Dynamically load fonts

Posted on 26th Aug 2020 in web

I’ve added a Dyslexia accessibility feature to my website which loads a Dyslexia-friendly font, woo!

This involved creating a small toggle function to turn the feature on and off, but when I reload the page it’s gone, so I had it bake a cookie so the function could trigger automatically on-reload. This still wasn’t enough I didn’t want every visitor to load the font, only users who click the toggle button, so I added a section to dynamically load the font.

Firefox-based browser add-on suggestions

Posted on 1st Jun 2013 in web

HTTPS Everywhere [GPLv3+] # Enforces the use of secure connections where known to be possible through the use of an updated white-list, this means where a website has the ability to deliver it’s bits to you over HTTPS(Secure HTTP) the add-on will tell it to. Browsing over a secure connection is intended to prevent third-parties, parties other than you and the server itself, from being capable of peaking into the connection and spying or tampering with the data. Read more →

Joe Heaton

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