What is website accessibility?
Short answer: web accessibility means building websites that are usable by as many people as possible
Hi, I'm Ben Robertson.
🛠 I'm a front end developer at Mediacurrent.
✍️ I write about front end development and web accessibility.
✈️ I help front end developers find remote jobs.
Free Email Course:
Common Accessibility Mistakes and How to Fix Them
A month long course to help you simplify web accessibility.
Recent Writing
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4 Principles for Getting Started with Website Accessibility
Getting started with web accessibility can be intimidating, but it doesn't have to be. Here are four simple (and fun!) tips to improve accessibility today.
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Common Accessibility Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
I presented at DrupalCamp Asheville on my personal accessibility principles and accessibility mistakes to avoid - the slides and recording are now available!.
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Component Based Development Using UI Patterns
Join me and my Mediacurrent friends for a training session on component driven development at DrupalCon in Nashville next week!
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Lazy Loading Video Based on Connection Speed
How to conditionally load a video based on connection speed using vanilla JavaScript and Promises.
Updates
Couldn’t resist creating a hamburgerHelper method to a hamburger menu 🍔
The hardest problem in programming is saying a word out loud for the first time in front of other people that you’ve read a million times but never heard anyone else say out loud.
This looks like a good starting point for working with service workers: Minimal viable service worker from Jeremy Keith https://adactio.com/journal/13540
I discovered crontab.guru. A simple way to visualize cron scheduling, for people like me that don’t get it 😉
My wife and I welcomed our first son into the world on February 16. I couldn’t be prouder 😍
