warning: this is my first post (and it’s ended up quite long)

As a front end engineer, accessibility is something that we should consider whenever building a component/feature on a site. It just clicked over this COVID weekend — that I could write an article about it.

The origin story

tl;dr I had to build a simple search component in a narrow space and it didn’t work well with too many results appearing in the drop down. I wanted to find a better solution, so browsed the web for inspiration.

On a recent project, we built a search component — it was nothing…