Posts in: Accessibility
- Doug Geoffray: “From the Mouth of a Screenreader”
- The fine folks at YUI Theater present a lecture by Doug Geoffray on the current state of screen readers and accessibility. Part one Part two [29 Mar 2007]
- Recommended: “Internationalization Primer”
- Digital Web takes a holistic look at how to develop an internationalized, multi-lingual website. It focuses on back-end and template development as opposed to internationalizing mark-up. For more on internationalization, you can also check out the W3C Internationalization Activity group. [6 Jun 2006]
- Link dump: May 11, 2006
- Skip Link Pros and Cons Thoughts about whether your “Skip to content” links should be visible? BlogHer has launched an ad network Love the idea (and the women behind it), but did the featured advertiser have to be a zero-cal sweetener? Just seems so trashy women’s magazine-ish. Google Sidles Up to Social Search Google fires another shot across the bow [...] [11 May 2006]
- Link dump: May 10, 2006
- Some oldies. Some newies. All goodies. Accessibility statements and site viewing options Widgets that replicate browser functionality (like text-size widgets): Yay or nay? Writing a Good Accessibility Statement Tips on writing one. Short version: tell your users how the features benefit them. Related: Glaucoma.org Accessibility Statement. [Both Via Roger] Simple JavaScript Debugging Tips and techniques for debugging your JavaScript application. Design [...] [10 May 2006]
- Thoughts on writing effective alt text
- Trenton Moss, of the UK-based usability/accessibility firm Webcredible, writes some guidelines for writing effective alt text [4 Apr 2005]
- Stuff that’s inspiring me this morning …
- The Well’s conversation with Dan Gillmor. Trent Moss explains how making your site accessible improves overall usability. Via Corante, Adina Levin’s explains what’s new about this generation of social software. Also read Christopher Allen’s piece Tracing the Evolution of Social Software. Peter-Paul Koch discusses quirks versus strict mode when dealing with CSS. Elite Designers Against Ikea: I’m not 100% [...] [19 Oct 2004]
- To open a new window or not? 5 reasons to re-consider this web technique
- At the newspaper site I work for (ajc.com), our style is to open external links in a new window. It’s a pretty standard web convention. Yahoo! mail and Hotmail.com do it. Most newspaper sites do it. Heck, I’ve even done it on my own site. But based on accessibility standards and my own experience as [...] [14 Feb 2004]
- UsableNet’s Text Transcoder … New theme selector
- UsableNet recently released a Text Transcoder designed to eliminate the need for text-only versions of your site by dynamically serving text-only pages. Asking price? $999.00. Chump change if you’re a major institution, I suppose. But it is still a nice chunk o’ change. Want a cheaper alternative? Use style sheets Create a "blank" style sheet. Hide images and [...] [3 Dec 2003]
