Posts in: Accessibility
- 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]
- Presidential candidates homepages are mostly slow and inaccessible
- So says a recent report from Optimization Week. [14 Nov 2003]
- Recommended reading: Digital Web interview with Joe Clark
- Digital Web published an interview with accessibility expert Joe Clark. In the article, Clark discusses the need for a broader working definition of accessibility (accessibility ≠ good for blind people; there’s more to it), and common accessibility techniques. [5 Nov 2003]
- Doing good things: MACCAWS
- Making A Commercial Case for Adopting Web Standards is a group dedicated to doing what its name says. There are, incidentally, quite a few business reasons to adopt web standards. Jeffrey Veen of Adaptive Path offers five: Speed Development Simplify Maintenance, Increase Opportunity Open Up Access Options Reduce Bandwidth Costs Improve User Experience Read Veen’s article making the business case for Web [...] [7 Oct 2003]
- Accessibility validators
- While full accessibility is a hard goal for web developers to reach, validators can address the more common technical aspects of accessibility. Here is a list of validators, each with varying degrees of complexity and completeness. WAVE 3.0 (also available as a toolbar for Mozilla and Internet Explorer) Bobby Cynthia Says A-Prompt I personally find a combination of Cynthia Says and Bobby [...] [10 Sep 2003]
