Archived posts, February 2008
The WCAG Samurai Errata are now available
The WCAG Samurai have released version 1 of their list of corrections for and updates to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.
DOMAssistant 2.6 released
The lightweight JavaScript library DOMAssistant has been updated to version 2.6, with really fast CSS selectors, a plugin model, a development team, and more.
Doctype switching for IE 8
Version targeting as it has been presented is an incredibly bad idea to force upon the minority of people in the web industry who have a clue.
Design Accessible Web Sites (Book review)
Jeremy Sydik explains how to design accessible websites without focusing too much on guidelines and ticking checkboxes, choosing a more pragmatic approach instead.
Beware of id and name attribute mixups when using getElementById in Internet Explorer
When using getElementById to get a reference to an element via the id attribute, IE may return an element whose name attribute contains the value you’re matching.
Make sure your website works with or without www
Make sure your website is available whether or not the visitor has typed www in front of your domain name.
Looking for open source CMS and portal software options
Since more and more clients are asking about open source options for content management and portal software, I’m looking for suggestions and recommendations.
Helping others understand web accessibility
Accessibility is sometimes harder to get into than it should be. The documentation is hard to read and we can all do a little bit more to help each other.
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.
