Font Italics: Improving Accessibility with Best PracticesArticle contains
  1. Are italic fonts always inaccessible?
  2. The impact of italic fonts on web accessibility
  3. Comparing three font families for readability: OpenDyslexic 3, Arial, and Tahoma
  4. Best practices for using italic fonts in web accessibility
  5. A summary of italic fonts and web accessibility
Create a self-signed SSL certificate for Node.js on MacOSArticle contains
  1. Generate a Self-Signed SSL Certificate for Node.js on MacOS (with Code Examples)
  2. Inspecting Node.js code
The hidden potential of table captions and summaries in SEO strategiesArticle contains
  1. Understanding the Importance of Table Captions and Summaries in SEO Strategies
  2. The Purpose and Benefits of Table Captions and Summaries
  3. Adding Captions and Summaries to Your Tables: A Step-by-Step Guide
  4. Customizing Table Caption Positioning for Better Readability
  5. How Table Captions and Summaries Boost SEO Performance
  6. Final Thoughts and Best Practices for Table Captions and Summaries
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The hidden potential of table captions and summaries in SEO strategies

Table captions and summaries can help with SEO by providing context and information about the table’s content, making it easier for search engines to interpret and index the table. Captions and summaries provide information that can help users find, navigate, and understand tables.

The caption and summary for a table are important to the search engine because they allow the search engine algorithms to better understand the data in the table.

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Bing SEO Optimization: A Comprehensive Guide to Improve Your Website's PerformanceArticle contains
  1. Bing SEO Advantages
    1. Lower Competition
    2. Different Ranking Factors
    3. Bing's User Base
      1. All demographics
    4. Bing Powers Other Search Engines
    5. Voice Search and Microsoft Products
  2. Ranking Factors for Bing SEO
    1. On-Page SEO
    2. Exact Keyword Matches
    3. User Experience
    4. Quality Content
    5. Backlinks
    6. Social signals
    7. Multimedia
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  4. IndexNow technology
  5. Bing URL Submissions WordPress Plugin
  6. Bing Webmaster Tools
  7. An example of a benefit
  8. Bing common issues and potential solutions
    1. The site's favicon is not displayed in Bing search results
    2. Why is the website not ranked on Bing?
  9. Final words
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Bing SEO Optimization: A Comprehensive Guide to Improve Your Website’s Performance

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming the way we search and find information online. Bing Microsoft’s search engine is leveraging AI to deliver more relevant, personalized and engaging results to its users. As a result, Bing is gaining popularity and market share.

Despite Google’s dominance in search engines, alternatives are out there. Understanding Bing SEO techniques can help you get more traffic to your content.

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Detect browser zoom levelArticle contains
  1. Differentiating pinch zooming and text scaling
  2. Determining the text zoom level in a browser
    1. Method 1: using outerWidth and innerWidth properties
    2. Method 2: using outerWidth and innerWidth properties with different calculations
    3. Method 3: using screen.width and window.innerWidth properties
    4. Method 4: using window.devicePixelRatio property
    5. Final code
  3. Identifying the pinch zoom level in a browser
  4. Practical example of detecting browser zoom levels
Hiding a text but making it accessible to a screen readerArticle contains
  1. Making hidden text accessible to screen readers: a guide
    1. Notes
  2. Difference between CSS class .visually-hidden and .sr-only
  3. Accessibility and Hidden Text: Can Screen Readers Detect It?
  4. How visibility: hidden affects screen readers
  5. Is there a way to test whether the hidden text is actually being read by screen readers after applying the .visually-hidden class?
  6. Why hide text from sighted users?
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Hiding a text but making it accessible to a screen reader

Accessible hiding allows an element to be visually hidden while remaining accessible to assistive technologies such as screen readers. The approach is to apply a CSS class to the element that should not be shown.

There are several solutions for this type of CSS class, but we recommend following styles that cover hiding elements and optionally giving the ability to show the element when the element receives the focus or contains an element that has received focus. Useful for Skip to the main content links. See Adding a link at the top of each page that goes directly to the main content area.

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The key to agile accessibility: Effective measurement of what mattersArticle contains
  1. Why should you track the performance of your agile accessibility efforts?
  2. What should you track to see if your agile approach to accessibility is effective?
  3. What are some common myths about accessibility in agile development?
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The key to agile accessibility: Effective measurement of what matters

Agile accessibility is the incorporation of accessibility principles and practices into the agile software development methodology.

Ensuring accessibility is an a constant and iterative process throughout the development cycle meaning making sure that software and web applications are designed and developed with accessibility in mind from the very beginning.

Tracking accessibility KPIs is a critical step in ensuring that your digital products are accessible to all users.

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Sass with RTL and LTR support: creating multilingual websitesArticle contains
  1. Understanding Sass with RTL and LTR Support
  2. Key definitions and explanations
  3. A screenshot of a page with right-to-left content
  4. How to implement RTL and LTR support in Sass
  5. Changing the locale in Chromium-based browsers
  6. Tips and tricks for managing bi-directional text
    1. Time
    2. Parentheses
  7. Additional resources for managing bi-directional text
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Sass with RTL and LTR support: creating multilingual websites

Sass with RTL and LTR support isn’t available out of the box, but it can be done through simple Sass @mixin and @include rules that can be used across all Sass files.

RTL stands for Right-to-Left. It is a writing direction used in languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, and Persian. Supporting both right-to-left (RTL), more often bi-directional (BiDi), and left-to-right (LTR) representations of Web pages can be a challange.

Note that you can also achieve the same with Less (which stands for Leaner Style Sheets).

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WCAG 2.2: New Web Accessibility Guidelines for Improved User ExperienceArticle contains
  1. WCAG 2.2: what's new
  2. Summary
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WCAG 2.2: New Web Accessibility Guidelines for Improved User Experience

Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 was published as a W3C Recommendation web standard on October 5, 2023.

According to the World Wide Web (W3) site:

WCAG 2.2 was initiated with the goal to continue the work of WCAG 2.1: Improving accessibility guidance for three major groups: users with cognitive or learning disabilities, users with low vision, and users with disabilities on mobile devices.

This is huge news for anyone who creates websites, digital services, or mobile applications, or if you simply care about making the internet more accessible in general.

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Solution to "Type 'FileList' must have a '[Symbol.iterator]()' method that returns an iterator"Article contains
  1. Solution to the error Type 'FileList' must have a '[Symbol.iterator]()' method that returns an iterator
  2. Notes