'Knowing what you're looking at' - JS tips for new React developers
I have a confession to make. While I have been a professional web developer for over 6 years, I didn't feel comfortable with JavaScript…
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Note: this blog is an archive and not actively maintained. Some information may be out of date. If you'd like to see what I am working on or work with me in a consulting capacity, visit my website lindseykopacz.com.
A Guide to Accessible Interactive Components using React Libraries
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. I’ve wanted to write this blog post ever since I wrote a11y and JS - A Seemingly…
Creating an Accessible Range Slider with CSS
I’ve always loved exploring how to make semantic, accessible elements aesthetically pleasing. And yes, it is possible. Challenging myself to…
How Accessibility Taught me to be Better at JavaScript - Part Two
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. Hey friends! Today's writing is going to be a follow up to How Accessibility Taught Me to be…
10 ways to help Accessibility at Conferences as a speaker
Hey friends! Wedding planning is starting to heat up with five months left to go. I was pretty ambitious about my writing schedule when I…
Accessibility in d3 Donut Charts
Hey friends! I got back from Toronto last week after speaking at a11yTO, one of the only conferences where I wanted to speak! I spoke about…
How Accessibility Taught me to be Better at JavaScript - Part One
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. Hey friends! Hope you’ve had a great week! This tweet I wrote a while back inspired me to…
Reflections on Year One of Blogging
Hey friends! Guess what?? It’s my 30th birthday! And because I really love to be poetic, one year ago today, I decided to launch A11y with…
Reducing Motion to Improve Accessibility
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. Hey friends! In this post, I am going to walk you through a newer media query (to me…
Create custom keyboard accessible radio buttons
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. Hey friends! Today we'll be creating custom keyboard accessible radio buttons! This blog post…
A11y Lessons I Learned when Starting a Podcast
EDIT: I resigned from the podcast in late August 2019. The accessibility lessons I learned are still relevant if you'd like to start a…
An Introduction to Accessible Labeling
Last week, I got a decent amount of folks who found the aria states blog post helpful. This week I wanted to continue with that and go…
An Introduction to ARIA States
Hey friends! Today’s blog post comes to you from my Patreon folks' poll. It’s a follow up from one of my previous posts about Demystifying…
My Blogging Editing Process
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. This post isn’t going to be a talk about speaking. I wanted to give you a glimpse because if…
JavaScript and Accessibility: Accordions
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. When I first wrote my post about JavaScript and Accessibility , I promised I would make it a…
Accessibility in d3 Bar Charts
Hey y’all! First off, I want to thank people for their patience with this post. I had a very stressful few weeks after I published my last…
Exploring Accessibility CLI tools
Happy Tax day (at least if you're American)! My last post was about my accessibility testing process. However, this week, I wanted to…
My Web Accessibility Testing Process
Hi friends! It’s been a hot minute since I wrote a blog post. If you follow me on Twitter , you know that I took a very strategic break in…
7 Ways to make your Tweets more Accessible
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. I wrote a tweet thread a while back where I started talking about ways to keep accessibility…
3 Things I learned transitioning from Remote to an Office
Back in October, I wrote a post about 10 things I've learned from working remotely , and it was a big hit. It actually made the top 7 posts…
Beginning to Demystify ARIA
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. If you didn’t know this already, I usually cross post all these on DEV . When I cross-posted…
a11y and JS - A Seemingly Unconventional Romance
This post was inspired by a few things. First, a few months ago Rian Rietveld announced she was resigning as the WordPress accessibility…
4 things that I always manually test
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. When I was a Drupal developer, a great deal of interest went into Automated Accessibility…
3 Reasons Why Accessibility is NOT an Edge Case
The primary question I get from developers is “How do I get my clients on board” or sometimes “How do I convince my boss that it’s worth…
Create an accessible dropdown navigation without JS
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. After cross-posting my last accessibility post about dropdowns on dev.to , I was reading…
2018 Year in Review
It's that time of year where I utter the same predictable phrase: "This year feels like it's been so long and yet so short!" As some may…
Create an accessible dropdown navigation
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. Want to see this in action? I created a 6 minute video collection! Go To My Free…
Create custom keyboard accessible checkboxes
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. I've seen a ton of designers make these GORGEOUS checkbox styles, but then you see them…
What I'm Grateful for as a Developer
Happy Thanksgiving to those of us in the United States! I've been in this industry now for about 4 and a half years. In the spirit of…
Learn about Dyslexia for the Web with me!
Content Warning: This blog post contains gifs. As I started this blog, I began to follow specific hashtags on Twitter. I learned that last…
Lessons in my First Month of Active Blogging
I soft-launched my blog the day before my birthday, announced it on my birthday (October 3rd), and now it's 4 weeks later. It's been a very…
Negative Impacts of Withholding Form Labels
Back in fall of 2016, I spoke for the first time about accessibility. While planning my presentation and looking for a relevant case study…
3 Simple Tips to Improve Keyboard Accessibility
I wanted to write a blog post about one of my favorite accessibility topics - keyboard accessibility! I test this so much without even…
Writing alternative text that matters
If I ask anyone what accessibility means to them, usually the first thing that they can identify is “Adding alt text!” All you have to do is…
Design Tips - Color and Accessibility
This topic has the potential to be a touchy one for marketing departments and designers. There have been plenty of approved designs I have…