• Speaking of charts… When was the last time you had to use a pie chart? • If you are one of those people who have to give presentations right and left, then congratulations! • You are both in my personal hell… and also surrounded by pie charts. • Luckily, I think I haven’t needed to use them in ages, or at least that was until recently. • Last year, I volunteered to make ta webpage for a kids’ charity in México1. • Everything was pretty standard, but the staff wanted some data displayed as pie charts on their landing page.
Article Summaries:
- The article discusses a developer’s effort to create fully semantic, HTML‑customizable pie charts using CSS rather than JavaScript libraries. The author highlights the convenience of
conic-gradient()for quick visual output but notes its lack of accessibility and semantic meaning, which violates screen‑reader friendliness. To address this, the piece proposes richer markup that lists data values and labels, allowing screen readers to interpret the chart while still using CSS for styling. The goal is to keep JavaScript minimal, maintain semantic integrity, and enable easy updates by editing the markup alone.
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