How I Built a Privacy-First Browser Game Portal with Click-to-Load Iframes
Embedding a browser game looks simple: <iframe src= "https://games.example.net/my-game" ></iframe> That line lets a third party join the p…
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How Browsers Implement Native Focus Rings and Their Accessibility Implications
Ever had that moment when you tab through a form and suddenly the familiar glowing outline appears around a button or input? That subtle highlight, kn…
Browser Testing Gets Hard When the Browser Becomes Part of the Product
The easiest browser tests live entirely inside one tab. Open a page. Fill in a form. Click a button. Check the result. Unfortunately, many valuable us…
Frontend Standards Into an Installable AI Skill — for React, Next.js, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Nuxt, Astro, and Plain HTML/CSS
If you've used Claude Code, Cursor, or Copilot for any real amount of frontend work, you've probably noticed the same thing I did: the code is fast to…
How I Built an AI Alt Text Generator for WordPress — and What I Learned
Accessibility is one of those areas everyone agrees matters, but it often gets pushed down the development queue. Alt text is a good example. Adding d…
The most complete Angular UI library has 35 open accessibility bugs. A fair teardown of PrimeNG on Angular 21.
PrimeNG calls itself "the most complete Angular UI component library," and points at Fortune 500s and governments as users. It's genuinely one of the …
Managing Focus in Angular: Dialogs, Drawers and Route Changes Without Stranding Your Users
Every accessibility checklist mentions focus management, and then moves on — as if it were one item. It isn't. It's a discipline, and it's the single …
Why I Built an Angular Component Library Where Accessibility Isn't a Backlog Item
I've been building with Angular for ten years, and in that time I've watched the same thing happen on nearly every project. A component gets built, it…
Apple locked hearing assistance inside AirPods. So I built an open-source version for any earbuds.
In 2024, Apple shipped something genuinely great: AirPods Pro can run a clinical-style hearing test and then act as hearing assistance, tuned to your …
One line of CSS that breaks keyboard accessibility sitewide and two other patterns we keep finding in audits
Last week we ran accessibility audits across multiple sites. Different industries, different tech stacks, different teams. The same three problems kep…
Vertical Layout Considerations
Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React and write a series of articles documenting the steps …
Stop Hardcoding Hex #d9d9d9 In Your CSS
If you open any massive legacy codebase or inspect a fresh Figma handoff, you will probably see one hex code repeating everywhere: #d9d9d9. It’s the u…
Grimicorn Neon: When a Calm Theme Goes Loud
Originally published on danholloran.me The original Grimicorn was an exercise in restraint: muted pastels on a blue-gray base, tuned so nothing on scr…
Why I Built BONDING on My Son's Birthday
Why I Built BONDING on My Son's Birthday System Update v0.3.0: The Transponder This is the story of why a 40-year-old autistic mechanical engineer who…
Your contrast checker probably lies about rgba() text
Your contrast checker probably lies about rgba() text. Most checkers — and most hand-rolled WCAG snippets — assume both colours are fully opaque. The …
Building High-Converting Product Pages for Niche Fashion E-Commerce: A Developer's Guide
Building High-Converting Product Pages for Niche Fashion E-Commerce: A Developer's Guide If you're building an e-commerce site for niche fashion items…
Styling the Vertical - Achieving Parity
Note : This article is one of a series demonstrating building a React navigational component from scratch while considering accessibility through the …
Cloud TTS Chirp3-HD with Caching: Fixing Voice Readout for Accessibility
Cloud TTS Chirp3-HD with Caching: Fixing Voice Readout for Accessibility As a solo developer, keeping the product lean and accessible is paramount. A …
Link or Button, that is the question.
What is a Link? Definition A link is an interactive element that redirects the user to a new location which can be another section inside the current …
Accessibility-First Web Development: A Practical Framework
Here's a question most businesses never think to ask when they're building a website: can everyone actually use this? Not just the people on a fast la…
Focus Issues and Refinement Support
Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React and write a series of articles documenting the steps …
Styling and Color
Prologue A while ago, I decided to develop a fully accessible main navigation component in React and write a series of articles documenting the steps …
Keyboard Navigation Testing: A Developer Complete Guide to WCAG Operability
Keyboard accessibility is one of the most important — and most neglected — aspects of web accessibility. An estimated 2.5 million Americans have motor…
I Built an Accessible React Component Library from Scratch — Here's What I Learned
Why I built it Every time I started a new React project I'd reach for a UI library and hit the same wall. The big ones (MUI, Chakra) bring too much op…
Frontend Engineering Beyond Pixels: The Architecture of Digital Accessibility
From a high-level perspective, frontend engineering functions as the translation layer between raw, machine-readable data and human interaction throug…
AccessLens — a blind person's lanyard, powered by Gemma 4 on-device
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built AccessLens is an Android app that turns a Pixel 8 worn on a lanyard in…
L.E.N.S. — A private photography coach for blind and low-vision artisans
L.E.N.S. (Local Edge Native Studio) is a voice-guided photography coach that runs Gemma 4 E4B locally through Ollama — so a maker can verify and impro…
How to Fix Common WCAG Color Contrast Failures
Color contrast is the most frequently reported WCAG violation in automated audits. WebAIM's 2024 analysis of the top 1,000,000 home pages found that l…
Accessibility Guardian — AI-Powered WCAG Auditor That Thinks
This is a submission for the Gemma 4 Challenge: Build with Gemma 4 What I Built Accessibility auditing tools like axe-core are great at finding WCAG v…
Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2026: A Small-Business Action Plan for the Week Leading Up to May 21
Global Accessibility Awareness Day is on May 21 this year. It is the third Thursday in May, the way it always has been since 2012, and it is the one d…