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Languages — Automating Screen Reader Testing On macOS Using Auto VO — Smashing Magazine

Automating Screen Reader Testing On macOS Using Auto VO — Smashing Magazine

Automated testing is an important part of any software project, including testing for accessibility. There are already tools for linting and integration testing accessibility, but what about end-to-end testing with real assistive technology? Since I hadn’t seen this before, I set out to build Auto VO, a driver for the VoiceOver screen reader.

CCCameron CundiffCameron Cundiff·June 23, 2021Languages
Performance — Vercel: Series C funding announcement

Vercel: Series C funding announcement

Vercel has added an additional $102 million of investment at a valuation greater than $1BN. This is a major milestone for our company, customers, and community in our mission to build a faster web, together.

VVercel·June 23, 2021Performance
Engineering — Sudan's exam-related Internet shutdowns

Sudan's exam-related Internet shutdowns

To prevent cheating in exams many countries restrict or even shut down Internet access during critical exam hours. I wrote two weeks ago about Syria having planned Internet shutdowns during June, for exams. Sudan is doing the same thing and has had four shutdowns so far.

JGJohn Graham CummingJohn Graham Cumming·June 22, 2021Engineering
Frontend — inherit, initial, unset, revert

inherit, initial, unset, revert

There are four keywords that are valid values for any CSS property (see the title). Of those, day to day, I'd say I see the inherit used the most. Perhaps

CCChris Coyier·June 22, 2021Frontend
Frontend — Using Custom Elements in Svelte

Using Custom Elements in Svelte

Svelte fully supports custom elements (e.g. <my-component>) without any custom configuration or wrapper components and has a perfect score on Custom

GRGeoff RichGeoff Rich·June 22, 2021Frontend
SRE & Ops — Consolidating Facebook storage infrastructure with Tectonic file system

Consolidating Facebook storage infrastructure with Tectonic file system

What the research is: Tectonic, our data center scale distributed file system, enables better resource utilization, promotes simpler services, and requires less operational complexity than our previous approach. Our previous storage infrastructure consisted of a set of use-case specific storage systems. Clusters, or instances of these storage systems, used to scale to tens of petabytes. […] Read M

MEMeta Engineering·June 21, 2021SRE & Ops
AI & ML — Meet Kats — a one-stop shop for time series analysis

Meet Kats — a one-stop shop for time series analysis

What it is: A new library to analyze time series data. Kats is a lightweight, easy-to-use, and generalizable framework for generic time series analysis, including forecasting, anomaly detection, multivariate analysis, and feature extraction/embedding. To the best of our knowledge, Kats is the first comprehensive Python library for generic time series analysis, which provides both classical […] Rea

MEMeta Engineering·June 21, 2021AI & ML
Frontend — Image To Text Conversion With React And Tesseract.js (OCR) — Smashing Magazine

Image To Text Conversion With React And Tesseract.js (OCR) — Smashing Magazine

Do you have to process data manually because it is served through images or scanned documents? An image-to-text conversion makes it possible to extract text from images to automate the processing of texts on images, videos, and scanned documents. In this article, we look at how to convert an image to text with React and Tesseract.js(OCR), preprocess images, and deal with the limitations of Tessera

AOAyobami OgundiranAyobami Ogundiran·June 21, 2021Frontend
Design & UX — An Alternative Voice UI To Voice Assistants — Smashing Magazine

An Alternative Voice UI To Voice Assistants — Smashing Magazine

Voice assistants are currently the most popular use case for voice user interfaces. However, because voice assistants give feedback by talking to the user, assistants can only solve simple user tasks such as setting an alarm or playing music. In order for voice user interfaces to really break through, feedback to the user must be visual instead of auditive.

OPOttomatias PeuraOttomatias Peura·June 18, 2021Design & UX
Frontend — Client-Side Routing In Next.js — Smashing Magazine

Client-Side Routing In Next.js — Smashing Magazine

Next.js has a file-based routing system in which each page automatically becomes a route based on its file name. Each page is a default exported React component from the pages directory that can be used to define the most common route patterns. This article will guide you through almost everything you need to know about Routing in Next.js and point you in the direction of related topics and concep

AAAdebiyi AdedotunAdebiyi Adedotun·June 18, 2021Frontend