Rachel Andrew works for Google as Content Lead for Chrome DevRel working on web.dev and the Chrome for Developers site. She is a front and back-end web developer, author and speaker, author or co-author of 22 books including The New CSS Layout and a regular contributor to a number of publications both on and offline. Rachel is a Member of the CSS Working Group, and can be found posting photos of her cats on Mastodon as @rachelandrew.
Using grid layout to position items can sometimes result in a disconnected tab order, creating challenges for accessibility. While avoiding reordering has traditionally been the advice, this approach limits some of the powerful features of grid layout. A new solution is on the horizon! In this talk, I’ll introduce the reading-flow property and discuss the work being done by the CSS Working Group to address this issue.
| Building a Unified Web: A Fireside Chat | The Jam.dev 2025 | February 2025 | |
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| A solution for the visual and source order disconnect | axe-con | February 2025 |
| Browser Support And The Rapidly Changing Web | FITC Web Unleashed | October 2024 |
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| Layout and Reading Order | CSS Day | June 2024 |
| New CSS features you can use today | Revo.js | October 2023 |
| When New CSS Features Collide: Possibility and Complexity at the Intersections | Front Conference | August 2023 |
| What’s new on the web platform? | Code Europe Warsaw | May 2023 |
| What’s new on the web platform? | Code Europe Krakow | May 2023 |
| When New CSS Features Collide: Possibility and Complexity at the Intersections | CSS Cafe | April 2023 |
| What’s new in Responsive Design | WeyWeyWeb | December 2022 |
| When New CSS Features Collide: Possibility and Complexity at the Intersections | An Event Apart | December 2022 |
| When New CSS Features Collide: Possibility and Complexity at the Intersections | Web Directions Summit | November 2022 |
| What’s new in CSS? | SydCSS | November 2022 |
| Now and Next in Responsive Design | Web Unleashed | October 2022 |
| When New CSS Features Collide: Possibility and Complexity at the Intersections | An Event Apart | October 2022 |
| Interop 2022 | W3C Developer meetup | September 2022 |
| Interop 2022 | DevFest for Ukraine | June 2022 |
| What’s new in CSS? | Pixel Pioneers | June 2022 |
| Interop 2022 | CSS Day | June 2022 |
| Browser compatibility in an evergreen world | An Event Apart Spring Summit | April 2022 |
| Responsive patterns with subgrid | Web Directions Hover | April 2022 |
| New CSS with accessibility in mind | axe-con | March 2022 |
| What’s new in CSS? | DevFest North America | November 2021 |
| CSS Layout Workshop | Chrome Dev Summit | November 2021 |
| CSS layout from the inside out | State of the Browser | October 2021 |
| CSS layout from the inside out | Web Unleashed | October 2021 |
| How to understand CSS | An Event Apart Fall Summit | October 2021 |
| Coming soon to CSS | Frontend RheinMain | June 2021 |
| Understanding Display | Web Directions hover | April 2021 |
| Coming soon to CSS | Frontmen talk | April 2021 |
| How to understand CSS | An Event Apart Spring Summit | April 2021 |
| Grid, content re-ordering, and accessibility | axe-con 2021 | March 2021 |
| Learning CSS | Talk for Arts University Bournemouth | February 2021 |
| Coming soon to CSS | SmashingConf San Francisco | November 2020 |
| Coming soon to CSS | SmashingConf Austin | October 2020 |
| What’s New in CSS | Web Unleashed | October 2020 |
| Coming soon to CSS | SmashingConf Freiburg (Online) | September 2020 |
| Coming soon to CSS | SmashingConf Live | August 2020 |
| CSS News June 2020 | Fronteers Online Meetup | June 2020 |
| Now You See It: Understanding Display | An Event Apart Online Together | June 2020 |
| The CSS Layout Masterclass | Smashing Online Workshops | June 2020 |
| The Evolution of Responsive Design | Smashing Meets June 2020 | June 2020 |
| Hello subgrid! | Smashing Meets Day Two | May 2020 |
| Hello subgrid! | develop.BBC | March 2020 |
| Introduction to the CSS Working Group | XML Prague | February 2020 |
| Refactoring (the way we talk about) CSS | XML Prague | February 2020 |
| The Evolution of Responsive Design | Front End North | February 2020 |
| Learning to love CSS | c’t webdev | February 2020 |
| Who Designed This? Where Web Platform features come from, and how to get involved | CSS Working Group Developer Meetup, Jan 2020 | January 2020 |
| Learning CSS in 2020 | Arts University Bournemouth Talk | January 2020 |
| Building A CSS Layout: Live Stream With Rachel Andrew | SmashingTV CSS Layout | December 2019 |
| Now You See It: Understanding Display | An Event Apart San Francisco 2019 | December 2019 |
