graphicdivine

HTML5 and what?

Mon, 14 Jun 2010 17:33:00 +0100

What I don't understand is why, on a page titled "HTML 5 and web standards"*, Apple are browser sniffing and won't let you in unless you use Safari? Browser War 2.0 anyone?

* or is it "HTML and the future" -- inaccurate alt text like this is Very Bad Practice, and also smacks of a last minute change of heart.

Ah, the irony of it all

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:49:00 +0100

You might think that of all people The Office of Disability Issues would manage to produce a fully accessible website, and on the surface, it's not bad.

Their failure, though, is both subtle and significant.

Lets start on the 'background to digital communications' page. All looks good. We have a tidy, consistent layout equipped with a clear navigation structure. Look what happens, though, if we pick an option from the menu at the top of the central content area, 'inclusive websites', for example. Suddenly our menu highlighting is gone, our breadcrumb trail is truncated, and we lose all sense of our location within the site heirachy.

It's not all about ALT texts and code validity. As the WCAG quicktips emphasise, we need to: "Make content appear and operate in predictable ways". Accessibility is about much more than disablity: it's about consistent design and robust information architecture.

w3c site bugs

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 09:18:00 +0100

While browsing for information on web authoring tools I came accross these two apparently un-populated boilerplate templates, and a nasty little menu bug.

http://www.w3.org/standards/agents/authoring.html |http://www.w3.org/standards/agents/browsers.html

Update

The menu bug has been quietly fixed.