Archived posts, November 2009
Results from WebAIM’s screen October 2009 screen reader user survey
The results from WebAIM’s October 2009 screen reader user survey have been posted. Some results are expected while others can be a bit surprising.
New accessibility overview on the W3C website
The new W3C website has a new and very good summary of the why, what, and how of Web accessibility.
Authentic Jobs refreshed
Job listing site Authentic Jobs has been redesigned, realigned, retooled and relaunched.
Happy 5th birthday, Firefox!
Thank you, and other modern browsers like Safari and Opera, for changing the Web.
Headings and document structure conclusions
There appears to be no single solution to heading structure in HTML that fits all situations, but as I see it there are two choices.
WebKit Web Inspector improvements
The web developer tool for Safari and other WebKit-based browsers has just received a number of improved and new features worth checking out.
Vendor-specific extensions are invalid CSS
Vendor-specific extensions, even if written according to the CSS 2.1 grammar, use property names and values that are not defined in the CSS specification and are invalid.
Do you find table summaries helpful?
Looking for input from screen reader users with regards to the usefulness of the summary attribute for data tables and the information provided in it.
Microsoft talks about Internet Explorer 9
News on what we can expect from the next version of Internet Explorer: highlights include improved performance, CSS 3 selectors, and better text rendering.
CSSquirrel makes comics out of hot topics
At cssquirrel.com, Kyle Weems turns hot web related topics into enjoyable comics that should make a lot of web geeks smile.
XHTML 1.0 helped improve the Web
Jeffrey Zeldman on how the stricter and clearer rules of XHTML 1.0 made many web professionals improve their markup.
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