Archived posts, March 2011

HTML5 sectioning elements, headings, and document outlines

Getting the document outline you want is not as easy as you might think if you want to use the new sectioning elements in HTML5.

Posted on March 1, 2011 in Accessibility, HTML 5

Ruby reading tips

Links to some online resources that are useful to anyone wanting to learn about programming in Ruby.

Posted on March 3, 2011 in Coding, Ruby

The IE6 countdown

Microsoft is trying to convince people to upgrade from IE6 through a website called The Internet Explorer 6 Countdown.

Posted on March 7, 2011 in Browsers

Flexible height vertical centering with CSS, beyond IE7

Using display:table to center a page layout vertically works in most browsers. There is an unfortunate issue with some screenreaders to be aware of though.

Posted on March 9, 2011 in Accessibility, CSS

Make your iPad and iPhone apps accessible

iOS has great potential for accessibility, but application developers need to do their part to make their apps fully accessible. Fortunately it seems pretty straightforward.

Posted on March 14, 2011 in Accessibility, iOS

Source order and display order should match

Using CSS to change the display order of content without also changing the order in the HTML source can cause accessibility issues and should be avoided.

Posted on March 17, 2011 in Accessibility, CSS

The CSS3 Flexible Box Layout (flexbox)

The Flexible Box Layout Model allows us to align and distribute boxes vertically and horizontally as well as have boxes flex to use all available space.

Posted on March 22, 2011 in CSS

Controlling and customising RSS feeds in WordPress

Making sure WordPress only creates the RSS feeds you want, the way you want them, and at the URLs you want them to be is not very straightforward, but it is possible.

Posted on March 24, 2011 in WordPress

Restaurant websites

Many restaurant websites suffer from bad usability problems. Never said about restaurant websites highlights some of these by using quotes of things people won’t actually say.

Posted on March 29, 2011 in Accessibility, Usability

X-UA-Compatible and HTML5

If you for some reason have to use the non-standard X-UA-Compatible header to force standards mode in IE, be aware that it is invalid HTML5. Fortunately it is easy to fix.

Posted on March 31, 2011 in Browsers, HTML 5, Web Standards