Portfolio

This week, Congress introduced a bill that seeks to make digital accessibility obligations more explicit and ensure that accessibility law keeps pace with technology. I wrote a summary of the bill ...

I joined Alex Patterson and Brittney Postma on the CodingCatDev to talk all things accessibility!

I joined Dan Jutan on his Breaking Down the Web stream to talk about web accessiblity, and to provide an approachable introduction to getting started with testing and solving for accessibility. htt...

Jenn Junod is streaming her forays into tech on her livestream series Teach Jenn Tech. I joined Jenn to talk about web accessibility: what it is, who it's for, and how we can get started. https://w...

I joined Anthony Campolo on his inaugural "AJC and the WebDevs" stream, where we began to flesh out his streaming brand by building a template for social share cards. We also talk about the process...

I joined Brittney Postma on her stream to build a chat overlay theme with showmy.chat! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RA_MAQppvME

Building with accessible semantics from the get-go can give you expressive, meaningful style hooks for free. Leaning on those style hooks in your CSS selectors lets you reduce the number of moving ...

Data is integral to Eleventy sites, and the data cascade is a powerful tool for architecting your site — and yet, it might not always be clear where to put your data, and the relationship that data...

Eleventy Edge enables us to process our Eleventy sites and add dynamic content at request time. I shared what I learned about building a Wordle clone on the edge which serves zero clientside JavaSc...

I appeared on Todd Libby's Front End Nerdery podcast and chatted about semantics, accessibility education, Twitch streaming, and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8g_GRw4RFu8

I joined Josh Goldberg on his stream and gave the TypeScript ESLint project's site an informal accessibility audit. We talked through color contrast, skip links, high contrast/forced colors modes, ...

I was on Nick Taylor's stream demoing showmy.chat, an easy solution for plug-and-play Twitch chat overlays! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOTK5HdrTSc

I joined Claire Lipskey and Stephanie Eckles on Word Wrap to discuss the why semantic markup is important, from accessibility to SEO to developer experience and more! https://wordwrap.dev/episodes/...

Low-contrast text… 🔸 Makes up about 30% of automatically detectable #a11y issues 🔹 Is found on ~84% of the most popular homepages… 🔸 …with about 31.6 instances per page Check out how you can remove...

I joined Kate and Brendan on the PodRocket podcast to chat about getting started with web accessibility! https://podrocket.logrocket.com/accessibility

I joined m4dz and Georges Gomes on Backlight.dev's Coding Design Systems Twitch show to discuss how design systems can incorporate and reinforce accessible best practices! https://www.youtube.com/w...

Eleventy Serverless is a build mode for Eleventy, new in Eleventy 1.0.0, that enables you to build pages on request. I joined Jason on Learn With Jason to show off how Eleventy Serverless works by ...

This weekend, I built a Twitch bot that drop a link to a past stream or a blogpost at the command of me or any audience member. It uses Algolia to smartly search for the most relevant content based...

I joined Alex Trost for a Frontend Stampede stream and showed off my favorite static site generator, Eleventy. Join us as Alex and I build Galloping Gallery, a photo gallery for excellent horses, i...

I presented the Beginner's Guide to the Eleventy Static Site Generator at the ReactJS Dallas meetup! We covered templates, layouts, data, and hosting, all while building a site to showcase the meet...

Organized and hosted the React Podcast Discord server's first lightning talk event! The lightning talks given were: • Ferit Topcu on 5 Mental Models to Help In Your Career • Toby Baratta on Drink E...

https://www.learnwithjason.dev/better-screenreader-experiences-with-css

https://benmyers.dev/blog/aria-labels-and-descriptions/

https://benmyers.dev/blog/skip-links/

https://benmyers.dev/blog/rss-semantics/

https://events.lunch.dev/lightning/

https://benmyers.dev/blog/axecon-2021/

https://benmyers.dev/blog/eleventy-data-cascade/

https://fsjam.org/episodes/episode-31-fullstack-accessibility-with-ben-myers