Thursday, February 2, 2012
WCAG Next from WebAIM offers ideas that Jared Smith explained, “we have identified areas of the guidelines that could be improved or clarified.” Jared should know, he’s been helping people comply with WCAG since day one. The plain numbers about women in tech – the VCs is from Pleasure and Pain. Take a look at [...]
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The possibility that you may want media queries to work in older browsers does exist. We normally think of media queries as only being used to create responsive designs, which implies modern browsers on devices like iPhone or iPad. However, there is a JavaScript you can use if you need to support older browsers for [...]
Thursday, January 5, 2012
Two announcements from the W3C relating to accessibility are important news today. The first is a couple of new notes relating to WCAG 2.0. You can find links to the relevant documents here. The other announcement is the first draft of the Media Accessibility User Requirements. The W3C description of the media requirements document: “It [...]
Friday, December 16, 2011
The Hidden Nuggets of WCAG 2: When Not to Use Alt Text. Excellent article. Would be a great resource to send students to read. Constructing a POUR Website is from WebAIM. Six CSS Layout Features to Look Forward To. This is material from a talk on how the CSS Working Group is attempting to solve [...]
Monday, December 12, 2011
A new W3C web education community group is building and forming. You can join and participate here: w3.org/community/webed. The Web Education Community Group (CG) aims to evolve the Web and improve the overall skill set of the web industry by improving the quality of available web education resources and courses around the world. There’s a [...]
Thursday, December 1, 2011
Yesterday on Blue Beanie Day, Stephanie Sullivan Rewis announced a new web project on the blog at web standards project. Her post was called Beyond the Blue Beanie. Today I’m happy to announce a new project, put together by a group of very passionate web folks, that can enable your entry into the process of [...]
Wednesday, November 30, 2011
It’s Blue Beanie Day, the day on which we all show our support for web standards by wearing a blue beanie. Jeffrey Zeldman started this event several years ago. It’s been successful in getting all sorts of people to add blue beanies to their various avatars and standing up for web standards on a particular [...]
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The top 25 books for web developers and designers from .net is a good list to check to see if you’re keeping up with the latest. I noticed that several of the 25 are from A Book Apart. That led me to tweet this: Is there some sort of brain implant that would directly feed [...]
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Friday, November 11, 2011
Responsible Responsive Images brings out some points worth pondering. WordPress has added image gallery support. Here’s how to make it work. Can’t wait to find a reason to try it out.
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