456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 24/11/2009
If you haven't added CSSquirrel to your list of regular reads, you should. Among other things, the Squirrel (Kyle Weems) turns topics like the sometimes hotly debated HTML 5 into enjoyable comics . Anyone who follows or takes the slightest interest in the development of HTML 5 or the web in general should find his comics and their associated blog posts worthwhile. Some of them may also make you laugh...
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
In An Early Look At IE9 for Developers , Dean Hachamovitch (General Manager, Internet Explorer) reveals some of the news in the next version of Internet Explorer. Better JavaScript performance, improved standards support (border-radius and CSS 3 selectors are mentioned), and better text rendering are all good. I would really like to see CSS 3 support on par with that of other browsers, as well as...
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Looking for input from screen reader users with regards to the usefulness of the summary attribute for data tables and the information provided in it. Read full post Posted in Accessibility , HTML 5 .
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Vendor-specific extensions, even if written according to the CSS 2.1 grammar, use property names and values that are not defined in the CSS specification and are invalid. Read full post Posted in CSS , Web Standards .
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The web developer tool for Safari and other WebKit-based browsers has just received a number of improved and new features worth checking out. Read full post Posted in Browsers , Coding .
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
There appears to be no single solution to heading structure in HTML that fits all situations, but as I see it there are two choices. Read full post Posted in (X)HTML , Accessibility .
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Thank you, and other modern browsers like Safari and Opera, for changing the Web. Read full post Posted in Browsers .
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Job listing site Authentic Jobs has been redesigned, realigned, retooled and relaunched. Read full post Posted in Job openings .
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The new W3C website has a new and very good summary of the why, what, and how of Web accessibility. Read full post Posted in Accessibility , Web Standards .
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The results from WebAIM's October 2009 screen reader user survey have been posted. Some results are expected while others can be a bit surprising. Read full post Posted in Accessibility .
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 28/10/2009
When using HTML tables to mark up tabular data, remember to use th elements for cells that provide header information for rows or columns. In addition to using th elements for header cells, you should also use the scope or headers attributes to tell user agents, primarily screen readers and other assistive technology, which header cells provide header information for any given data cell. Explicitly...
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 26/10/2009
In my experience it can be hard to make people understand that colour blindness can actually cause real problems for real people on the web. Sometimes when I point out that the colour combinations used in a design can make it hard or even impossible for some people to use a website properly, the response I get is “Well it looks fine to me and the other people I have asked, so I don’t think...
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
The Lightbox effect is showing up pretty much everywhere on the web these days. There are approximately one million different implementations that basically do the same thing: when the user clicks on an image, the screen is dimmed and a larger version of the image is displayed until the user closes it by clicking a ”Close” link or icon. Many people love this effect, and it definitely can...
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
In March 2009 the W3C launched a beta version of their main website, looking for feedback and contributions. On October 13, the new World Wide Web Consortium website was launched . I like it so far. Visually it’s a light, pretty minimal design that lets the content speak for itself. Ironically, as has been pointed out in the comments to the W3C Blog post W3C Site Launch , the CSS used does not...
456 Berea Street (Free subscription) | 13/10/2009
A few months ago I emphasised the importance of not making things difficult for people who do not use a mouse by removing the outline from links and form controls . If leaving the outline property at its default is not an option for you, perhaps the technique Patrick Lauke describes in Better CSS outline suppression could work. It’s so simple I can’t believe I haven’t heard or thought...
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