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In today's lesson, I'll guide you through my approach to accessibility testing. We'll explore utilizing Google Lighthouse for automated a11y testing, delve into manual testing with keyboards, and learn how to emulate various media states, and vision ...
Why a11y is important to me as a developer As someone who suffers from chronic migraines, I am particularly sensitive to bright colors, which can trigger migraines. Navigating applications without a dark mode option can sometimes pose a bit of a chal...
Have you ever attempted to navigate a website solely using your keyboard due to a trackpad malfunction or simply by choice, only to discover that certain functions cannot be performed without a mouse or trackpad? Have you ever experienced a temporary...
This month has been exciting for me, I got into open-source via the contributhon by She Code Africa program, which made it less difficult for me to understand what needs to be done. I will be sharing a summary of my experience and currently merged PR...
Hello there, thank you for your feedback and comments during this series, We've covered the main hooks provided by React, in my last post we covered useReducer. We'll be looking at how to create a custom hook and some rules to follow. Let's jump righ...
I have been inspired by a lot of amazing stories I've been reading. As women, no matter how different all have similar experiences based on our gender. We've been treated like second-class citizens and when we speak up (especially in the part of the ...
Hi there, in my last post we covered useCallback in react, and now, we'll be looking at one last hook provided to us by the amazing React team: useReducer What is the useReducer hook? Before we continue to explain what the hook is all about let's tak...
Hello there, so we have almost covered the most used hooks in Reactjs. In my last post, we talked about the useRef hook. In this post, we'll be covering the useCallback hook. So let's start right away. What is the useCallback hook Use callback is a h...
In my previous post, we talked about useMemo, when we should use it and why we shouldn't overuse it. In this post, we will be looking at the useRef hook and the common use-cases. Let get into it right away. What is the useRef hook According to the Re...