ARIA is Accessible Rich Internet Applications, a set of standards under development by the W3C. It’s part of the WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative). ARIA provides ways to describe roles supported by content. Roles include such things as “menu,” “treeitem,” “slider,” and “progressmeter,” Roles can also describe structure, with roles like “article,” “heading,” “complementary,” and “rowheader.” [...]
There was some discussion about HTML5 document outline in the comments to my recent post HTML5: the new hgroup element. I thought the topic deserved a post of its own. We’re all familiar with the DOM, that treelike structure that outlines the contents of an HTML document. Here’s a snippet of a DOM tree as [...]
Jeffrey Brown’s presentation at the WE Rock Tour event in Chattanooga. How to rock web education in your classroom. Wish I could embed the video here but there’s no option for that. Educators will be interested in watching it. Web Education Rocks!
The W3C has a new validator at validator.w3.org/unicorn they are calling a “unified” validator. Unified because it checks HTML (including HTML5), CSS, and RSS feeds. The validator at validator.nu also checks HTML5, and can be set to check for ARIA roles as well. Introduction to Keyboard Maestro from ATMac has a discount offer good through [...]
Etsy is hiring. Like any web-based company, they are advertising the job openings on the Internet. Maybe you aren’t familiar with Etsy. You need to know that it is a marketplace for handmade and vintage items–a community of creative people. That’s important to keep in mind. Etsy is advertising for coders and programmers and database [...]
Color contrast is a major accessibility issue on a web page. The greater the amount of contrast, the better the readability is for a page. The most contrast you can get is black text on a white background. Things go downhill from there. The degree of readability loss with colors other than black and white [...]
When can I use provides compatibility tables for features in HTML5, CSS3, SVG and other upcoming web technologies. Very useful. Ning Partners with Pearson to Sponsor Free Network Access for educators. Good news for educators. “Ning is announcing that Pearson, a education-focused publishing company, is sponsoring network costs for Ning Mini platforms for educators come [...]
One of many changes in forms that HTML5 is promising involves required form fields. In HTML 4 or XHTML, some scripting is needed to create a required form field. With HTML5, there is a new attribute available for required form controls. The attribute is required. The browser or user agent will check on this and [...]
There’s a new version of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in the works—CSS3. With this new set of rules for styling your blogs and web pages, you can do things that previously could only be done with images. One bit of magic that you can do with a CSS style rule now is make rounded corners. [...]
The hashtag to follow the Penn State web conference ongoing today and tomorrow is #psuweb10. The conference site is the place to watch for other reports from the conference. The third in a series of PHP posts by Lorna Jane Mitchell is up at Think Vitamin. Each has a slightly different focus on PHP, with [...]
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