vdebolt, Author at Web Teacher

Useful Links: WCAG, by the numbers, mobile development

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 the numbers in venture capital firms and draw your own conclusions.

On Mobile Web Development argues for letting the dust settle on the specs before implementing the new shiny. And to remember that there’s more than iOS in the mobile sphere.

Facebook IPO – Infographic

Does that make you nervous? I’ve recently been reading about how large corporations manage to influence government, elections, lawmakers, and even laws with their vast corporate money. Now Facebook, with its huge database of information about each of its users, is going to join the ranks of corporate influencers. Privacy and ad targeting remain a concern to me.

Useful links: Responsive bookmarklet, JAWS11, Sony Bloggie, Fluid Grid, Twitter in HS

There’s a tool for a simple responsive design test that works in your browser. It’s also available in a bookmarklet.

JAWS 11 and IE 9. Tests by DingoAccess.

Sony Bloggie Live. Take your video and broadcast it live via wifi. Imagine what we will see coming from tech conferences now . . .

If your fluid grid was 1000px, the math for a responsive design would be a whole lot easier. You can download the PSD file.

20 Innovative Ways High Schools are Using Twitter. Some of these ideas are very interesting.

HTML5 News Resource

I invite you to follow HTML5 News on Scoop.it! You’ll find tutorials, discussions, books, videos, and more. Everything of interest that relates specifically to HTML5 will show up here. You can use this resource for learning, teaching, or keeping up with what’s happening in the web design world.

Browser Support for new HTML5 Structural Elements

The new structural elements in HTML5 include section, article, aside, hgroup, header, footer, nav, figure, figcaption, time, and mark.

First, let’s look at support in Internet Explorer. Starting in version 9 of IE, there is support for all the new elements. Versions prior to that provided no support, not even partial.

Other browsers have been supporting these elements for some time. Firefox support extends back to version 6. Firefox is currently at version 9. Chrome, now at version 16, has supported these HTML5 elements since version 13. Safari provided partial support before version 5. Full support began in version 5. Safari’s current version is 5.1. As for Opera, partial support began in version 11, full support in 11.1. Opera is currently at 11.6.

On the mobile side, iOS has supported everything since iOS4. iOS is currently at version 5. Even iOS3 had partial support. Opera Mini is providing partial support in the current version 6. However, Opera Mobile has offered full support since version 11.0. Opera Mobile is currently at 11.5. Android versions 2.2 and above, including the current 2.3/3.0, have full support.

When only partial support is provided, you can use CSS to declare a display:block rule for all the new elements and workaround the problem.

Check out HTML5 Please for information about current support (and workarounds) for everything in HTML5.

Useful links: Video, Access U, WordPress widgets

Video for Everybody! “Video for Everybody is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, falling back to Flash automatically without the use of JavaScript or browser-sniffing. It therefore works in RSS readers (no JavaScript), on the iPhone / iPad (don’t support Flash) and on many browsers and platforms.”

A Knowbility conference is coming up on the West Coast. It’s Access U @ CSUN, toward the end of February. Learn from accessibility experts such as Shawn Henry, Jennison Asuncion, Denis Boudreau, Molly Holzschlag, Derek Featherstone and others.

An excellent presentation from Kathy Gill on using widgets in WordPress.