Archived posts, May 2007
Bulletproof Ajax (Book review)
Jeremy Keith explains how to use Ajax in an unobtrusive manner, minimising the negative impact it can have on accessibility.
Accessible expanding and collapsing menu
Using JavaScript to turn a nested list into an accessible dynamically expanding and collapsing menu.
WCAG 2.0 Working Draft May 2007: A closer look
Jack Pickard has taken a good look at the latest Working Draft of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0, and likes what he sees.
Is it time for CSS 2.2?
Is it time to form a 2nd Generation CSS Samurai to create a CSS 2.2 specification?
Why styling form controls with CSS is problematic
Eric Meyer explains the technical reasons for form controls being so hard to style consistently across platforms.
Creating bulletproof graphic link buttons with CSS
How to use CSS and two images to create flexible, shrinkwrapping, image based link buttons.
WCAG 2.0 Working Draft updated
The WCAG Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of WCAG 2.0 and issued a new Call for review.
Use only block-level elements in blockquotes
Blockquote elements are only allowed to contain block-level and script elements in Strict Doctypes.
O’Reilly sites implement ReadSpeaker voice technology
The same technology that I use to offer an audio version of my RSS feed is now used across the O’Reilly network of websites.
Another look at HTML 5
Further thoughts on the HTML Working Group and HTML 5, plus a few suggestions.
Is HTML 5 a slippery slope?
Tommy Olsson comments on the possibility of backwards compatibility and standardised error handling being bad for overall code quality.
The Principles of Beautiful Web Design (Book review)
Jason Beaird explains the principles of graphic design for the Web in a way that people who aren’t graphic designers can understand.
Help keep accessibility and semantics in HTML
If you think accessibility and semantics are important and should be improved in the next version of HTML, you need to act.
Browsers will treat all versions of HTML as HTML 5
Browsers claiming to support HTML 5 are required to treat all text/html content according to the HTML 5 specification.
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