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BCS interviews Sir Tim: "Another important area of professionalism is accessibility awareness. Everyone should be accommodated, especially when around 20 per cent of the population have special requirements."

With cl1p.net you can copy and paste between computers. Just enter in any URL that starts with http://cl1p.net and post. Then from any other computer enter the same URL and copy.

"Developers are encouraged to use summary, headers, axis, scope, and abbr for complex data tables to aid usability and accessibility. To help developers determine if they've used those features correctly, I've created a complex table inspector bookmark th

Interesting. "You design. We transform it into XHTML/ CSS."

Well, that needs fixing...

A research project financed by the Information Society Technologies Programme of the European Commission priority of the Sixth Framework Programme (Action Line e-Inclusion).

An easy to use HTML validator implementation which doesn't use the official W3C DTD's. It rather validates HTML documents using it's own schema definitions written in Relax NG with embedded Schematron patterns.

"The aim of the "Relaxed" project is to allow automated validation of additional restrictions which are expressed just verbally in the text of different HTML standards."

"The EIAO project will establish the technical basis for a European Internet Accessibility Observatory. Frequently updated assessment data will be available online from a data warehouse providing a basis for benchmarking, policymaking, research and action

Nice, but can't get it to stop trimming my empty image-replacement spans. Finer degree of control would be useful.

“Wireframing AJAX is a bitch.” [...] while I can’t deny the statement, I do think there are steps we can take to alleviate the pain."

BTCV Green Gym groups meet in their local area at least once a week. A Green Gym session lasts for up to three hours. During this time you will be doing environmental conservation or gardening activities with a trained leader.

So why are we hooked on throwing away razors encased in plastic?

"Simply select the leaflet(s) you would like and you will be presented with a choice of whether you wish to view and download a PDF of the leaflet(s) - where possible - or submit your request to us to receive a copy, giving your name, address, email and t

More on SVS: "Safely install software in a virtual layer".

CreativePublic is your one-stop shop for quality forms, contracts, employee manuals, company policies and pricing for graphic designers. Download free samples.

Based on Suckerfish HoverLightbox this one uses my multi-page layout system but includes images instead of text. Unlike the Suckerfish HoverLightbox this version is pure CSS.

New Douglas Copeland novel, June 2006, Bloomsbury.

An online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page’s perceived contrast.

Why it's important to label Web pages with character encodings

Collaborative whiteboard thingummy

The article takes a normal web development task of creating a dynamic web page with a tabbed interface, a popping-up product shot and a slide show and shows two ways of reaching the same result

The X-Ray Firefox Extension let’s you see the tags on a page without viewing the sourcecode.

Survey of AJAX/JavaScript Libraries

In this final article of the series I will explain some aspects of website accessibility that are difficult to test with automated tools and require more time and/or experience to evaluate manually.

Could be interesting...

Wish I'd known about this two or three weeks ago...

"If JavaScript is available the linked file gets shown in a new layer - if it is an image just as the image, if not inside an IFRAME. DOMinclude automatically positions the popup where the original link is and adds a text prefix to the original link telli

I'll tell you how you can still run IE7 in standalone mode despite the security update.

seven now correctly implements the W3C specification by collapsing containers that include floated children. However, as seven has not implemented generated content, the so called easy clearing method is not an option for clearing floats in seven.

Remove the active/focus dotted borders when using the Phark Image Replacement technique.

"Search engine optimization is one of the most popular subjects when nerds sit around and talk about Flash. “Does Google index your swf files?” seems to be the most popular question [...] The real answer to this question, once and for all, is this: It

For individuals with disabilities, Flash can introduce unique accessibility problems.

Easy clearing technique that works in IE6, IE7 and other standards compliant browsers. Based on the original easy clearing method.