Software Engineering Blog, page 12
Notes on software engineering from the Atyantik practice.
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Vishal Prajapati
ARIA live regions: how to make screen readers announce dynamic content
How ARIA live regions work: pick role status, alert or log, predict aria-live and aria-atomic, fix a silent region and size a screen reader test plan.
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Janki Gandhi
Keyboard navigation focus management under WCAG 2.2: six stops, a test and a native fix for each
Keyboard navigation focus management under WCAG 2.2: tab order, visible and unobscured focus, widgets, modal dialogs and route changes, each with a test.
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Tirth Bodawala
Accessible multimedia under WCAG 2.2: captions, transcripts and audio description for every clip
Accessible multimedia under WCAG 2.2: what 1.2.1 to 1.2.5 ask of each clip at A and AA, with WebVTT captions, transcripts and audio description.
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Janki Gandhi
Accessible forms in HTML and ARIA: the four things every field must expose for WCAG 2.2
Accessible forms give every field a name, a hint, a state and a linked error. See the HTML, ARIA and WCAG 2.2 rule behind each, plus how to test them.
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Tirth Bodawala
ARIA roles for developers: every role is a contract you must keep
ARIA roles for developers, read as contracts: the states, children and keys each role owes, tabs worked key by key, and an HTML5 tags list.
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Tirth Bodawala
Color contrast accessibility under WCAG 2.2 and the ADA: ratios, checks and dark mode
Color contrast accessibility explained: the WCAG 2.2 ratios, what ADA color compliance means, and how to check every color pair in light and dark mode.
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Tirth Bodawala
Screen reader compatibility testing: a five-check loop for NVDA, JAWS, VoiceOver and TalkBack
Screen reader compatibility testing as a loop per component: pick pairings from survey data, run five checks in four screen readers, record each result.
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Tirth Bodawala
A web accessibility introduction: WCAG 2.2, the laws that cite it, how to make a website accessible, and a checklist
A web accessibility introduction: what WCAG 2.2 asks at Level AA, which laws cite it, how to make a website accessible, and a short checklist.
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Ishan Chavda
Headless CMS guide: what it is, how it works and when to skip it
A headless CMS guide for 2026: what headless means, how the content API works, what five CMSs charge a team of eight, and when to stay traditional.
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Tirth Bodawala
Monolithic vs microservices pros and cons: four inputs that decide
Microservices vs monolith for CTOs: the pros and cons of each, the modular monolith as the default, and one product priced both ways at AWS list rates.
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Ishan Chavda
CMS types explained: the six kinds of CMS and how to pick yours
CMS types compared: traditional, headless, decoupled, hybrid, DXP and e-commerce, with W3Techs usage data and a two-question test to pick yours.
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Dharmesh Patel
PHP features for developers in 2026: what 8.4, 8.5 and 8.6 add, and which version brought the rest
PHP features for developers in 2026: what 8.4 and 8.5 add, when 8.6 ships, the PHP floor of each framework, and which version introduced each older feature.
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