Articles from Albéric Trancart

November 08, 2019Albéric Trancart13 min read

Web accessibility (a11y) can be a little disorienting for everyday developers. Here is a practical, down-to-earth guide with examples to help you make your websites more inclusive and comply with legislation. Why is accessibility important? There are three main reasons why you should make your apps…

June 25, 2018Albéric Trancart15 min read

Through my experiences, I encountered many fellow coworkers that found CSS code painful to write, edit and maintain. For some people, writing CSS is a chore. One of the reasons for that may be that they have never been properly taught how to write good CSS in the first place, nor what is good CSS…

December 03, 2015Albéric Trancart5 min read

A new major version is always exciting: when it comes to one of our favorite frameworks like Symfony, it’s Christmas come early for developers. But is is also worrisome. Will my application break? Will I have to rewrite half of my code? Don’t panic! We will go through the 3.0 major version changes…

October 05, 2015Albéric Trancart10 min read

CSS coding should not be a pain in the neck. At some point, most developers notice that they avoid writing CSS and that it has an impact on their efficiency and on the code quality, which is unacceptable. It recently happened to me so I decided to tackle this issue. I stopped, took a deep breath and…