Accessibility (6 articles)
Fixing the 'read more' problem
In my continuing journey to be as anal as humanly possible regarding web standards, I thought it about time to look at one of my pet peeves - the 'read more' link, also commonly known as 'more info' and sometimes 'keep reading'. You know what I'm talking about of course. The links like you see on the homepage of this very blog, where content is truncated and followed by a 'read more' link lead...
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Create a stylish accessible form
There are a stack of different ways to lay out a form, but honestly sometimes I’m undecided on which way is better. Some say there’s nothing wrong with using a table to position your form elements, but I reckon that makes it semantically meaningless. Forms have admittedly always been a field (bad pun, sorry) of HTML that I've not paid as much attention to as I should have, but I ...
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Regarding Semantics
Semantics (n) The meaning, or an interpretation of the meaning, of a word. Now that's out of the way, what do semantics mean in modern web design? Depending on who you ask you could get a varied response, but if anything is certain it's that the concept of semantic mark-up isn't difficult to grasp. Note: This article is about semantic mark-up, not the semantic web (which will allegedly be web ...
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Making the transition from px to em
Like it or not, there are times when your readers will want to resize the on-screen text for what ever reason. I find myself doing it often because I run a high resolution monitor and some web designers still believe in tiny fonts. But that's another story. So what should you be using to display your fonts? Em or Px? That depends who you ask, but first a brief lesson on the differences. Em,...
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A few good accessibility resources
I'm mid way developing a new web site for a client who has a large percentage of disabled users, this includes people with motor disabilities, blind, colour blind and deaf. Although accessibility is somewhat of a personal passion of mine, I seldom get the opportunity to develop sites for that particular audience. But I thought it might be beneficial to others to share some of the resources I us...
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Considerate Accessibility
When I got my first web development job more than 10 years ago I had only a vague clue what the term 'accessibility' meant, and no clue what it meant to develop for it. Like many other web developers these days we know what's technically required to achieve an accessible web site, but there are some other things to consider post launch. If you're going to hand a CMS controlled site over to your...
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