A Nordic paint company Tikkurila’s new Endangered Colors collection consists of nine different colors, each representing an endangered animal species. As species go extinct, unique colors are forever lost. In addition to bringing attention to a global concern, a fundamental part of the campaign is to give tangible aid to the protection of threatened animal species: one euro is donated to the protection of endangered species with each sold package.
A Nordic paint company Tikkurila’s new Endangered Colors collection consists of nine different colors, each representing an endangered animal species. As species go extinct, unique colors are forever lost. In addition to bringing attention to a global concern, a fundamental part of the campaign is to give tangible aid to the protection of threatened animal species: one euro is donated to the protection of endangered species with each sold package.
A Nordic paint company Tikkurila’s new Endangered Colors collection consists of nine different colors, each representing an endangered animal species. As species go extinct, unique colors are forever lost. In addition to bringing attention to a global concern, a fundamental part of the campaign is to give tangible aid to the protection of threatened animal species: one euro is donated to the protection of endangered species with each sold package.
A Nordic paint company Tikkurila’s new Endangered Colors collection consists of nine different colors, each representing an endangered animal species. As species go extinct, unique colors are forever lost. In addition to bringing attention to a global concern, a fundamental part of the campaign is to give tangible aid to the protection of threatened animal species: one euro is donated to the protection of endangered species with each sold package.
In this week’s roundup, Safari takes on cross-site tracking, the delay between load and user interaction is greater on mobile, and a new survey says headings are a popular way for screen readers to navigate a webpage.
Let’s get into the news.
Safari’s tracking prevention limits web storage
Some social networks and other websites that engage in cross-site tracking add a query string or fragment to external links for tracking purposes. (Apple calls this „abuse of link decoration.”)
When people navigate from websites with tracking abilities to other websites via such „decorated” links, Safari will expire the cookies that are created on the loaded web pages after 24 hours. This has led some trackers to start using other types of storage (e.g. localStorage) to track people on websites.
As a new countermeasure, Safari will now delete all non-cookie website data in these scenarios if the user hasn’t interacted with the website for seven days.
The reason why we cap the lifetime of script-writable storage is simple. Site owners have been convinced to deploy third-party scripts on their websites for years. Now those scripts are being repurposed to circumvent browsers’ protections against third-party tracking. By limiting the ability to use any script-writable storage for cross-site tracking purposes, [Safari’s tracking prevention] makes sure that third-party scripts cannot leverage the storage powers they have gained over all these websites.
Tip: If your website is popular enough to be included in the Chrome UX Report, you can check your site’s mobile vs. desktop FID data on PageSpeed Insights.
Screen reader users navigate web pages by headings
According to WebAIM’s recent screen reader user survey, the most popular screen readers are NVDA (41%) and JAWS (40%) on desktop (primary screen reader) and VoiceOver (71%) and TalkBack (33%) on mobile (commonly used screen readers).
When trying to find information on a web page, most screen reader users navigate the page through the headings (<h1>, <h2>, <h3>, etc.).
The usefulness of proper heading structures is very high, with 86.1% of respondents finding heading levels very or somewhat useful.
Tip: You can check a web page’s heading structure with W3C’s Nu Html Checker (enable the „outline” option).
