Widening the Web with ECMA-402: Our work on the Internationalization...
Inconsistencies across browser implementations have caused web authors and users headaches since the dawn of time (or at least Jan 1, 1970), but nowhere has that pain been felt more acutely than in the...
View ArticleOptimizing Scratch 3 Pen Blocks
Earlier this year, we shared our work on the launch of Scratch 3.0, a major version of the visual programming environment for children of all ages. The new version of Scratch marked a complete rewrite...
View ArticleTake the MDN Developer & Designer Needs Survey
Today, MDN announced their first-ever needs assessment survey for web developers and designers. The survey takes about 20 minutes and asks a variety of questions aimed at understanding the joys,...
View ArticleLessons Learned from a Year of Testing the Web Platform
The web-platform-tests project is a massive suite of tests (over one million in total) which verify that software (mostly web browsers) correctly implement web technologies. It’s as important as it is...
View ArticleContributing to the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide
We believe that inclusivity and accessibility are of utmost importance to the open web platform. One of the ways that we empower the full diversity of Internet users is by ensuring that those with...
View ArticleExperiments in Faster Scratch 3 Loading with Texture Atlases
One of the best parts of the Scratch community is the diversity of Scratch projects. Community members have used the Scratch programming language to create many different kinds of interactive...
View ArticleHow to scribe at TPAC
Next week is TPAC in Fukuoka, Japan. This is an annual conference for all working groups in the W3C to meet face-to-face. Naturally, there is a desire to have a record of what is said in these...
View ArticleIntroducing a JavaScript library for exploring Scratch projects: sb-util
Introduction We’re excited to introduce sb-util, a new JavaScript library that makes it easy to query Scratch projects via .sb3 files. This npm library allows developers (or even teachers and students)...
View ArticleThe ECMAScribes
Did you know that in the process of standardizing JavaScript, TC39 publishes notes for each of their regular meetings? Every other month, over 50 “delegates” convene to discuss the future of the...
View ArticleLaunching Test262 Results on MDN Web Docs
We are excited to announce support for report embedding on test262.report, along with a new MDN collaboration to bring up-to-date information about ECMAScript feature conformance to MDN Web Docs....
View ArticleBocoup & Open Standards: A (Very Full) Year in Review
We’ve had a very productive year making web standards more open, predictable, and inclusive. As our standards liaison, my job is to spot opportunities for us to do that work externally, and to see...
View ArticleInteroperability Testing for Assistive Technologies and The Web Platform
In 2018, we began contributing to ecosystem infrastructure for ARIA, the accessibility API for the web platform, with a project focused on regression testing for example patterns in the ARIA Practices...
View ArticleIntroducing the Web Platform Contribution Guide
Many people in the web development community, including many of us at Bocoup, were drawn to the web because it appears to be a diverse and inclusive technology platform. But, when we look around the...
View ArticlePath Forward: Our Commitment to the Movement for Black Lives
We’ve been quiet on here since last summer. We wanted to take some time to reflect on our engagement with the Black Lives Matter movement, and to advocate for it through various channels. As we prepare...
View ArticleImproving Wireframe Accessibility: A more inclusive Design process
Whether you are well-versed in UX Design or new to the field, you have likely heard the term “wireframe.” A wireframe is a low-fidelity visual representation of a website, application, or product that...
View ArticleTest262, Inside-out
Have you ever noticed how easy it can be to overlook small problems in everyday life? Some things start off as imperceptible but slowly intensify over time, and just like the apocryphal frog in boiling...
View ArticleHappy Global Accessibility Awareness Day! Resources for Getting Started with...
Each year, on the third Thursday of May, millions across the globe come together to acknowledge and celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), an initiative started by Joe Devon and Jennison...
View ArticleBocoup 2021 In Review
Our 2021 Over the past several years, we’ve been transitioning toward a more explicit focus on accessibility, inclusion, and justice on the web. Last year, we invested in growing our team, expanding...
View ArticleCrossed Wires: Tech and the Movement for Black Lives
I remember sitting at my dorm room desk and reading the news that Trayvon Martin’s killer George Zimmerman was a free man. Trayvon was a couple of years younger than me, he still had the chubby cheeks...
View ArticleBocoup and Interop 2022
In 2019, Bocoup, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Samsung, and W3C together conducted a survey for web developers called MDN Web Developer Needs Assessment. A key finding from that survey was that browsers...
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