Articles Tagged with Accessibility
- Improving Your Process: Maintaining Product Quality
- As a Web designer or developer, it’s important to make sure that your products remain top quality, regardless of any speed bumps you may encounter.
- Current Events: Captioning Sucks!
- Joe Clark and the Open & Closed Project have recently launched CaptioningSUCKS.com in an effort to spread awareness about the sad state of captioning online.
- Will Page Zoom Prove Relative Units Less Useful?
- With browser manufacturers beginning to default to page zoom, will relative units be phased out?
- Designing Web Navigation Book Review
- The navigation design for a website is a big deal. I surf the Internet, and it seems to me that everyone would be quite a bit better off had more Web designers taken the time to read a book like this. Site navigation is the primary way readers are able to interact with information presented in a website. Therefore, a site navigation deserves to have some serious thought behind it. Designing Web Navigation by James Kalbach is an extensive resource on this very subject.
- Can we do Better than Dropdowns? Is there even a Problem?
- Are dropdown navigations on websites a usability nightmare? Is there a better way to implement a comprehensive site navigation?
- Current Events: Accessibility Importance and Downloadable Fonts
- A recent legal settlement against Target legally requires the corporation to have an accessible website. This is great news! The latest nightly builds of WebKit now support the @font-face CSS rule; an interesting update to a very popular rendering engine.
- Designing the Obvious - Book Review
- Designing the Obvious can be put in same ring as the excellent resource Don’t Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug, Defensive Design for the Web by Matthew Linderman with Jason Fried, as well as Prioritizing Web Usability by Jakob Nielsen and Hoa Loranger.
- Is Manipulating the DOM for Presentation Acceptable?
- Is manipulating the DOM to include extra markup needed to desired design elements acceptable?
- Will the iPhone Affect the Mobile Web? How?
- What affect (if any) will the iPhone have on the Mobile Web?
- POSH: Semantic Markup for Driving Directions
- Driving directions offer a lot of semantic data. This article takes the semantics of driving directions into consideration and offers discussion about how to improve structural markup of directions.
- When Readers Choose to Use Their Own Style
- User style sheets can sometimes interfere with author CSS. Most commonly, users don’t create their own style sheet due to the requirement of a working CSS knowledge. Automated scripts adding custom style sheets for users changes things up a bit, however.
- Source Order Can Create Usability Disasters
- Source order is often overlooked, but can have disastrous effects on usability.
- I Need to Pay More Attention to My Headings
- Headings are semantically useful for accessibility, usability, and readability. They’re very important in outlining a document structure and thought should be put into their inclusion and use.
- My Development and Design Process
- Inspired by a post put together from Jonathan Snook, here’s a look into my development process.
- Site Testing with Text Based Browsers
- I can’t stress enough how important it is to keep tabs on yourself by properly testing your site in various environments. Cross platform, cross browser, and also just as important: cross technology. Many times, developers feel that if their code is valid, they’re good to go. Validity is very important, yes, but […]
- Standards, Semantics, Accessibility, and HTML Email
- You can love email, you can hate email. An opinion can vary from one extreme to the other when asking any group of people, but almost everyone using the Internet spends part of their day sending, receiving, and reading email. One thing that the majority can agree on is having a dislike for […]
- Making the Best of Video Using Flash
- Including any form of multimedia within a website has an ugly history behind it. Browser inconsistencies, required third party plugins, and the need for a proper codec made including multimedia a true problem. Even worse, it made it very difficult for any potential readers to successfully view your media. By far the […]
- Flash, JavaScript, and Providing Alternative Content
- Providing alternate content is becoming increasingly important given the rapid advancement in Web technologies. Take the extra step and provide graceful degradation for your applicable content.
- My Latest Take on Image Replacement
- The new design got me thinking about image replacement techniques and I think I’ve come up with a good technique for solving the problem of readers with images disabled and CSS enabled.
- Helping Your User With tabindex
- There are some tags and attributes within HTML that have been neglected and/or forgotten by many developers. There are many tags and attributes that you may have never heard of before, but could prove to be really useful in an upcoming project. tabindex Can Make Things Easier Many of the included tags and attributes within HTML […]
- Spread the Word About Standards
- Last week there was a great article written by Roger Johansson in which he wrote about Why Standards Still Matter. Shortly thereafter another article was written by Robert Nyman who also had a few things to say about The Web Standards War. Both articles give a refreshing look into the area of writing […]
- A Quick Look at charset Usage
- I recently took a sample from my list of bookmarks and checked to see whether or not people were using a charset in their documents. After seeing the results I thought maybe a quick overview of what a charset is may be in order. I also took into consideration the different types of charsets available to designers and developers and touched on the advantages and disadvantages of the two most common.
- Current Events: IE7 and Google
- Catching up on some recent changes to Internet Explorer and a new Google search which takes accessibility into account with search results.
- Calendar Semantics: Table or List
- Many times, when a developer first begins to use proper HTML and CSS for markup and style, he or she has a tendency to disown tables and avoid their use at all cost. While thinking that way can allow a developer to discover many creative ways of using the newfound power of CSS, it can put someone at a severe disadvantage.
- Giving Control with Accesskeys
- As a site developer, you truly have the most control over the presentation and usage of any project you’re working on. That is, unless your client feels equally. It is up to you how the navigation will work, where design elements are placed, and how the site content is conveyed to the user. […]
- Don’t Neglect the title Attribute
- If it is one thing that I find myself forgetting when initially marking up a document, it is to make effective use of the title attribute in anchors. I think the title attribute is one of those things that gets pushed aside due to the fact that it is seen as tedious by some. […]
- Semantic Image Use
- Semantic markup often holds more value than meets the eye. When practicing semantics with your markup, a byproduct is increased accessibility, decent base search engine optimization, and a boost to usability. The use of images in development is sometimes a gray area for new developers. The beauty of CSS is the ability […]
- Effective Style with em
- Using relative font sizes for Web design can be a great benefit to both the developer and the reader. Read about using em for font size.
- Google vs. Web Standards - Part 2
- In continuance of Part 1: How could Google better their situation? First, a step back needs to be taken and the overall picture needs to be dissected. What is Google offering? To put it simply, Google’s main founding purpose was to offer the best search engine on the Web. Looking further into […]
- Google vs. Web Standards - Part 1
- According to Google’s Company Overview: “Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful.” Google is arguably the most widely used search engine ever. According to the Nielsen NetRatings from SearchEngine Watch, Google accounted for 46.3% of search engine traffic in November of 2005. We can all safely assume […]
