I downloaded Firefox 3.0 this afternoon and ran into something that’s a wee bit annoying. Firefox’s interface includes a smooth, single-toned grey top to all its windows. Here’s the Preferences window (cropped for size issues; click on the image to see the full-size):
Looking at this, you would think that anywhere in the dark grey area [...]
It’s CSS Naked Day 2008. Time to expose your naked <body> to the world. What the hell am I talking about?
The idea is to promote Web Standards. Semantic, clean XHTML combined with proper site structure should make a site usable and accessible without relying on CSS. Do you have alt attributes for your images? Do [...]
Matt Mullenweg writes:
I’m at An Event Apart in Chicago and Eric Meyer just said that browser statistics were “worse than useless.†More specifically, the only browser share numbers that matter are the one for sites you run, not what the web at large uses.
Eric is referring to a post he wrote in 2004: “Don’t Care [...]
I’ve looked at six of the 2008 Presidential candidates’ website, examining them to see how accessible the sites are. Mind you, I just did a cursory overview and I’ve summarized my findings in the table below. The original reviews are still available here on my site in the “Accessibility” category. Since some time has passed [...]
John Edwards’ campaign site is the subject of this quick accessibility overview.
Tabbing through main navigation menu , one finds the nested unordered lists do not become visible when tabbing through. A keyboard user would not know where he is on the page without the fly-out effect working with focus was set on the nested list [...]
Governor Mitt Romney’s campaign site has, like the others I’ve looked at, some strikes against it with regards to accessibility. His home page has an auto-starting audio clip of Governor Romney thanking people for visiting the site and asking for donations to the campaign. There are no stop, start, pause or volume controls. Luckily it’s [...]
Continuing my look at United States Presidential campaign websites, I took a look at Rudy Giuliani’s site. Like the other sites I’ve seen, better attention needs to be given to the use of alt tags. The main image on Giuliani’s site has no alt tag. This is the image that serves as the link to [...]
John McCain’s website is a challenge. There are some fundamental problems with it.
First off, there is no DOCTYPE. For those not aware, a DOCTYPE is the statement that tells a browser, Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc., what type of code the page is written in and how to present it. It is the first and most [...]