Words & Other Ramblings
I've been writing about the web for years, mostly over on the Sparkbox Foundry. You'll find articles on accessibility, design systems, CSS, and the occasional deep dive into something I couldn't stop thinking about.
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Sparkbox Headings for Designers
November 10, 2025Designers can help developers build more accessible websites by separating visual heading styles from content hierarchy with a naming convention that communicates intent.
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Sparkbox Headings for Developers
November 10, 2025Developers can create accessible and maintainable websites by separating style from structure when implementing heading systems.
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Sparkbox The Accidental Design System
April 30, 2025We never set out to build a design system for NCSBN. It started as a simple pattern library for a single website, nothing more. But over time, it took on a life of its own, growing and evolving until, before we knew it, we had something that resembled the beginnings of a design system.
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Sparkbox Iterating on Atomic Design
November 01, 2024Atomic design is widely referenced when discussing design system organization, but is it the ideal solution for every modern system?
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Sparkbox What Do You Do When Burnout Doesn't End?
February 28, 2024Sparkbox Technical Director Kasey Bonifacio recounts her discovery of the seven types of rest as she learns to manage burnout in an ever stressful world.
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Sparkbox Performing a Web Accessibility Audit
November 15, 2023We all know accessibility is critical, but where to start? An audit will point you in the right direction.
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Sparkbox Building an Accessibility Testing Checklist
August 17, 2022When it comes to web accessibility, testing your work is just as important as the build itself. Learn how to efficiently test for web accessibility using a checklist based on WCAG success criteria and how to effectively deploy your team to tackle the testing.
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Sparkbox Understanding Accessibility: WCAG’s 13 Guidelines
December 04, 2020Video: Improve accessibility in your projects through understanding WCAG’s 13 accessibility guidelines.
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Sparkbox Writing Better Release Notes
March 26, 2018Release notes are a valuable way to communicate the work that has been done but writing them feels arduous. Kasey shares a simple tweak to stop dreading the task of writing release notes—and make them better at the same time.
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Sparkbox Manageable Utility Systems with CSS Variables
December 04, 2017Kasey shows the difference between Sass variables and new CSS variables. Now we have more options to simplify our code and condense classes.
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Sparkbox Design Systems Are Great But…
May 08, 2017The case for using design systems is strong. However, it comes with real challenges. Kasey shares how to navigate them and responsibly adopt a design system.
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Sparkbox Refactoring Legacy CSS
April 28, 2016As projects grow, they can become unruly. Kasey shares when it’s a good time to reign in the chaos and start refactoring.