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Question 1

If you have 5 different stylesheets, how would you best integrate them into the site?

Answer 1

• depends on needs of the website
• use a single stylesheet to reduce rendering calls
• concatenate multiple stylesheets using a build tool like gulp

Question 2

How many resources will a browser download from a given domain at a time?

Answer 2

Depends on the browser, it can vary from 5 to 8

Question 3

Can you describe the difference between progressive enhancement and graceful degradation?

Answer 3

Graceful degradation means building an application with a baseline of full functionality available in modern browsers and then taking the layers off to ensure it works with older browsers. Progressive enhancement is the reverse: building a website based on the functionality of an older browser and adding layers for more modern browsers.

Question 4

Explain what ARIA and screenreaders are, and how to make a website accessible.

Answer 4

Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) is a set of attributes that define ways to make web content and web applications more accessible to people with disabilities.