Archived posts, January 2005
Accessibility for the cognitively impaired
Accessibility is not just about visually impaired people.
An introduction to mod_security
An alternative to mod_rewrite for fighting comment and referrer spam.
Web Application Form Design
The pros and cons of different web form layouts.
Killing Referral Spam
One more way of keeping the trash out of your referrer logs.
The Firefox Explosion
The Wired 13.02 cover story on Firefox.
Design For Accessibility
A presentation on accessibility.
The writing process
A description of my workflow for researching and writing articles, followed by a discussion containing great tips from my readers.
2005 Bloggie finalists
Look carefully in the “Best web development weblog” category.
ECMAScript Menu System
An accessible, DOM compliant, collapsible menu system.
Display problems in Firefox
Recently a couple of readers contacted me, noting that they couldn’t see any comments on my site in Firefox. In…
Inheritance vs Cascade
Two fundamental CSS concepts that sometimes get mixed up.
IE and italics
Ever seen IE/Win ruin a layout just because a few words are in italics? I have.
Commenting update
Adding comments to posts at this site should be easier now.
Accessibility From The Ground Up
An accessibility primer for web designers.
Redundancy vs. Dependency
Different ways of dealing with CSS cascading.
Color Scheme Generator 2
Create balanced colour schemes and see what they look like to people with various colour vision deficiencies.
Tabular Weirdness
The caption element can be quite tricky to style.
The perils of using XHTML properly
A discussion of the issues involved in serving XHTML with the application/xhtml+xml MIME type.
Semantics of <span>
There are cases where span is the most appropriate element to use.
Getting Lost in Cyberspace
A presentation on accessibility problems with site navigation.
Web Essentials ‘04 notes
Notes from Joe Clark’s accessibility presentations at Web Essentials ‘04.
Killing referrer spam
Don’t want spammers in your referrer logs? Here’s how to get rid of them.
Untold Mysteries of CSS
Molly reveals some under-described CSS features.
Block vs. Inline
A three-part series of articles on block-level and inline-level elements in HTML and CSS.
More DWWS translations available
Read about web standards and accessibility in eight languages.
A rant about the state of blogging
No, we haven’t heard it all before. Not enough, anyway.
Favourite Mozilla and Firefox extensions
One of the things that make Mozilla and Firefox so great is the number of excellent extensions that are available…
Mouseover DOM Inspector
View the properties of any HTML element on a page.
Colour Contrast Check Tool
Check your colours for accessibility, complete with yummy sliders.
Big, Stark and Chunky
Designing for low-vision people is dramatically different.
@media 2005
A web standards and accessibility conference in London, this summer.
Mac mini
It’s here. Now there’s no excuse for any web professional to not buy a Mac.
A wish came true
I received a package in the mail today.
Turning a list into a navigation bar
How to use CSS to create a horizontal navigation bar out of a simple ordered list.
Navigation blindness
How to deal with the fact that people tend to ignore navigation tools.
Float Nightmares
Dave Hyatt is forced by other browsers to make Safari disregard the CSS standard.
Six Apart Guide to Comment Spam
How comment spam works and how to fight it.
Web Applications - The Wave Of The Future
Some thoughts on the future of web applications.
Accesskeys and keyboard shortcuts
Some thoughts on the implementation of shortcut keys on websites and in web applications.
Digital Proof–Fuel for the fire
A site dedicated to providing information on why you should not use Internet Explorer.
Complex Table Inspector
A tool for checking accessibility features of HTML tables.
2005 Weblog Awards Nominations
Go nominate me and your other favourites ;-)
Internet Explorer is free falling
Internet Explorer is losing market share faster and faster.
Guide to Unicode, Part 3
The third and final part of Lachlan Hunt’s very thorough article series.
Chapters hides itself from the validator
Hiding from the validator doesn’t make your site better.
Beware of Opening Links in a New Window
The top five reasons not to force links to open in new windows.
26 steps to 15k a Day
A guide to getting more traffic to your site.
BlogAid - help tsunami victims
Pledge your January site earnings to Earthquake and Tsunami appeal.
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Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. More about me and this site.
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