Mobile: Home

Changes to templates, formats, and blocks

See the templates page for the list of changes to each templates, formats, and blocks.

Research and Philosophy

Accessibility

1. Simple Accessibility Testing - Marcy Sutton on how she tests for accessibility.
2. The Truth About Multiple H1 Tags in the HTML5 Era - Multiple h1s on a page are now recommended. They should be the first heading inside of "sectioning" elements, such as <section>, <article>, <header>, <aside>, etc.
3. "Click here" and other link text - Why "Click here" and "More" is bad.
4. Making Accessible Links - Best practices for accessible links.
5. Basic accessibility checklist

Performance

1. A baseline approach to performance audits - A simple starter for evaluating page performance

Baseline results from performance testing:

• Results from Web Page Test
• Results from Google Pagespeed Insights:

Mobile	Desktop
55/100	69/100

Should Fix:

• Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content.
• Leverage browser caching

Consider Fixing:

• Enable compression
• Prioritize visible content
• Optimize images
• Minify JavaScript
• Minify CSS
• Minify HTML

Philosophy

1. The Web Continuum - Jeremy Keith describing the continuum of support for browsers. Start with the modern browsers and create reasonable/rational fall backs for the browsers that are behind in functionality. Everyone gets the content, but not necessarily the advanced features.
2. Accessibility:

"Technology in general, and the web specifically, has enabled people with disabilities to do today what was either extremely difficult or even impossible twenty years ago. However, a gulf still exists between these users' experiences and what we as the designers and builders of the web assume is the way our projects will be perceived."