Archived posts, September 2007
Web project manager wanted at NetRelations
NetRelations are looking for a Web project manager for their Gothenburg office.
The Greenpeace Green my Apple campaign
I helped Veerle Pieters out with some of the front-end coding on the Greenpeace Green my Apple campaign site.
Designing Interfaces (Book review)
Jenifer Tidwell explains design patterns that solve common problems encountered when designing user interfaces for websites as well as web and desktop applications.
DOM Assistant 2.0 released
Robert Nyman has updated his DOM Assistant JavaScript library to version 2.0, adding chainability, Ajax and XPath support, and more.
Scrap text resize widgets and teach people how to resize text
Instead of wasting time and resources on building JavaScript widgets that resize the text on your site, teach people how to resize text in their browser.
The dilemma of comments
Allowing comments is a great way to get reader feedback, but because of frequent abuse managing comments takes a lot of time that could be spent on better things.
Web Standards Creativity (Book review)
Ten well-known Web professionals explain their approach to solving a specific problem each, all with web standards and accessibility in mind.
How to create an unobtrusive print this page link with JavaScript
How to create an unobtrusive print this page link that does not confuse users whose browsers do not support JavaScript.
10 colour contrast checking tools to improve the accessibility of your design
A list of tools that help make your design readable to all users by checking if text has sufficient contrast against its background.
Help improve support for Web Standards in HTML email
HTML email sucks, but it isn’t going away. So instead of complaining we should do what we can to help improve support for Web Standards in email clients.
Can the alt attribute be omitted without hurting accessibility?
In the current editor’s draft of the HTML 5 specification, the alt attribute for images is no longer required. I am not convinced that this is a good idea.
Mobile Web Design (Book review)
Cameron Moll explains how to design and develop websites for the incredible amount of people accessing the Web from their mobile phones.
Provide an accessible alternative if you must use a CAPTCHA
Visual verification of distorted characters displayed in an image is a major accessibility barrier to people who are visually impaired, blind, or dyslexic.
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About the author
Roger Johansson is a Swedish web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability. More about me and this site.
Latest articles
- Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider Comments off
- An analysis of the sites crawled by the bulk validation tool Nikita the Spider during March 2008.
- Authentic Jobs API and Affiliates program Comments off
- The Authentic Jobs job listing service now has a public API and an affiliate program.
- What does Acid3 mean to you and me? Comments off
- Opera and Apple have announced that their web browsers pass the Acid3 Browser Test, but how will that help web designers and developers?
- Designing Web Navigation (Book review) Comments off
- Learn the fundamentals of navigation design and design better navigation systems for large and small sites as well as for web based applications.
- DOMAssistant bundle for TextMate Comments off
- To save keystrokes and speed up development I have created a DOMAssistant bundle for TextMate.
- First impressions of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 Comments off
- My impressions after trying out Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 for a couple of days.
