Due the limited number of fonts available for web we need to make use of other techniques to make our design look the way we want. Most of the time we simply cut the image from the psd file and place it in the html/css. But this has impact over the accessibility of the site [...]
What can you answer to your client when you try to explain that your code is W3c, semantic, crossbrowser and…accessible and your client asks you “Good for you you’re coding accessible websites, but do you actually know any blind user?” Meaning, why should someone care about how you code a site as long as table-based [...]
On 09.24.09, In Submitted news, by Dan Tamas
Ok, we all know now Google Frame. What is it ? It’s a plugin for IE that creates a frame inside and uses Webkit as renderer & javascript engine. All great because it allows you (the IE user) to see all the fancy new stuff like canvas, HTML5, SVG( maybe?). But why? I mean why [...]
On 09.23.09, In Submitted news, by Lucica Ibanescu
I know almost every blogger wrote about this subject (lately all complaining about IE6 still being used by common users) – but this time I think we should take all this to the next level and start doing something about it. I admit I don’t usually have contact with the final clients or have access [...]
After writing an accessible form in XHTML and validating it with a PHP server side script & after that with a Mootools client-side script, I write today about a third way of approaching the subject – using future-to-come HTML5 (by saying that, I really hope to be able to use it waaaay before 2011). The [...]
Validate forms client side with MooTools.
We made an usability case study for Kroppr.
A good way to learn about accessibility is through examples and discussions. In this post I will try to translate the WCAG sometimes-hard-to-get rules into a copy-paste real contact form example. You can check the test link, download the code and/or keep reading a bit more. As I mentioned before, contact forms are in great [...]
LAB.js (Loading And Blocking JavaScript) allows you load in parallel your js scripts , speeding up the process ( sometimes a lot). But also it can force that scripts are loaded in a certain order, so this way no dependencies are broken. The developer declares a 2x speed improvement on his site. On an ondevelopment [...]
On 06.22.09, In Accessibility, by Lucica Ibanescu
When it comes to accessibility, every coder is a small guru. On the websites where I bid for projects everybody is an accessibility and usability expert (including myself, I admit). Altough these rules exist for quite a while there are coders who find it difficult to implement them – so I am trying to find [...]