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Event Recap

axe-con Day Two

Accessibility
Team Insights
Ashley shares insights from talks attended on day two of axe-con.
Accessibility in Practice

Accessibility in Practice: Focus Visible

Design
Front-end Development
Accessibility
In this Accessibility in Practice, we focus on the visibility of keyboard navigation. Ha ha, get it?
Accessibility in Practice

Accessibility in Practice: Animated Content

Design
Front-end Development
Accessibility
In this Accessibility in Practice, we explore the best ways to handle animated content for all users.
Accessibility in Practice

Accessibility in Practice: External Links

Front-end Development
Accessibility
Drupal
This Accessibility in Practice discusses how to handle external links, along with a handy programmatic way to format them in Drupal.
Event Recap

World Usability Day 2020

Accessibility
Ashley shares insights from the Michigan State University World Usability Conference.
Module Roundup

Module Roundup: Content Access Control

Back-end Development
Drupal
There are a lot of ways to restrict viewing or editing capability for content on a Drupal 8 site. Here are some of the best solutions currently available.

Fluid Typography with CSS & SASS

Front-end Development
Since responsive websites became the standard, I've always toyed with fluid typography. The latest CSS functions have made it a possibility.

Reasons to use Drupal as the foundation for your site

Back-end Development
Drupal
Planning & Strategy
Drupal provides a secure foundation for any site that requires complex functions and relations, receives high peak or sustained traffic, or contains a large variety or amount of content.

Using predefined state lists in Drupal 8

Back-end Development
Drupal
There are a few options you have as a developer in Drupal to get a list of all States (Provinces, Countries, etc) without the need to manually hard code the list in your module code.

Minimizing Regret with Napkin Algebra

Back-end Development
Long-term regret is a problem we face with every architectural decision. We look at "napkin algebra" as a tool to model the outcomes of different scenarios and help us make a choice.

Kernel testing custom modules in Drupal 8

Back-end Development
Drupal
Planning & Strategy
Automated testing is sometimes hard to rationalize on a one off custom Drupal module, but there are times when it makes sense. Learn how to get past some of the obstacles.

Troubleshooting Drupal 8 Kernel Tests

Back-end Development
Drupal
There are a number of hangups a developer can run into when constructing Kernel tests for a custom module. My goal is to keep track of those options, as well as what to do about them in this article.

Mocking Network Requests in Drupal 8 Kernel Tests

Back-end Development
Drupal
Handling how your application or module handles network requests is one of the most valuable uses of Unit/Kernel testing. But you don't want tests running against an external service. I'll show you how to create mock requests in a straight and simple way.

Writing Testable Drupal 8 Services

Back-end Development
Drupal
Testing can be extremely difficult if service classes are not written in isolated with dependency injection. Here are some tips.