Social networking is the big thing, whether it’s entertainment or professionally focused. But it’s a big thing that falls into the same trap as many services on the internet. It marginalises or blocks out people who require greater accessibility on the internet, or special consideration from web designers.
Accessibility is about far more than just fulfilling [...]
The internet is where I live, and like any resident I know the odd bus routes, the fact that it’s better to change at Warren Street rather than Goodge Street on the subway, that you can take a shortcut down that side road to save ten minutes on the journey.
If you read this blog you’re [...]
If you move a page on a website to a different address it can have an impact both on your search engine ranking and on your site’s overall usability and accessibility. I talked a while ago about the importance of using custom error pages on a site and discussed specifically the custom “404 page not [...]
One of the biggest and most frustrating problems for any web designer is the differing behaviour of different web browsers when it comes to rendering pages. These differences stem from how browser software supports various features and standards such as CSS, HTML, etc. Yet ensuring cross-browser compatibility is essential in terms of making web design [...]
Sometimes the smallest things can make a big difference, and that’s also the case when it comes to accessibility.
If you are targetting, or want to cater for, an audience that is browsing in a non-standard way, such as utilising a screen reader or is using keyboard only, then one small change to your web code [...]
Today I’m going to talk a little about UK legislation and its impact on web accessibility, particularly in relation to users with disabilities. As we examined yesterday, government websites often fail to practise what they preach, but in UK terms the problem is as much that they don’t preach anything! Unlike US government legislation such [...]
