usability

Beauty vs. Usability - a Tale of Two Masters

We as passionate developers (or managers, CTO’s, help desk jockeys…etc) have one thing in common, we are attracted like moths to a flame towards the latest...

1 replies - 1501 views - 07/03/08 by sarajo in News

WCAG 2.0 Release Candidate 5 of 5: Summary

In short: WCAG 2.0 is here, it’s ready, now get on and use it. Focus on the User One of the main things I’ve noticed about WCAG 2.0 (and which has been...

0 replies - 736 views - 06/26/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

WCAG 2.0 Release Candidate Part 4 of 5: Level AAA

There are 21 triple-A success criteria for WCAG 2.0. The WCAG 2.0 document itself specifies that AAA conformance should not be mandated for entire sites as:

0 replies - 570 views - 06/24/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Accessible Rich Internet Applications - ARIA Slider

Starting with Steve’s article ARIA Toggle Button and Tri-state Checkbox examples, we will be providing more examples about how to use ARIA roles and states...

0 replies - 1161 views - 06/23/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

First, Do No Harm : Second, Hunt Griefers for Fun and Profit

When I chose the title “It’s Not Polite to Flash the Audience” for my discussion on photosensitivity, it was deliberately a bit flip to balance the...

0 replies - 541 views - 04/20/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

reForm: CSS Form Design Template for Any Layout (Part 2)

 A couple of weeks ago, I posted an article about the formReForm Project. formReForm is a methodology to style HTML forms without a huge amount of markup...

4 replies - 8217 views - 03/18/08 by Joe Lippeatt in News

Calling Accessible Context-Sensitive Help with Unobtrusive DOM/JavaScript - Part 1

This article was contributed by my good friend, accessible designer and co-founder of The South African Web Standards and Accessibility Group, Frank Palinkas....

0 replies - 5777 views - 03/16/08 by Schalk Neethling in News

Welcome to the Usability Zone

Since I was given the honor of being the zone leader for the usability zone I have been thinking about how I can get this zone off the ground and what would be...

0 replies - 341 views - 02/21/08 by Schalk Neethling in Articles

Don't Be A #f00! Get the Red Out!

One element of a website that involves direct user to website interaction is web forms. Web forms can be extremely helpful in getting customer information or...

11 replies - 2589 views - 01/26/08 by David Walsh in News

CSS Cursors - Increase Usability With A Pointer

All browsers provide their own stylesheet which includes settings link colors (blue for unvisited and purple for visited, in IE's case), default padding and...

3 replies - 2264 views - 01/25/08 by David Walsh in News

Advanced CSS Printing -- Using CSS Page Breaks

I have one customer that absolutely insists his web pages print perfectly. Why? Because he refuses to look at his pages on the screen -- he tells his employees...

0 replies - 2524 views - 01/21/08 by David Walsh in News

6 Ajax Rules To Live By

Ajax, or Asyncronous Javascript And XML, has been around for a few years now. Web Developers have done some really great things with AJAX, but I've also come...

0 replies - 920 views - 01/21/08 by David Walsh in News