Variable Order
A fascinating little tech demo by Roman Komarov that allows for clickable table sorting entirely in CSS. It’s a combination of inline CSS custom properties, the order
property, and calc()
.
This demo sparked a ton of conversation about accessibility, the crux of which is that the reordering is done only visually and not in the source. Which means that someone interacting directly with the source (a screen reader) might be mislead into thinking they’ve sorted the table when they …
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