Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
The Ultimate Accessible HTML and CSS Checklist for Developers: part 1 is from access iQ. It may not be the ultimate list, but it is a new way of presenting the items in WCAG 2.0 in a reader friendly way.
At SitePoint, there’s an article about CSS Architectures: CSS Best Practices that has good code examples.
The hgroup element in HTML5 is kaput.
Drupal API extension for Dreamweaver.
Teachers will love this article! 40 years of icons: the evolution of the modern computer interface.
Do you subscribe to HTML5 News? There are many useful links focusing specifically on HTML5 in that publication. It is my Scoop.it home for curated news about that one topic. I put a lot of links there that I never mention on Web Teacher. Keep up with the latest by subscribing to it.
Hello, I’m a human being is from Elliot Jay Stocks. May I repeat: we need an internet etiquette training movement.
While we are on the topic of how to use language to disagree and/or present your own point of view in a respectful yet effective manner, read this post by Lauren Bacon: On Marissa Mayer’s Disavowal of Feminism. It’s a great example of how to make a point without being a jerk about it.
Did you know this year’s Women’s History Month theme honors women in STEM? Yay, women in STEM.
Here’s a great post about how to use WebVTT and captioning on the web with the HTML5 video element.
Jared Smith made his slides from his ARIA Gone Wild talk available on Slideshare. Good stuff.
Anna Debenham has a very concise and clear post about using “rel” to establish relationships between people on her blog. It was a Valentine’s Day post, but the infomation is good any time of the year.
This fantastic post by Pamela Wilson on Copyblogger should be reproduced and used in every beginning web design class. It’s called The Essentials of Human Web Design.
NIcholas Zakas looks at the HTML5 and JavaScript that goes into Gmail’s attachment feature in Dissecting Gmail’s Email Attachments.
Dig deep into CSS gradients. Good stuff and a new voice on gradients.
Great tutorial about the HTML 5 progress element over on HTML5 Doctor.
If your WordPress theme doesn’t have ARIA landmark roles built in already, Steve Faulkner tells you how to add them in about 20 minutes in Using WAI-ARIA Landmark Roles – 2013.
While responsive web design has taken off like a rocket, the question of what to do with images in a design that adapts to any device that might be used to display it is still under investigation. I’ve gathered some resources to help you understand the issues and see some of the tests and demos that have be done.
I don’t think we have a final answer that will become “best practice” yet, but there are a lot of great minds grappling with the issues.
Navigation in Lists: To Be or Not to Be is an important post by Chris Coyier. It talks about how using an unordered list as navigation may not be the great idea we thought it was. If you, like me, use unordered lists in all your navigation, you need to read this post.
If you haven’t checked out the new blog Women and Tech you must look at it. Amazing design and functions. Why not read their latest interview while you’re there: Christina Truong.
The Chinese New Year is coming. It will soon be “my” year for great good fortune – the year of the snake. Here’s a look at how Apple thinks about the marketing opportunities in the celebration of the Chinese New Year.