Join us for the last few Svelte Summit videos where you'll learn about i18n and preprocessors!

Svelte has been described as an “accessibility-first-framework”, yet its compiler warnings cover only a fragment of the issues at hand. In this talk, I’d like to explore how accessible Svelte really is and more importantly, have a look at what you can do to bridge the gap. Ideas include checking both automatically and manually for issues the compiler might overlook, like color contrast, keyboard accessibility and semantics.

Winners of Svelte Hack 2024 (runes-edition)!

A weekly Svelte update from February 2024 covering changelog highlights, community showcase featuring Paraglide JS for internationalization, and discussions about Svelte 5 progress.

A Svelte 5 changelog overview covering snippets, bug fixes, and migration guidance. Live coding of runes-based dynamic filtering plus exploration of effect, onMount, and reactivity features.

Matthias tweeted a 20 line of code i18n library with Svelte and it went semi-viral: https://twitter.com/h_i_g_s_c_h/status/1344223132308164616

Svelte includes built-in animations that makes it easy to slide, scale, and fly elements in and out of the DOM. However, you need to be careful to not trigger motion sickness in your users. I will go over which Svelte transitions could cause accessibility issues and how to respect user motion preferences when using them.

A demo on how to setup internationalization in a SvelteKit project using the lightweight library typesafe-i18n.

Domenik Reitzner had a dialog with his brave audience about the dialog element and how to integrate it with Svelte. He showed us the benefits of using the platform and what a11y(accessibility) benefits come out of the box, by using this HTML element.

Curious about Runes? Want to get your questions answered? Here what the team has been up to?

The video explains skip links, which are used to improve web navigation efficiency. Skip links allow users to jump directly to the main content or other key sections of a webpage when using a keyboard or screen reader.

This is a short introduction of the talk2svelte library which provides voice recognition and voice synthesis for Svelte, thanks to the Web Speech API. It allows to interact with a Svelte site by voice, like navigating or clicking on elements.

Inlang: a solution for internationalization in SvelteKit projects. The SDK and its tools simplify setup, language negotiation, and content management. This approach automates i18n processes, offering a user-friendly experience for developers and translators.

0:00 Introduction 0:20 Changelog - SvelteKit 1.22.6 1:59 Community Showcase - sveltekit-search-params by Paolo Ricciuti 22:32 Q&A - How to create accessible form error summaries

00:00 Introduction 00:30 Announcements - Svelte Summit 01:10 Runes Primer 13:17 Runes FAQ 19:20 Rune helpers and stores with Hunter 26:26 Runify demo and fine-grained reactivity with Paolo 35:00 The library maintainer’s perspective with Hunter 45:08 Poll: the kinds of applications we make 53:25 Paul proposes Runes be a compiler-based toolchain separated from Svelte, similar to RxJS 1:01:11 Everyone’s impressions of Runes 1:02:48 Tantei-Kun likes the $props Rune 1:07:32 Poll: everyone’s impression of Runes so far