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All code is built. Build what you can before you ship.

Every page request in the ResourceLoader pipeline benefits from compilation, minification, and bundling build steps but not every build step fits in the runtime space.

An Orca screen reader tutorial

This tutorial covers how to install, set up and use Orca on Linux systems, with sighted developers, product managers, and user experience designers in mind. Orca is a screen reader available on Linux which is being continuously developed as part of the GNOME project. It is probably the best choice to test screen reader conformance when developing on Linux.

How we contributed Paint Timing API to WebKit

The story of how we decided to commission the implementation of Paint Timing API, a feature that lets us observe web performance from an end-user perspective. This web browser feature tells us at what point in time content started to appear on the screen for a visitor.