Inspired from the print world people from Adobe and Microsoft are coming with new features that might (or might not) be embedded into future CSS specs. These new features – CSS Regions and CSS Exclusions – will allow text to flow into webpages pretty much like they do in newspapers and magazines.

Dan Tamas was invited to talk about Titanium Appcelerator at TheEvnt 2011 in Cáceres, Spain, May 14th and the purpose of this talk was to present the advantages of using this framework to develop applications for iPhone, iPad and Android devices.

It was an introductory talk in order to present to the Spanish developers an alternative to ObjectiveC and the very popular Java.

After seeing how AT reads a content generated with CSS pseudo-elements I was thinking to move on to HTML5. And since there are a lot of people saying we should mix HTML5 with ARIA in order to increase the accessibility of a website, then why not test and see what happens?

This article is about how screen readers speak the content added with CSS pseudo-elements :before and :after (in CSS3 they are ::before and ::after).

I am trying to learn to use AT when developing websites and recently I saw that no matter how W3C wants us to use a certain CSS element, there will always be developers/designers who will try to push the limits of the specification.

While I do advise you to NOT use pseudo-elements to generate useful content (limit yourself to generating quotes or design elements), just in case somebody thinks that the cool resides in generating content with CSS because everything else is already old, let’s see how people using screen readers will “benefit” from the idea.

For those of you webdevelopers who have 1 hour to spare I am offering this Chris Heilmann talk at Fronteers 2010 in Amsterdam. I promise you it’s funny, engaging, motivating and it will make you feel good to be a part of the web world

You can find information on the Fronteers Conference website and all the 14 sessions (about HTML5, CSS3, Accessibility, Javascript, Design and more) are now on their Vimeo channel.

We team just launched a fairy tales book of Hans Christian Andersen under the name “Bedtime stories”. It is built as an iPad application available for download on Appstore.

I would like to post here a selection of resources that might help you start using ARIA in your web applications or websites – although ARIA is still a draft. you can start using it and some AT will know how to read it.

Try some demos: ARIA Live Regions Screen Reader Demo

And more resources…

Sir Ken Robinson gave 2 very funny and impressive TED talks about revolutionizing the education (one in 2006 & one in 2010) and we got so excited about these that we decided to post them here and share them with you. In case you don’t know TED you might wanna check more talks and ideas on their website.

2006 – Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity

2010 – Sir Ken Robinson: Bring on the learning revolution!

…more talks.

Have you ever tried to understand how IE8 behaves when searching? As a non-IE user I am used to going to the top right box, type a word and receive instantly the page with the search results. I work mostly with Mozilla and sometimes with Opera and Chrome (when I’m in a hurry and I need a page to load fast, I admit). So for me, as a user, the entire search process is transparent. I don’t even pay much attention to what search engine each of them uses. I know they are going to return some results and I’m always in a hurry.

It’s Friday, I was thinking to have a little fun and offer you this brand new multibrowser addon to create pixel-perfect layouts based on a horizontal grid.

We will also think about a vertical one, or mixing vertical and horizontal grids to bring some happiness into designers’ world

Suggestions and improvements are welcome and much appreciated.