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Quick Tips for web developers and web designers

1 day ago

456 Berea Street: I spend a fair amount of time doing quality assurance of websites. This includes reviewing code (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), reporting accessibility and usability issues, giving tips and advice, and so on.In these reviews there are some things that keep coming up. A lot of them are pretty simple and basic things if you ask me. (Read More)

Topics: Accessibility, usability

Making Google Maps more accessible

2 days ago

456 Berea Street: It has become very popular to use the Google Maps API to add maps to websites. While the maps work fine for most users, unfortunately Google Maps does not by default work without JavaScript – when there is no JavaScript support, you don’t get a map.Fortunately it is quite easy (but not very common) to provide a fallback for (Read More)

Topics: Accessibility, Website Accessibility

Make HTML messages readable in Apple Mail

6 days ago

456 Berea Street: Long time readers may have noticed that I dislike receiving email in HTML format. It’s not primarily because HTML email uses HTML instead of plain text that I dislike it though.No, the main reason is less ideological than that. I dislike HTML email simply because it is often very hard for me to read, since for some reason m (Read More)

Topics: Accessibility, usability

Remember to specify a background colour

Nov 13, 2008

456 Berea Street: Jeffrey Zeldman recently posted Is your (website’s) underwear showing?, which is a reminder about one of my pet peeves – websites that don’t specify a background colour but have a design that relies on all browsers having a white background. When the browser background is set to something other than white, some sites look r (Read More)

Topics: Accessibility, usability

In my opinion: Disabled must be given the chance to learn

Nov 12, 2008

UK Disability Living: … higher education, but the shame is that only 17pc of students who are blind, visually impaired or deaf make the same jump. Only 15pc of those with physical disabilities attend. … Bookmark to:. (Read More)

Topics: disabilities, visually impaired

My WCAG 2.0 AAA Implementation

Nov 07, 2008

Beast-Blog.com: A while back I mentioned I made a AAA web site that conformed to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.0. The site was for California disability rights attorney, Lainey Feingold, who works primarily with the blind and visually impaired community on technology and information access issues. She is nation (Read More)

Topics: Accessibility, visually impaired

WCAG 2 and Usability articles lack subheadings

Oct 28, 2008

Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog: Below are two articles on web accessibility. Unfortunately, both articles are lacking subheadings, which would make them much more scannable and usable, and therefore better accessible (see Understanding WCAG 2.0 Section Headings).Organisation in the Spotlight - W3C: Global Standards Giant Gears Up For BattleWith the long-a (Read More)

Topics: usability, Accessibility

Accessibility in web design provides a high degree of usability

Oct 21, 2008

Accessibility in the News: Accessibility in web design provides a high degree of usability for people with disabilities. Mostly based on general design principles, with some specific extra facilities, accessible design ensures that you do not deliver a restricted or exclusionary message and therefore image. Full accessibility design guidelines are pr (Read More)

Topics: Accessibility, usability, disabilities