October is National Cybersecurity Awareness Month (NCSAM) in the United States. Started by National Cyber Security Alliance and the Department of Homeland Security in 2003 it was conceived to raise awareness of the importance of cybersecurity.
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WebPageTest Speed Index
When testing for performance, WebPageTest is an invaluable tool. While the performance audit tab in Chrome’s Dev Tools tests a web page against Google’s performance algorithm and creates a score along with a list of opportunities to improve performance, WebPageTest offers an in-depth look at what exactly is happening when someone requests a web page from our server.
Continue readingAlt text in images
The alt attribute is mandatory. It serves several important accessibility purposes. That’s why it is the first guideline of the Web Content Accessibility Guide (WCAG).
We all have seen the most well-known example of the purpose of alternative text: a broken image. In order to make the original intention of the image accessible even if it can’t load the image the browser displays the text as an alternative.
Continue readingAdd a web accessibility statement
A web accessibility statement provides your users with information about the accessibility of your content. It shows that you care about accessibility and demonstrates social responsibility.
Center for Internet Security
Boyle Software, Inc. is now a member of the Center for Internet Security (CIS) SecureSuite®. This new partnership provides us access to multiple cyber-security resources including the CIS-CAT Pro configuration assessment tool, remediation content, full-format CIS Benchmarks™ and more.
Partnership with Contentful
We are happy to announce that Boyle Software is now an official partner of Contentful, the content infrastructure platform that allows content providers to easily create, manage and distribute content across multiple channels.
Authorize.net – Certified Developer
Boyle Software is now an official Certified Developer for Authorize.Net, one of the leading payment gateway services. Authorize.net is trusted by more than 430,000 merchants and handles over 1 billion transactions every year.
Lazy loading in Chrome Canary
In a good restaurant the food is usually served whenever you are ready for it. The waiter serves the entree after the appetizer. Same with the dessert, it will be served when the customer is ready for it to be consumed. Google Chrome soon will serve media in a browser similar to the way food is served in a restaurant. Via built-in lazy loading.
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Accessibility debugging with Chrome’s DevTools
If you care about Web Accessibility (I know you do) then some of the accessibility related debugging tools in the Chrome browser may come in handy.
Web accessibility at Boyle Software
For frontend developers the main goal these days is to make sure websites can easily be viewed on a mobile device. If the page layout is not responsive it becomes inaccessible (or at least difficult to access) on a phone or tablet.
But there are other (and often much more serious) accessibility considerations to be taken into account : making sure that web content is also accessible to people with disabilities.