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July 30, 2008
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Accessibility: Build it in, don’t bolt it on
April 1, 2008
Accessibility should be considered, communicated and planned for from the get-go of every web project. In most cases it’s not, it’s too late and that’s when we’re called in. We’d like that to change, so that we’re not righting design oversights late in the process, when there’s little project time or budget left.
Two potential iQ recruits (if those pesky child labour laws were relaxed)
January 15, 2008
Alexia Golez, a software engineer at Microsoft, attended the Young Scientist Exhibition and did a quick video of two entrants that we’d like to hire straight away if it weren’t for those pesky child protection laws.
Screenreaders and writing for accessibility: the importance of meaningful and structured headings
August 3, 2007
Semantic mark-up is the mainly the domain of web designers. For content authors, it’s someone else’s problem.
However, content authors may need to understand the concept of semantic HTML if they are to produce web content that is accessible to all.
In this quick video example, I’ll demonstrate the benefits of semantic headings for accessibility and set our readers the task of explaining what may look like a heading, may not actually be a heading.
Some useful CSS utilities, classes & hacks
May 10, 2007
When I’m creating a typical standards based design I often use a standard collection of css properties to do very common things, so I don’t have to write classes or do as many browser hacks as I would have to do normally.
Here’s some that I find particularly useful
Web standards could account for huge savings at AIB
March 1, 2007
AIB went live with a new homepage today. While not commenting on the usability or information design of the new page, I’ve done a quick case study on the potential benefits of AIB’s adopting web standards on the IIA blog. Hat tip to Michele Neylon whose post alerted me to the new design.
Explaining web standards using Microsoft Word
February 27, 2007
Recently, while training a group of content authors on writing for the web, I had to explain the difference between appearance and semantics. The authors were not techies, so I wanted to avoid talking about HTML, web standards and anything else with a strong eye-glazing potential. That’s when I turned to Microsoft Word…