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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.
- Latest Accessibility News on Accessify | UKUPA presentation: What does PAS 78 mean for accessibility? accessify.com · Archived on
Friday 28th April, 6.30pm for 6.45pm, Free for UPA members, £10 for Non UPA members (£5 for students).
- Crazy Egg — Coming Soon… crazyegg.com
With Crazy Egg you can easily see where visitors are clicking on a page and where they're not.
Describes how we used one blogging package (WordPress) to replace a traditional content management system (phpWebSite) to run a community website.
Could be useful for images but wouldn't let it near my HTML. "Strips the redundant information often contained in GIF, JPEG, PNG and HTML files, reducing their size by sometimes as much as 40 or 50%."
The WaiZilla project is the first open source project aimed at producing a cross platform web-site accessibility testing tool.
- A List Apart: Articles: A More Accessible Map alistapart.com
Is there a way to display text-based data on a map, keeping it accessible, useful and visually attractive? Yes: using an accessible CSS-based map in which the underlying map data is separated from the visual layout.
- Skip Navigation jimthatcher.com
"An analysis/study of techniques for "skip navigation" links (also "skip to main content" links) which resulted from an assignment I had in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines working group, Techniques task group."
A simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.
- Accessibility Color Wheel gmazzocato.altervista.org
- SitePoint Design View sitepoint.com
The executive summary: SpiffyCorners is an online generator that allows easy production of rounded corners on content boxes (DIVs).
- Sitepoint » Spanky Corners: Generate XHTML Compliant Corners with CSS tools.sitepoint.com · Archived on
Cunning...
"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
Content managers often turn a blind eye to the hundreds of thousands of PDF files sitting on their servers, downloaded every day... and 99% of them, hideously inaccessible, and utterly non-compliant with Section 508.
A step-by-step guide that covers the basics for creating and optimizing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files so that they can be made accessible to users with disabilities such as blindness or low vision.
- Defining Acrobat PDF Accessibility webaim.org
In order for a PDF to be truly accessible two conditions must be met
- A Guide to CSS Support in Email | Articles/Tips - Campaign Monitor Blog campaignmonitor.com · Archived on
Good timing.
A Guide to CSS Support in Email details the level of support for CSS in the most widely used email clients. The guide includes email software for Windows and Mac OS as well as web based email clients.
- Shaw Trust User Testing - Blether blether.com
It became very clear to me just how inadequate [checking against WCAG, using simple tests like increasing text size, browsing with Lynx, and navigating with keyboard] was in truly determining whether or not the site was accessible
Accessible, usable websites built with universality and standards in mind need not be boring
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."
- Juicy Studio: Complex Table Inspector juicystudio.com
"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
- Make sure machines dig your designs: XHTMLized xhtmlized.com
Interesting. "You design. We transform it into XHTML/ CSS."
- BenToWeb Home Page bentoweb.org
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.
- 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."
- EIAO — Main eiao.net
"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
“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."
- Dragon Labs | The Ultimate Tabbed Menu dragon-labs.com
- Creative Latitude: Resources: Downloads creativelatitude.com
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.
- GrayBit v0.5 Beta: Grayscale Conversion Contrast Accessibility Tool - Main Page - Presented by GrayBit graybit.com · Archived on
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.
- David Baron's weblog: February 2006 dbaron.org
Why it's important to label Web pages with character encodings
Collaborative whiteboard thingummy
- Flash / JavaScript Integration Kit weblogs.macromedia.com
- From DHTML to DOM scripting - an hands-on example of how to replace outdated JavaScript techniques. icant.co.uk · Archived on
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
- Manning Ajax in Action manning.com
- AjaxLibraries wiki.osafoundation.org
Survey of AJAX/JavaScript Libraries
- JAWS for Windows 7.10 Public Beta freedomscientific.com
- 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.