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Writing Good Alt Text

Writing Good Alt Text

Jake and Surma tackle the age-old problem: what should you include in an image's alt text?

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Léonie's article → http://goo.gle/3krtzcz

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  10. Avoiding layout shift by putting the CSS in charge

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  12. Random paint effects

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  15. Season 8 trailer

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  17. From nothin’ to gzip

  18. Progressively loading images

  19. Conducting tech interviews

  20. AssemblyScript

  21. The big back button quiz

  22. Writing Good Alt Text

  23. Scheduling Tasks

  24. JavaScript counters the hard way

  25. Dithering

  26. Importing JSON - ABANDONED

  27. Web animation gotchas

  28. WebAssembly Threads

  29. Slashing layout cost with content-visibility

  30. 3.143 ways to synchronize data across documents

  31. Weak JavaScript

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  38. The best web feature of 2019: Part 4/4

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  40. The best web feature of 2019: Part 2/4

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  44. Push Notifications

  45. Is postMessage slow?

  46. Scope in JavaScript

  47. Handling updates offline-first

  48. Four silly browser hacks

  49. How we got into web development

  50. Changing web standards

  51. Solving Clickjacking

  52. But… why HTTP 203?

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  54. Share Target

  55. Context and Optimizations

  56. JAM Stack

  57. New Canvas Stuff

  58. Background Fetch

  59. Best web features of 2018: The Final!

  60. Best web features of 2018: Part 3/4

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  65. SVG Transform Box

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  70. JavaScript for-loops are… complicated

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  78. Web Dev Beginnings with Mariko Kosaka

  79. Accessibility with Rob Dodson

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  81. State of the Web with Ben Galbraith & Dion Almaer

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  128. Christmas Special

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