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Joomla Community Magazine Authors
Christiane Maier-Stadtherr
Articles
Joomla Backend à la Carte
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.
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The Blind Spots of Accessibility Testing Tools - Labels and Input Fields
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.
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The Blind Spots of Accessibility testing Tools - Buttons
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?
The Blind Spots of Accessibility testing Tools - The Focus
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.
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The Blind Spots of Accessibility Testing - Bypass
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.
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The Blind Spots of Accessibility Testing Tools - Alt Text
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.
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Blind Spots of Accessibility Testing Tools - Colour Contrast
Accessibility testing is a never ending story – this is not the first article in our magazine and will not be the last one.
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They’re taking over the web world: ICONS
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.
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Pizza has gone - Bugs and Fun remain
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.
Joomla is Yours: create user avatars in the Backend Template Atum
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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Rock the house! 10 Golden tips for a successful Joomla presentation
We’ve all seen them, at JoomlaDays or at Joomla User Group meetings: the people giving talks and presentations, making it look like it’s super easy. What is their secret, and can you learn to present with flair and confidence? Read more and find out!
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Explore the core! Give your site a comfortable navigation
Open any website - where do you look first? In most cases you will first see a beautiful photo or graphic and with the next glance you will look for a menu with links to more pages.
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Explore the Core - Create articles on your Joomla 4 website
Once your Joomla website is installed, you’re ready to create your first content. Joomla has countless possibilities to make beautiful articles and a lot of ways to present your content. This is great if you know how to use them, but can be a bit overwhelming if you don’t. This article shows you how to add your first article and guides you through some of the possibilities you have.
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Explore the core! Structure your Content with Categories
Guess what’s the most important on your website? A beautiful template? Wrong! Nice colours and barrier-free? Wrong! Good SEO URLs? Wrong again!
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Explore the core! Create your pages with Menus
In our Explore-the-Core-series, experienced Joomlers explain the basic features of Joomla. In this article Christiane Maier-Stadtherr dives deeper into menus, menu-items and the things you can do with menus.
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