We have recently added WAI ARIA landmark roles to accessible.ie, to improve navigation for visitors using assistive technologies. The diagram below shows how the sections of the page are divided into logical chunks. (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘standards’
WAI ARIA
Monday, November 2nd, 2009Blogging and Accessibility
Monday, November 19th, 2007Election ‘07 was heralded as the first “online election”. For the first time, Irish politicians attempted to connect with voters through various online resources, from Bebo pages to election campaign videos on YouTube. One of the most pervasive features of the various online campaigns was the politician’s blog. All the major parties were represented in the blogosphere, from the top down. Party leaders had their say on Rock The Vote, where the musings of Bertie, Enda, Pat et al could be read. (more…)
Pop-up Windows [Part 2]
Wednesday, March 14th, 2007Pop-up Window Usability
Thanks to browser improvements we can browse the web again without being bothered by all those pop-up windows. But what about those occasions when we want pop-ups? Good blockers are designed in such a way that they should allow pop-up windows that we have explicitly requested; such as a straightforward link that simply opens in a new window. However, things are not always as simple as this. To open the web version of AOL’s instant messenger pop-up application, the user must click on a link (which should be enough to let the browser know that the pop-up is solicited), but the window is blocked. (more…)
Printing from the Web
Friday, November 24th, 2006Transferring content legibly from the screen to paper has never been a particularly easy task, especially considering the trouble encountered by most web designers dealing with different screen sizes and platforms. Despite this, it makes sense to cater for users who wish to print web content, as it is well known that many people have problems reading large pieces of text from a computer screen. Those web designers who have bothered to cater for users both on the screen and on paper have historically used one of two techniques: (more…)
Why web standards can be good for business too
Monday, July 31st, 2006The advantages of the web standards approach are well documented both here on accessible.ie, and elsewhere. However, these discussions normally focus on the advantages the approach brings to the end user. There are also many benefits for the business or individual responsible for the site. (more…)
Introducing the Cascading Style Sheet
Tuesday, September 6th, 2005Jakob Nielsen said it in 1997. Jeffrey Zeldman reiterated it two years later. Cascading Style Sheets were, then, the way to go.
By now, most of the web design and development community use CSS to control the style of a website, all who said go, were right.
What is CSS?
CSS, as Wikipedia explains, is a “style-sheet language used to describe the presentation of a document written in markup language” such as HTML. (more…)