On 07.05.11, In CSS & CSS3, by Lucica Ibanescu
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.
On 12.17.10, In Accessibility, by Lucica Ibanescu
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…
On 06.02.10, In Applications, by Dan Tamas
We have launched the first ebook “Fairy Tales” by Brothers Grimm which contains a set of 62 beautiful bedtime stories.
It is built as an iPad application available for download on Appstore.
The application has a beautiful and usable interface allowing the user to choose the font, the size of the text and to switch to night-mode for a better reading experience during the night. It saves your current reading position in realtime so you can close the ebook at anytime and return to reading it later.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
On 01.16.08, In CSS & CSS3, by Dan Tamas
Forms are the base of interactivity in webpages. Formating forms can bring a good usability to a page, easing the user’s experience.