #JetBrains IDEs)

1. Google claims to have found "Mobile Usability issues" on my site
2. Checking the Search Console - no issues found
3. Trigger a new validation without changing a thing
4. Now suddenly there are no issues 🤷🏻

Just spreading some love for Functional #CSS at my local Software Craftmanship Community 😊

🌈 Quick Tip: In Firefox, you can "Shift + Right Click" to bypass a custom or disabled context menu. Try it out yourself: https://codepen.io/darekkay/pen/rNxxwzN

Mastodon, Fediverse, IndieWeb — It's finally time for me to dive into the open web ideas 🌎️ Let's start the journey with a Mastodon profile 🙂 #mastodon