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The Index issue #202

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The Index — 16 October 2026 — View/share online

Tiny Little Office

This is really smart. It's a word processor, along with other common office software like spreadsheets, but it's completely URL powered.

Introducing the Accessible Components Library

You could not be in better hands than with TetraLogical and they've produced a really good collection of common components, all with thorough documentation, accessibility requirements and testing scenarios.

we were online

Something we've certainly noticed about this particular morale-draining era is there seems to be a real drive to create websites centered around a shared human experience and long may it continue.

What 10,000 home pages put in their head

So much about web performance is linked to what's in your <head> which this article (and very useful looking tool) breaks down well.

Study explores how AI use affects performance on math and reasoning tasks

A worrying read for fans of healthy cognition.

A handful of reasons JavaScript won’t be available

Here's one from the Piccalilli archives that you might have missed to wrap up this issue.

P.S. this is a good website from personalsit.es.

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Until the next issue, take it easy 👋
Andy

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