Archived posts, October 2007
Job opening for an ASP.NET developer in Stockholm
NetRelations are looking for a standards aware ASP.NET developer for our Stockholm office. Come join us.
CSS diagnostics with XRAY and MRI
John Allsopp has written a couple of handy bookmarklets that help you troubleshoot CSS without having to install a browser extension.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard improves accessibility
It’s encouraging to note that many of the new features in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard are not just visual bells and whistles, but are there to improve accessibility.
Mac OS X Web browser rundown 2007
A rundown of the Mac OS X Web browsers that occupy space on my hard drive in late 2007.
Adobe Spry 1.6 improves standards support, adds progressive enhancement
Adobe’s JavaScript framework Spry has been updated and is now more standards compliant and less obtrusive.
Autopopulating text input fields with JavaScript
When you cannot display a label for a text input field, use placeholder text in an unobtrusive way. This article explains how.
Videos of people using assistive technology
A set of fantastic videos that show how people with various disabilities use computers with the help of assistive technology.
Helping your client maintain markup quality
By using CSS rules that make deprecated and potentially inaccessible markup clearly visible to the editor, you can help your clients maintain markup quality.
The resurrection of downloadable Web fonts
Downloadable fonts in TrueType format are now supported by nightly builds of Apple WebKit. Will it catch on this time around?
Update on the Target accessibility lawsuit
The US-based retailer Target has been sued for refusing to make their website accessible. The lawsuit has now been given class-action status.
NoSquint allows site-specific text zoom
A Firefox extension that remembers your text zoom level per site. Anyone know of a Safari alternative?
Recent interviews and articles
Links to a few interviews with me and articles I am quoted in that have been published recently.
Information, sponsorship, and externals
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.
