DickBlog - Not much original comment, but lots of great resources - Accessibility

Why You Should Right Align Form Labels?

Wed, 02 Aug 2006 14:45:00 +0100

Swapnonil Mukherjee offers a good explanation as to Why you should right align form labels. He suggests by showing good examples that you eye must travel a smaller distance to navigate from form field to form field when the labels are right aligned.

Check Your Site

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 10:35:00 +0100

The Scrutinizer is an interesting site. It allows you to analyze your site against validators, Accessibility, Alternate Access, site access and load times, Browser Compatibility etc etc. From the site:"Rather than creating direct links to various validators and link analyzers, one link can be used to submit to all of them. It simplifies the task of figuring out which application needs what type of URL (Domains only/HTTP/No HTTP) and also saves time and space by freeing up the code from unneccessary URLs."

Accesibility Testing

Sun, 21 Aug 2005 22:43:00 +0100

Since the Booby site went commercial there hasn't been an easy way to test a site. Now there is Cynthia Says, WebXACT, HiSoft, Site Valet and WebAIM Wave. all discussed here at JuicyStudio.

JK Rowling Website

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:49:00 +0100

The JK Rowling Flash/ColdFusion website has been praised for it accessibility.

A Better Way to Enter Dates

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:23:00 +0100

Simon Willison has created a better way of entering dates for your web applications. Inspired by PHP’s strtotime function, Simon’s JavaScript code accepts a string in a wide variety of formats and converts it in to a time. You can enter simple expressions like:

Today
Tod
tomorrow
tom
yesterday
6th
6th October

Samples of Accessible Flash

Wed, 30 Mar 2005 16:16:00 +0100

Here are some publicly available examples of accessible Flash.

An Introduction to CSS and Structured Markup

Thu, 24 Mar 2005 14:55:00 +0100

Sandra Clark has started a great series of articles at the Fusion Authority.

Some points of note:

For some reason, the XML prolog (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>) throws Internet Explorer 6 into quirks mode.
Because the [xHTML] specification requires that a DOCTYPE be the first line of a page, I tend to place my DOCTYPE in Application.cfm (as the first line).
In HTML, there are some attributes which have no value. For example, an input tag could have <option selected>. In xHTML, this must be set at <option selected="selected">. Just make sure the attribute name and the value are the same.

An Introduction to CSS and Structured Markup, Part I

Colour Contrast Check

Wed, 16 Feb 2005 13:53:00 +0100

The Colour Contrast Check is a very simple web-based tool that allows you to specify a foreground and a background colour and determine if they provide enough of a contrast when viewed by someone having color deficits. A great tool to add to your accessibility toolbox.

Developing Sites for Users with Cognitive Disabilities and Learning Difficulties

Tue, 01 Feb 2005 09:23:00 +0100

When we think of building accessible websites, we tend to focus on the visible disabilities. Juicy Studio has a phenomenal article on Developing sites for users with Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties.

The Right Way to Use Tables

Thu, 20 Jan 2005 09:47:00 +0100

Some examples of good practice in utilising tables.

http://www.456bereastreet.com/archive/200410/bring_on_the_tables/

Colour Contrast Check

Fri, 14 Jan 2005 17:52:00 +0100

http://wellstyled.com/tools/colorscheme2/index-en.html

Firefox Screen Reader Emulator

Sat, 08 Jan 2005 12:26:00 +0100

Fangs is a Firefox extension that emulates a screen reader. It creates a textual representation of a web page similar to how the page would be read by one of the modern screen readers.