Links from 2006

The WaiZilla project is the first open source project aimed at producing a cross platform web-site accessibility testing tool.

This website is mainly about my books and some things I find interesting. Among other things, you'll find some short stories, some recipes, a vegan FAQ, lots of stuff about my books and some links to other sites.

Is there a way to display text-based data on a map, keeping it accessible, useful and visually attractive? Yes: using an accessible CSS-based map in which the underlying map data is separated from the visual layout.

"An analysis/study of techniques for "skip navigation" links (also "skip to main content" links) which resulted from an assignment I had in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines working group, Techniques task group."

A simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It's a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.

"Explore the architecture and history along London’s River Thames

The executive summary: SpiffyCorners is an online generator that allows easy production of rounded corners on content boxes (DIVs).

Cunning...

"It’s always seemed a bit wrong and dirty to use innerHTML to manipulate or add content to a page. It’s not a standard (more of an agreement between browser manufacturers) and it doesn’t work on some browsers with certain mime-types while the core p

Hoary old cmd.exe does have a few tricks up its sleeve that you may not know about.

Content managers often turn a blind eye to the hundreds of thousands of PDF files sitting on their servers, downloaded every day... and 99% of them, hideously inaccessible, and utterly non-compliant with Section 508.

A step-by-step guide that covers the basics for creating and optimizing Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files so that they can be made accessible to users with disabilities such as blindness or low vision.

In order for a PDF to be truly accessible two conditions must be met

Good timing.

A Guide to CSS Support in Email details the level of support for CSS in the most widely used email clients. The guide includes email software for Windows and Mac OS as well as web based email clients.

It became very clear to me just how inadequate [checking against WCAG, using simple tests like increasing text size, browsing with Lynx, and navigating with keyboard] was in truly determining whether or not the site was accessible

Accessible, usable websites built with universality and standards in mind need not be boring

BCS interviews Sir Tim: "Another important area of professionalism is accessibility awareness. Everyone should be accommodated, especially when around 20 per cent of the population have special requirements."

With cl1p.net you can copy and paste between computers. Just enter in any URL that starts with http://cl1p.net and post. Then from any other computer enter the same URL and copy.

"Developers are encouraged to use summary, headers, axis, scope, and abbr for complex data tables to aid usability and accessibility. To help developers determine if they've used those features correctly, I've created a complex table inspector bookmark th

Interesting. "You design. We transform it into XHTML/ CSS."

Well, that needs fixing...

A research project financed by the Information Society Technologies Programme of the European Commission priority of the Sixth Framework Programme (Action Line e-Inclusion).

An easy to use HTML validator implementation which doesn't use the official W3C DTD's. It rather validates HTML documents using it's own schema definitions written in Relax NG with embedded Schematron patterns.

"The aim of the "Relaxed" project is to allow automated validation of additional restrictions which are expressed just verbally in the text of different HTML standards."

"The EIAO project will establish the technical basis for a European Internet Accessibility Observatory. Frequently updated assessment data will be available online from a data warehouse providing a basis for benchmarking, policymaking, research and action

Nice, but can't get it to stop trimming my empty image-replacement spans. Finer degree of control would be useful.

“Wireframing AJAX is a bitch.” [...] while I can’t deny the statement, I do think there are steps we can take to alleviate the pain."

BTCV Green Gym groups meet in their local area at least once a week. A Green Gym session lasts for up to three hours. During this time you will be doing environmental conservation or gardening activities with a trained leader.

So why are we hooked on throwing away razors encased in plastic?

"Simply select the leaflet(s) you would like and you will be presented with a choice of whether you wish to view and download a PDF of the leaflet(s) - where possible - or submit your request to us to receive a copy, giving your name, address, email and t

More on SVS: "Safely install software in a virtual layer".

CreativePublic is your one-stop shop for quality forms, contracts, employee manuals, company policies and pricing for graphic designers. Download free samples.

Based on Suckerfish HoverLightbox this one uses my multi-page layout system but includes images instead of text. Unlike the Suckerfish HoverLightbox this version is pure CSS.

New Douglas Copeland novel, June 2006, Bloomsbury.

An online accessibility testing tool designed to visually convert a full-color web page into a grayscale rendition for the purpose of visually testing the page’s perceived contrast.

Why it's important to label Web pages with character encodings

Collaborative whiteboard thingummy