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Today, I did an accessibility presentation for the DOE InterLab conference of national labs. It was a review and refresher with a few new things about ARIA roles added in. The slide deck is available at vdebolt.com/interlab.
The agenda for the InterLab conference shows an interesting list of speakers in addition to my small part. Among the speakers are Emily Lewis and Chantal Forster. Kudos to the DOE organizers of this event for getting so many brilliant women as speakers.
I love those popular posts widgets, but I don’t have room for one here on Web Teacher. Today I want to share some of the most popular posts on this blog to make up for that omission. If you missed them the first time, please take a look.
Troubleshooting CSS is from Codrops.
I mentioned my new blog yesterday. I was thinking about using a carousel on it. Now Jared Smith and Craig Grannell are saying this: Accessibility Expert Warns: Stop Using Carousels. Well, Jared, you convinced me.
Making an Accessible form with ARIA, part 1 is from Deque.
No, Google Glass is not the ending point of Moore’s law, just another step along the way. Smart neural dust could carry sensors deep into the human brain, send data back out is further proof of where we’re going as a society with technology. So why can’t we find a form of energy that doesn’t create a hot planet?
HTML5 and ARIA Design Patterns is at .net magazine. It provides design patterns for main elements, navigation elements, sections, details, summaries, and figures and figcaptions. In each design pattern, the appropriate ARIA roles are shown.
The Tower Blog explains how they did the CSS3 transforms in their sidebar in CSS3 Transforms by Example.
How to Teach Industry Ready? is at Unicorn Institute.
Large Background Images in Web Design: Tips and Techniques. Nice summary of the various options.
Dreamweaver CC is very different in appearance and interface from previous versions. The wizard for creating CSS rules that has been in place since the early days is gone. Here’s a nice tutorial with downloadable files that will walk you through some of the ways to use the software interface now while making a simple web page.
Tips and Tricks for Print Style Sheets brings you up to speed on the modern way to create print styles.
Pragmatica11y: Teaching Accessibility Core Rules is the second of two posts by Dennis Boudreau. The first boiled down the rules for the Perceivable part of POUR. This post covers the Operable, Understandable, and Robust aspects, simplified down to the ‘core.’
A complicated question about making a form within a table that is accessible gets a great answer from Jared Smith at Web Standards Sherpa’s Facebook page.
You read A List Apart without me having to remind you to, right? Nevertheless, I thought this customer services post called Designing for Services Beyond the Screen was really excellent. How can you take the lessons from this article and apply them to your site?
Wow, talk about going mainstream. Ms. Magazine is getting into the fray on the topic of the miserable representation of women in gaming. Actually, About Half of Gamers are Women. It’s a good summary of the topic if you haven’t paid much attention before.
If you read Web Teacher posts via an RSS feed, you may forget that there is a page on the blog where I track a list of most of the posts I categorize as Web Teacher Tips. Here are 5 of the best ones brought back to your attention.