Archived posts, November 2007
AdvancED DOM Scripting (Book review)
Jeffrey Sambells and Aaron Gustafson explain the best practices of DOM scripting in an easy-to-read and straightforward way.
The rules of unobtrusive JavaScript
Chris Heilmann has defined seven rules for writing unobtrusive JavaScript.
Manual for Apple VoiceOver in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
A Getting Started guide for VoiceOver is available for download in a number of formats, including audio, PDF, and Braille.
Does advanced search sound too advanced?
Should advanced search be called something else to sound more friendly and inviting, and would it make more people to use it when they need to?
Use the label element to make your HTML forms accessible
By using the label element to associate form controls with their label text, you improve the accessibility of HTML forms and make styling and scripting them easier.
Keep browser lock-out a thing of the past
Browser sniffing and deliberately preventing people using a so-called unsupported browser from entering a site is a thing from the past that we do not need these days.
Virtual hosts, PHP and MySQL on Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
How to avoid problems when updating a Mac that doubles as a server for web development from Tiger to Leopard.
Screen readers sometimes ignore display:none
Using display:none does not always hide content from screen readers like JAWS and Window-Eyes, but there is a workaround.
The W3C process may be slow, but browser vendors are slower
Don’t blame the W3C for being slow when the real problem is browser vendors not implementing existing specifications fully and properly.
Common usability problems
A number of too common usability problems encountered on the Web.
POSH - Plain Old Semantic HTML
Teach people how to use plain old semantic HTML to create valid, well-structured, accessible and interoperable websites.
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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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