Dag-Inge Aas is CTO and co-founder of the video conferencing startup Confrere. Before joining Confrere, he was one of the first full-time engineers at appear.in and was Tech Lead for the premium service.
He has worked extensively with web technologies, infrastructure and backend, in addition to having deep knowledge of WebRTC. He deeply believes user experience is everything, be that in your product, or in the code you write. Having a bit of a sweet tooth, he can often be found hovering around the nearest cake celebration, hoping to grab a slice. Say hello on Twitter or check out his writings on Medium!
Accessible by Law! Generating Colors with JS and CSS Custom Properties
In Norway, all websites are required by law to be accessible. That has inspired us rather than constrained us when building our video consultation service. How could we make it easy for users to pick their own brand color, and still make sure they had sufficient contrast? Combining CSS Custom Properties with a sprinkle of JavaScript we were able to create a color palette and components that also meet the WCAG criteria (and learned a lot on the way).