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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...
Last December, at last, W3C published the final release of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 . It took five years to create this new version, and now that it is out, there are many questions regarding this new version. I will try to cover the main issues and questions I’m getting from clients and colleagues, and I’ll be happy to add some more, if you have any (just, send me a line, or add it in the comments). Why do we need the new version? Well, that is the first question that usually...
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...
I recently wrote about a hectic project I assisted in ( Make a (visible) difference ). That project had some major UI design and development problems. chances so happened that just now, I was called to another project with UI problems. The interesting thing, or funny, thing about that project is that it had the same characteristics as the first one. Quite similar mistakes, the same problems and same errors. Working on that one, the past week or so, lead me to this post. A list of "Do" and...
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...