Accessibility

June 3, 2007

The Slow Erosion of XHTML

What the hell is happening to XHTML? With mainstream web standards uptake, maturing standardistas, WHAT Working Group specifications and Google heavily influencing our industry with total disregard for best practice web development I see a dismal future for XHTML.

May 28, 2007

Colour Blindness and Graphs

As developers we have tried to find the correct, most semantic way to mark up graphs, bar charts and pie charts to display the information accurately and in an accessible manner. What about the visual representation of these graphs though? Are they effective and accessible if you have any form of colour blindness?

May 28, 2007

Colour Contrast Chart for Colour Blindness

Colour Contrast Chart for Colour Blindness - This chart documents and simulates variations of colour blindness to explore the contrast between different 2 colour and 3 colour colour combinations.

May 21, 2007

Case Studies - Evaluate Your Website in 30 Seconds

You know how to toggle CSS and Javascript on your own website so now let’s put it to the test. In just under 30 seconds let’s see what problems we can reveal with actual live websites, and learn how to interpret the results. Get your web developer toolbar ready, we’re going in.

May 15, 2007

How to Evaluate Your Website in 30 Seconds

A quick and dirty technique to evaluate your websites for accessibility, best practice web development and if search engine can index them efficiently all in under 30 seconds. Anyone can do this, you don’t need to be technical or a web developer.

May 2, 2007

Web 2.0 and Search - CeBIT Presentation

Extra resources and summary of presentation for CeBIT, Australia. This presentation was on Web 2.0 and Search, covering technologies such as AJAX, Flash, audio and video and how to make them accessible and search engine friendly.

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