Tag Archives: Accessibility
Behind the Websites: Maintaining Link Focus
August 23, 2011
Anyone who has attempted to navigate a web page using the keyboard will have experienced sites that remove the default a:focus style without adding in a replacement.
Tags: Accessibility, CSS, Eric Meyer, reset, usability
Design: Usability, Trust and the iPad
June 9, 2011
Apple are known for their beautiful design and their “it just works” mentality. It’s one of the things I love about my own Apple products. My parents, on the other hand, are known for not being me.
The only computers my parents have ever used are Windows machines and English is their third language.
I wanted to see how easy it would be for them to set up an iPad 2 for themselves.
Tags: Accessibility, Apple, expectations, iPad, usability
Behind the Websites: HTML5: I couldn’t (quite) do it
December 13, 2010
I found it difficult to use pure and semantic HTML5 when dealing with current versions of Internet Explorer. I really tried to adopt the commonly advocated view that it’s okay to require website visitors have JavaScript enabled but settled on a different option I could actually live with.
Tags: Accessibility, CSS, html, html5, JavaScript, usability
Behind the Websites: ‘Skip to Content’ Links
July 8, 2010
Josh and I were discussing the positioning of Skip to Content links on a website. In the past I’ve placed these in the first menu on the page, usually positioned under the header.
Tags: Accessibility, Best Practice, coding, content, JAWS, screen readers, WordPress
Behind the Websites: Valid Isn’t Best Practice
June 9, 2010
Not long ago, on the @soupgiant account, I tweeted “Vaild html / css doesn’t indicate your code is best practice; it may even indicate the opposite. #css3″. Neither the xHTML nor the CSS on this site validates, we consider it to observe best practices.
Tags: Accessibility, browsers, html5, input types, standards, xhtml