As I’m working on my book one topic that I’m trying to emphasize keeps coming to mind – that topic is the difference in how browsers will render the same page. I think that far too many people see this as a huge problem, when…
Category: Accessibility
Today I read an article, in my local newspaper, about a woman who had left her new husband when he forgot to celebrate their one year anniversary. She went to stay with her mother, but doesn’t know if he’s figured out yet why she took…
If you’ve checked out your website in Mozilla Firefox or one of the other non-IE browsers, you may have been shocked to discover that NONE of the ‘alt’ tags you spent so long preparing are working. What browser do you use to check your web…
I think the thing that I am finding to be the most annoying these days is the alert for ‘Missing Plugin for Quicktime, please download.’ Well, go figure, I can’t – at least that I know of. But it’s not just Quicktime files, it’s also…
This is one of those topics that bears mentioning periodically – screen resolution statistics are misleading. Often when people are thinking of creating a fixed-width layout, they are doing so due to what their statistics are telling them. If statistics are saying that 99.5% of…
Microsoft has a new version of their IE7 Beta that will be introduced at the MIX 06 event this month in Vegas. The new beta version, which Andy is calling the IE MIX 06 release, seems to have addressed quite a few of the bugs…
Lawsuit Filed for Lack of Accessibilty One would expect, or are we just hoping, that the larger the company, the more capable they are of affording to have their sites made accessible. The idea to this, of course, is that those with the financial power…
CAPTCHA – What are the Alternatives? In a very interesting document published by the working group over at W3C, it was discussed in detail how CAPTCHA’s are very bad for accessibility. In case you don’t recall, CAPTCHA is that nice acronym for the terribly long…
What is Accessibility Compliance? As was mentioned in the previous discussion on code compliance, there is some substantial overlap between code and accessibility compliance. However, the one distinction is that code compliance is more geared toward coding a webpage in a way that it will…
What is Standards Compliant Code? Well, it actuall is more of an overall category than a single thing, however, I’ll define it as this: “Standards Compliant Code is the utilization of the current standards combinations, as set forth by the W3C Recommendations, in order to…