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Automate your Drupal accessibility testing with aXe and NightwatchJS

Automated accessibility tools are only one part of ensuring a website is accessible, but it is a very simple part that can catch a lot of really easy to fix issues. Issues that when found and corrected early in the development cycle, can go a long way to ensuring they don’t get compounded into much larger issues down the track.

Rikki BochowFront end Developer

Decoupling the model from Drupal

Back in the Drupal 6 days, I built the BOM Weather Drupal module to pull down weather data from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) site, and display it to users.

We recently had a requirement for this in a new Drupal 8 site, so decided to take a more modern approach.

Kim PepperCo-Founder & Tech Director

Patch Drupal core without things ending up in core/core or core/b

If you've ever patched Drupal core with Composer you may have noticed patched files can sometimes end up in the wrong place like core/core or core/b. Thankfully there's a quick fix to ensure the files make it into the correct location.

Saul WillersSenior Developer

Containerized Databases for Developers

Announcing MySQL Toolkit, a set of commands for sanitising, packaging and deploying MySQL images.

Nick SchuchOperations Lead

A Review: Web Directions Design Leaders and Design 2018

Web Directions Design was held over three days in April 2018 with great presentations spanning a broad range of topics across the design industry. Some were focused on emerging technologies such as eye tracking, Blockchain and voice UI, others on the importance of research and ethics in design.

Richard SisonUser Experience Lead

Making your Drupal 10 kernel tests fail when there is an exception during cron

Several times in the past I've been caught out by Drupal's cron handler silently catching exceptions during tests.

Your test fails, and there is no clue as to why.

Read on to find out how to shine some light on this, by making your kernel tests fail on any exception during cron.

Lee RowlandsSenior Developer

Bare Templates: Removing Unnecessary Markup in Twig files

In most of the projects we build, the HTML markup provided by core just gets in the way. There is way too many wrapper divs. This can cause issues when trying to create lean markup that matches what is produced in a generated styleguide.

In this post, I'll introduce you to the concept of bare templates, and how you can remove unnecessary markup from your Twig templates.

Pasan GamageDrupal Developer

Configuration Override Inspector: Removing the Config Confusion

Since the release of Drupal 8, it has become tricky to determine what and where override configuration is set.

Here are some of the options for a better user experience.

Daniel PhinDeveloper

Creating a custom LinkIt matcher plugin

In one of our recent projects, our client made a request to use LinkIt module to insert file links to content from the group module. However, with the added distinction of making sure that only content that is in the same group as the content they are editing is suggested in the matches.

Here’s how we did it.

Pasan GamageDrupal Developer