#standards (172 links)
In their eagerness to be good Web citizens, people sometimes use semantic markup when they shouldn’t. Most commonly, this happens with bold and italics.
- Flash, JavaScript, and web standards: like sodium and water? - The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
In my previous post I related my experience with implementing markup-only solutions to the task of incorporating multimedia into web sites, and later asserted a low opinion of a popular tool used for publishing SWF files.
- IEBlog : Details on our CSS changes for IE7 blogs.msdn.com
Thank the lord!
- CSE HTML Validator Firefox Extension htmlvalidator.com
Lets you easily validate documents from within Firefox 1.0 and Firefox 1.5 using the CSE HTML Validator Engine.
- Tantek's Thoughts — 2006 July tantek.com
Here is a summary of 8 steps any web developer can take to improve their page code
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
A simple, but effective way to give an extreme visual example to show the editors that something has gone horribly wrong
- Radiant CMS - Content Management Simplified radiantcms.com
A no-fluff, open source content management system designed for small teams.
Many designers don’t think about the code behind the sites they design [...] The good news is designers don’t need to learn code; they just need to change the way they think.
- QnECMS Content Mangement System | Accessible Content Management System: Quick and Easy (QnECMS) qnecms.co.uk
Quick & Easy Accessible CMS, Weblog and Podcasting Software.
Bad ideas that get in the minds of standards-based developers
a group of developers, led by Joe Clark, that will publish corrections for, and extensions to, existing standards for Web accessibility. Our first area of interest is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, though we have not ruled out publishing er
- A List Apart: Articles: To Hell with WCAG 2 alistapart.com
"Where WCAG 2 breaks down is in the big stuff. Curiously, though, and perhaps due to meticulous editing over the years, the big stuff is well camouflaged and, to an uninformed reader, WCAG 2 seems reasonable. It isn’t, and you as a working standards-com
- Garrett Dimon / Front-End Architecture: Markup is the Technical Foundation garrettdimon.com · Archived on
Trying to build a scalable, maintainable, and extendable user experience on bad markup is like building a house on quicksand.
Top 5 reasons why you should beware of opening links in a new window.
- Web Accessibility in UK Small Businesses andyhiggs.co.uk
The dissertation approaches some key accessibility questions in the UK; do small businesses know that they are expected to provide accessibility and are they prepared to bite the bullet and shell out for an upgrade?
All we need to do is designate a CSS style with multiple background-images. As your browser reads the style, it will load each image you designate in succession, thus pre-loading your images.
One area of Web design that is going to become more important in the coming years is high DPI.
The WaiZilla project is the first open source project aimed at producing a cross platform web-site accessibility testing tool.
"It’s always seemed a bit wrong and dirty to use innerHTML to manipulate or add content to a page. It’s not a standard (more of an agreement between browser manufacturers) and it doesn’t work on some browsers with certain mime-types while the core p
- A Guide to CSS Support in Email | Articles/Tips - Campaign Monitor Blog campaignmonitor.com · Archived on
Good timing.
Accessible, usable websites built with universality and standards in mind need not be boring
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.
- Relaxed Project relaxed.sourceforge.net
"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."
- Evaluating website accessibility: Part 3, Digging Deeper | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com · Archived on
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.
- Clearing floats without structural markup in IE7 | And all that Malarkey stuffandnonsense.co.uk
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.
- Accessify Forum: Accessibility Discussion Forums accessifyforum.com
- The Elements of Meaningful XHTML tantek.com
- Accesskey standards | clagnut/blog clagnut.com
The UK Government provides accessibility guidelines to which all its websites should comply. These guidelines state:
- Robert’s talk » Why do we have to fight? robertnyman.com
- Tips for improved accessibility in ASP.NET 1.1 - Standards-schmandards standards-schmandards.com
Inaccurate?
Margin Collapsing
How Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review
- Web Design, Consultancy & Education :: Digital Spoke - Design with purpose :: Cambridge, UK :: dspoke.com · Archived on
We are a web design company, based in Cambridge, focussed on building websites that are made well and work to enhance your enterprise, whatever it may be.
- CSS-Only Forms That Don't Suck dev.jeffhowden.com
- Robert’s talk » Why accessibility? robertnyman.com