Big thanks to Thomas Baker and Nicholas Tsim for their presentations at last nights FES. Good crowd turnout too. Glad to be back into the swing of things.

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Key takeaways from tonight's #FrontEndSheff:
✅ use semantic html (no more divs all the way down!)
👀 get your eyes tested

Thanks for another great talk @andycarter.dev!

It's important to be aware that accessibility is so much more than just screen readers. Surveys have shown that screen magnifiers are the most used assistive technologies.

@andycarter.dev uses browser zoom, screen magnification and browser reader mode to help him use the web.

This evening we're joined at #FrontEndSheff by @andycarter.dev telling us about his personal experiences navigating the web using assistive technologies.

Laurie is now showing us how to create an app from scratch using #Expo and #ReactNative. What a trooper.

"The fact you can be a *web designer* and produce a production-ready app is pretty cool."

Now for a history lesson… this may not have always been the case!

Kicking off tonight: @laurie.pitchin.app telling us how #React Native is actually awesome now 🌈

Thanks to Matt for a great intro to building Shopify themes! I'm feeling drenched in Liquid now ☔

We'll be back next month, keep your eyes peeled for details 👀

We might be starting out dry, but by the end of Matt's talk we'll all be soaked in knowledge about Liquid, the templating language used on Shopify 💧💧💧

After years in the testing 'trenches', @glenjamin.co.uk makes the case for #Playwright #QA testing. Now for a demo…

Our 1st speaker Charles Boisvert has a real 'glass half full' attitude towards learning to programme - as evidenced by his X-axis reading "ease of use", rather than "difficulty"! #FrontEndSheff

The new tracking protection in Chrome aims to make it easy to safely use third-parties and hard to do cross-site tracking, at the platform level.
@rowan-m.bsky.social at #FrontEndSheff

It's a packed room for tonight's #FrontEndSheff with
@rowan-m.bsky.social

Is HTML easy? Maybe, but mastering HTML is difficult.

Thanks for a great talk Andy!

And now for some lively debate - should we bring back XHTML compliant badges? Why don't people care about valid HTML?

#FrontEndSheff

A lot of HTML errors are caused by incorrectly nested elements. "It's completely valid to put the puppy inside the box, but it's not valid to put the box inside the puppy" -
Andy Carter at #FrontEndSheff

Well written HTML matters for accessibility, user experience, SEO and robustness. But the semantics can be confusing and a lot of sites still don't use sectioning elements like 'main' and 'header' or even h1, which causes accessibility issues.

This month's #FrontEndSheff has got started with Andy Carter talking about how easy (or not) HTML is.