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While I was researching for my post What's new in WCAG 2 , a new podcast was published in a podcast show I like to watch: Boagworld . It is very interesting, and I think people might find it interesting. The sound is not that great here (there’s a whole bunch of apologies for that on the podcast’s site itself ). If you prefer to see the video on the original site, here’s the link: Video: Introduction to WCAG 2 . If you want to read the transcript of this presentation, it is available on the original...
A few days ago, I was asked to give my opinion regarding the accessibility level of a web site. The lead UI designer said something like “If I understand the guidelines correctly, there is no need to change the design, to comply with WCAG 2.0”. This phrase got me thinking: the person who said it, is a person I appreciate a lot; but yet, something in this phrase didn’t sound right. The point is, that the accessibility guidelines are meant to give the web-developer with some rules and explanations...
Tooltips are a convenient way to present some extra information about tools on our web page, i.e. some details about a link or an image. However, those tooltips, by default, are not very pretty, to say the least, and only rarely aligned with the page's design in aspects of color and/or font. If you want to have a tool tip with special colors, special fonts, etc. you're in a bit of a problem. And I haven't even talked about adding images to your tooltip, yet. One of the popular solutions...
In a previous post, ' Do and don't do on web pages ' I described a set of things you shouldn't do in a web page. Last weekend I had to remove my self from that project, and return to one of my own's. Given the new circumstances, Shay, the project's manager, had to resume his work on the mark-up and CSS using his own team (and his own 10 fingers). The tight time frame made him work quick and dirty, which is the complete opposite to my ideas and methodologies. But he was...
Some time ago one of my collogues stepped into my office and asked for assistance. The project he's working in, is a maintenance project for some commercial site that is already on-line. The client wishes to lunch a huge campaign, and for that occasion he'd like the site to be redesigned. Of course he want it done for yesterday, and if possible even the day before. The problems are many: the code is massy, there's no common sense in the CSS file, there are weird combinations of inline...
Or - a personal history of how I became an accessibility consultant (or preacher for some). Hello everyone, since this is my first post, I'll start by a short introduction of my self: My name is Joe, I'm a system architect and a technological consultant. I used to deal a lot wit banking application, architecture and security. May be "used" is the wrong term, because I still do that. However, a year (or so) ago, I've started researching about accessibility on web site and how...