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This tool allows you to visualise good colour combinations on a Photoshop style colour picker. It's primary use is finding acceptable colours from an existing inaccessible combination - while maintaining the aesthetic appeal of the original.

Employ Gæoudjiparl Van Den Dobbelsteen : June 2007

Nuts. I like it.

Khoi Vinh interviews Olav Frihagen, creator of Blueprint framework.

The Juicy Studio Luminosity Contrast Ratio Analyser and the example luminosity contrast ratios have been updated to match the latest version of the draft Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0

The more engaged users are, the more features an application can sustain. But most users have low commitment -- especially to websites, which must focus on simplicity, rather than features.

BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring “Hello Kitty,” the Japanese icon of cute, as a mark of shame, a senior officer said Monday.

— Bad Thai cops to endure Kitty shame

a short list of issues and bugs that I have come across when working towards accessible Flash sites. These are all focused on the Flash Player in the Browser.

Midnight Inbox - the complete personal organization experience

How to Grow a Tea Garden - wikiHow

A tea garden is a delightful hobby that can complement your herb garden and will provide you with the joy of fresh tea at a moment's notice.

Blueprint is a CSS framework, which aims to cut down on your CSS development time. It gives you a solid CSS foundation to build your project on top of, with an easy-to-use grid, sensible typography, and even a stylesheet for printing.

A comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript programming language.

A simple rule for good web sites: content is golden. In an accessibility context, structured content is golden. It a core responsibility of the site owner to ensure this is followed (not just the developer).

"Content is the heart of a brilliant user experience. From the body content to the alt text to the footer, the words that shape the page lie at the very center of an engaging visit." Amen.

...use SVK?

"svk is a decentralized version control system built with the robust Subversion filesystem. It supports repository mirroring, disconnected operation, history-sensitive merging, and integrates with other version control systems, as well as popular visual m

Dust-Me Selectors is a Firefox extension (for v1.5 or later) that finds unused CSS selectors.

Now that I have an Intel-based Mac with Parallels and Boot Camp for running Windows, I have found the perfect screen reader testing system.

"Calibrate the battery in your MacBook or MacBook Pro every month or two to keep your battery functioning at its fullest capacity." Unexpected hassle.

"In this post, we will demonstrate with charts and real data several behavioral patterns related to scrolling." No such thing as the fold - useful background for this POV.

A free, open source theme for the WordPress blog engine designed to allow paragraph-by-paragraph commenting in the margins of a text.

Paste your CSS into the field below, the specificity of your selectors will be calculated for you.

Use this tool to find CSS selectors that aren't used by any of your HTML files and may be redundant.

The one-stop resource for tumblelog information, setup, modifacation, themes, or anything else.

Good question but from the responses it would seem not.

Which is better for my shiny new Mac?

Download the self-extracting executable, double-click, and place the resulting 'django' folder in a convenient location. You can even carry it around with you on a USB thumb drive.

"...analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool." Hurrah, been waiting for this since @media.

isolatr beta

“Helping you find where other people aren’t.”

"I'm designing a small site for a restaurant, and all my client will really need to do is replace the content on existing pages (menus, reviews, news/events) rather than adding and archiving lots of content. My dream solution would also have a pretty simp

Holding on to this disbelief – this myth that users won’t scroll to see anything below the fold – is doing everyone a great disservice, most of all our users.

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Name and design your player, then fill it with videos from your videos or playlists. Once you've generated the embed code and saved the player, you can copy and paste the code to your website or blog.