Category: Accessibility

  • A List Apart

    A List Apart has launched a new site design. They had a couple seconds of style-less content, and then boom, the new site was born. At first glance it is a 1000px wide, four column design based on ruby on rails. Take a look. New design. New structure. New server. New publishing system powered by…

  • Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0

    bobbyvandersluis.com | Unobtrusive Flash Objects (UFO) v1.0 A great article which explains a useful way to include flash content in your website without compromising standards.

  • WWW2005 – shameful name dropping

    I attended WWW2005 in Chiba, Japan, just outside of Tokyo. It was a fun conference. I met lots of great people, and saw some people I hadn’t in a while.

  • WYSIWYG Editor Accessibility Test Results:

    Allowing writers to contribute to the creation of accessible documents. The testing was based on the needs of non-technical content contributors; writers, graphic artists, editors, etc. The program had to shield the user from all the code and provide a simple usable interface. It is reasonable to expect writers to be able to update documents…

  • Why design accessible web sites?

    An accessible and non-accessible site can look exactly the same to a non-disabled user. It can be difficult then to understand what the fuss is all about. Why is it important to consider accessibility when designing and planning online assets?

  • Accessibility for Writers: Software Manuals

    One of the most important improvements that can be made to the accessibility of a site is a task that will often fall to writers.  Adding text to describe images allows blind and visually-impaired users to access your content, but writing it is not necessarily something that comes naturally.  The tips compiled here will help…