Tuesday, October 25, 2011
CSS3 Image Styles is a terrific tutorial explaining how to use CSS3 and background images to do some very cool things. You can now read HTML5 for Web Designers by Jeremy Keith online. This is an excellent book, go read it. The site is built in HTML5. Look under the covers. I’d like to examine [...]
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Before and After Demonstration at the W3C site shows a site before and after WCAG 2.0 principles were applied to it. It’s all annotated so you can see what was done to make the site accessible. Great tool for educators. Speaking of the W3C, there is now a new community group forming – open to [...]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
I’ve been a bit distracted this week, getting organized to present a panel at the Southwest Conference on Disability. This is an ongoing conference that had never focused on web accessibility until last year when Sharron Rush from Knowbility, Inc. gave a keynote. She realized the folks there needed to add more about web accessibility [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
This weekend, I attended the Online News Association Conference in Boston. It was a great gathering of multimedia developers and those concerned with all things digital – quite a fantastic event. I had the opportunity to participate on a panel called “If I Were in Charge, I’d…” Proposals for the panel were solicited before the [...]
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Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Sitepoint recently announced a new section on the website called the HTML5 Dev Center. That leads me to remind you that I’ve collected all the best HTML5 resources on a site called HTML5 News. HTML5 News is updated almost daily with the latest information about HTML5 for designers, developers, and teachers. It’s a great resource [...]
Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The W3C issued a new editor’s draft of Media Accessibility User Requirements. The introductory paragraphs explain what it’s about. I’ve added emphasis. This document aggregates the requirements of an accessibility user that the W3C HTML5 Accessibility Task Force has collected with respect to audio and video on the Web. It first introduces a background on [...]
Friday, September 2, 2011
The ultimate responsive web design roundup at Web Designer Depot is a great resource. Tiered, adaptive front-end experiences from Paul Irish offers help in the quest to convince your clients that web sites don’t have to look the same in all browsers.
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
Create Dynamic Form Labels with ARIA is from Yahoo! Accessibility and is pretty clever. Why not watch a keynote address from Jeffrey Zeldman? This one’s from The Web Comes of Age – DIBI. HTML for Babies. Yes, it’s real. Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be web standards illiterate.
The CSS property border-radius is used to make rounded corners. A rule such as #twitter { border: solid 1px blue; border-radius: 10px; } Would round the borders of a an element with the id=”twitter” by the same amount on all sides. As with all CSS rules involving the box model, you could choose to round each [...]
Microdata and RDFa Living Together in Harmony from Jeni’s Musings is valuable reading for anyone interested in the semantic web. It’s a long article full of fine-grained suggestions. She concludes, Regardless, there are lessons that RDFa and microdata could learn from each other, and changes to both languages that would help developers use them on [...]
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