AJAX and Screen Readers - Content Access Issues

The rise in the use of AJAX to dynamically change content without refreshing the page has resulted in accessibility problems for users of Assistive Technology...

0 replies - 82 views - 05/08/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Presentation Layer Accessibility

Not everyone using the Internet today enjoys the same kind of user experience as does the average person. Consider the following:

0 replies - 203 views - 05/08/08 by accessibility in News

CSS Generated Content Part 1

One of the things that had me bothered for a while were visual separators. Whenever I got a design, there were always some silly pipes or > signs that were...

0 replies - 426 views - 05/07/08 by Niels Matthijs in News

Simplifying and Demystifying CSS Backgrounds

If you've been designing websites for awhile then you probably remember this: <body background="bg.jpg">. I wrote a lot of websites like that...

0 replies - 129 views - 05/06/08 by ldminteractive in News

Interview: Roger Johansson : 456BereaStreet.com

I had the privilege of interviewing one of the great voices in the web design world today. Roger Johansson, 456bereastreet.com, is a Swedish web professional...

0 replies - 106 views - 05/05/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Web page quality statistics by Nikita The Spider

Statistics about Web page quality – like the frequency of certain validation error messages and the popularity of XHTML versus HTML doctypes – are pretty...

0 replies - 125 views - 05/03/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Web Accessibility Tools Round-Up

While there is no substitute for true user testing when it comes to web accessibility testing, there is definitely a lot of room for tools that can aid us in...

0 replies - 1060 views - 05/02/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

23 Resources for Clean and Compressed CSS

There are a number of free online tools that can help you to create and maintain effective CSS coding. These tools include validators, optimizers, compressors...

1 replies - 811 views - 04/30/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

The conclusion - How and when to use links in HTML pages - Part 3

The final part of this series will cover the remainig forms of linking not covered in part 1 or part 2. By now you should feel comfortable with how you link to...

0 replies - 138 views - 04/29/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Oh look, using Ajax in a stupid way is not a good idea?

It is quite fascinating to me that the newest article on dev.opera.com entitled ‘Stop using Ajax!’ is such a big thing right now. Tweets, shared bookmarks...

0 replies - 330 views - 04/29/08 by codepo8 in News

An Objective Look at Javascript 2.0: Strong Typing

In our first look at the new features of Javascript 2.0, we will focus on the new typing system. We are just going to highlight some of the major changes and...

0 replies - 743 views - 04/29/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Essential SEO Tips & Techniques, Best Practises

One of the aspects we as web developers and designers often overlook is how to market the work we put out there. With this I mean, do you really...

0 replies - 856 views - 04/25/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Interview: Robert Nyman : Creator of DOMAssistant

After using DOMAssistant on a recent project and enjoying the benefit this library brings to developing JavaScript cross-browser I felt I really needed to...

0 replies - 465 views - 04/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

XHTML 2.0 and HTML 5 The difference is in the details

Overview of XHTML 2.0 XHTML 2.0 is based solely on XML, forgoing the SGML heritage and syntax peculiarities present in current web markup. XHTML 2.0...

0 replies - 1024 views - 04/23/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Using Django with Appengine

About Welcome to Django tutorial for integrating with Appengine. This is a port of the Django tutorial to use appengine instead of Pure Django. Like in the...

0 replies - 543 views - 04/21/08 by shabda raaj in News