Being a Web Developer
Before I start blogging about some more technical matters I want to write a little about being a Web Developer. I love it. For me it is just about the perfect job, exactly the right mix of science and...
View ArticleStandards.Next – Cognition and accessibility
On Saturday, 2009-09-19, the second Standards.Next event took place at City University in London, organised by Henny Swan and Bruce Lawson. This time the subject was ‘Cognition and accessibility’, a...
View ArticleTitle attributes
In many articles and blog posts on web accessibility use of the title attribute is promoted. Unfortunately this isn’t the magic bullet that many developers think it is, and I will argue for its use as...
View ArticleAlt attributes
Alt attributes are used to provide alternate text for non-textural HTML elements, most commonly on img elements. Generally their use is quite straight forward, but it is important that the attribute...
View ArticleWeb accessibility myths
There is a lot of good advice for the discerning web developer to find on the web on how to make a website accessible, unfortunately there is also plenty of bad or outdated advice out there as well....
View ArticleAccessibility is a human right
I’d like to add my own thoughts to those expressed by Vlad Alexander’s excellent article Is Web accessibility a human right?. This is a subject I feel strongly about. A sense of morality is all that I...
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