38 month ago
Isofarro : Are They Really Accessible PDFs? - Julian Rickards has a longish response to Joe Clark's recent A List Apart article
kayodeok : Are They Really Accessible PDFs? - A response to Joe Clark's ALA Article on Accessible PDFs
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39 month ago
Isofarro : Communicating error messages accessibly - Sensible and logical method of presenting validation errors to a visitor.
kayodeok : Communicating error messages accessibly - Error messages should be accessible for as many users as possible regardless of culture, age and impairment
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39 month ago
Isofarro : URL Encode chart - Useful.
kayodeok : URL Encode Chart - The following is a chart of ascii values for 256 characters in URL-encoding form. These values can be used for URL-encoding non-standard letters and characters for display in browsers and plug-ins which support them.
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39 month ago
Isofarro : Evaluating web sites for accessibility with Firefox - An indepth article by redux about accessibility testing using Firefox's Web Developer toolbar. Excellent work!
kayodeok : Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility with Firefox - How Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review
Ethan Marcotte : Using Firefox's Web Developer Toolbar to evaluate WCAG 1.0 compliance - A great walkthrough.
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40 month ago
Isofarro : Semantics, Standards, Accessibility - the three legs of the Stool of Truth - Bruce Lawson, of the ATF, has a good overview of the need for Semantics, Structure and accessibility. Please note, XHTML has been deprecated in favour of Sinclair ZX81 Basic - thanks redux!
kayodeok : Semantics, Standards, Accessibility ... the three legs of the Stool of Truth - A good, modern website is like a stool. (The wooden kind. An inaccessible website is like the other kind.)
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40 month ago
Philippe Janvier : Accessible Data Tables - "Where it appears that id and headers are the most effective way to make complex data tables accessible". [via] #
Isofarro : Accessible Data Tables - 'At this stage, it appears that id and headers are the most effective way to make complex data tables accessible. Although id and headers are slightly more difficult to code than scope, the apparent poor screen reader support for scope means that this is
kayodeok : Web Usability - Accessible Data Tables - For data tables, identify row and column headers. [Priority 1] For example, in HTML, use TD to identify data cells and TH to identify headers."
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40 month ago
Isofarro : The day the movies died - Joe Clark's ongoing troubles with Famous Players ends in victory, but at a heavy cost.
kayodeok : The day the movies died - Joe Clark on his battle for accessible movies in Canada. I don't know what rights deaf movie goers have in the UK, I love movies but few are being closed-captioned so it isn't worth the experience for me, I just wait for the DVD
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40 month ago
Isofarro : Efficient JavaScript code - Logical optimisations that keep JavaScript code running as fast as possible
kayodeok : Efficient JavaScript code - How to optimise your javascript code: "Well written code will help to minimise the performance impact of User JavaScripts."
Paul Hammond : Efficient JavaScript code - UserJS.org
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41 month ago
Isofarro : DOM properties, collections and methods - An excellent reference to DOM manipulation in JavaScript
kayodeok : JavaScript tutorial - Document and object structure summary - text based version - This gives all properties, collections and methods of the W3C DOM that can be reliably used in all major DOM browsers, as well as document.styleSheets, which is very unreliable, but useful if it works
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41 month ago
Isofarro : Folder Tree List - Styling nested lists as expandable folder trees
kayodeok : Folder Tree List - How to style nested lists as Folder Trees in the fashion of Windows Explorer (the folder trees aren't collapsible by the way)
deusx : Folder Tree List - "a nested list styled in the fashion of Windows Explorer "
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41 month ago
Isofarro : CSS Specificity - CSS specificity of styles explains how styles are prioritised when rendered.
kayodeok : CSS - Specificity - "If you have two (or more) conflicting CSS rules that point to the same element, there are some basic rules that a browser follows to determine which one is most specific and therefore wins out"
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42 month ago
Isofarro : Useful Windows Software
kayodeok : Useful Windows Software - This is an organized list of all the software mentioned in the most recent incarnation of the perennial "post some cool software" thread in SH/SC
Charles Miller : Useful Windows Software - A giant list of Useful Windows Software
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42 month ago
Isofarro : Arguments for flexible webpage layouts - Summary of the arguments against fixed width layout
kayodeok : Arguments for flexible webpage layouts - Some notes on why flexible web page layouts are a good idea
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