It is not the first time we write about how to make the Joomla backend a nice place to work — for yourself and for your customers. In this article we collect and refresh practical tips and tricks, ordered from the simplest tweaks to the more complex backend menu changes.
Forms are a major area in accessibility testing, and ensuring they are fully accessible is essential. Clicking the wrong link on a website might be annoying, but submitting a credit card number in a text field to the wrong recipient can be costly and may even end up in court.
Buttons.
Yes, buttons. Have you ever noticed how often you click one? It probably seems effortless — after all, you can see the button, use a mouse, or tap a screen. But have you ever stopped to think about what it takes to make a simple button usable for everyone?
In the last article today's topic was already mentioned: the use of the keyboard on websites. It was found that none of the testing tools detected whether a bypass element was present. In this article, we’ll take a look at what the testing tools have to say about focus.
The accessibility tester strikes again! In this article, we introduce another "blind spot" of automated accessibility testing tools: the bypass – and it’s not what you might think at first.
In the last issue we showed how web designers can trick out the automatic accessibility checker tools in colour contrast. In this article we shed light on alt-texts.
Accessibility testing is a never ending story – this is not the first article in our magazine and will not be the last one.
They are everywhere, they are coming as fonts, sprites and SVGs. They have different forms and outlines. They can be super helpful - if you respect some rules for usability and accessibility.
The Pizza bugs and Fun event in February 2024 is over, Pizza is eaten and most likely digested, but Bugs and Fun persist. You might have caught the bug testing and enjoy the feeling of marking a test as successful. When one of your tests is crucial for the merging of a PR or prevents a catastrophe - how cool is that?
However, as a non-developer, you might not know how to continue the PR testing on your own, so here are some hints.
Not only the sites you produce with Joomla – but also the Backend where you and your customers develop and maintain the site can and should be yours. With a few hacks, you can make it even more yours.
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