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Converting British households to digital viewing is proving more difficult than expected - and could have major political repercussions, says Conal Walsh

Investing in new bed linen is a quick and easy way to give your bedroom a modern update. Here's our guide to the latest trends and how to choose and care for your bedding.

“Apple’s system preference pane for Universal Access: takes into account the probability that users needing assistance [...] would most likely appreciate larger, bolder text on that pref panel.” Might be nice to do for accessibility statements...

"You see a lot of links on sites which are for “Accessibility”, to provide both help for those with accessibility issues, and state what levels of accessibility the site is aiming for. However, I believe that this content should be split up between tw

"After personally observing users with disabilities interacting with websites in unexpected ways, I have come to believe strongly in the value of user research—and to suspect that we really don’t know quite as much about real-world accessibility as we

Bitten is a Python-based framework for collecting various software metrics via continuous integration. It builds on Trac to provide an integrated web-based user interface.

A wrapper to enable multi-project browsing of a Trac installation

A toolset that allows Information Architects to create an integrated and interactive deliverable from standard Visio files.

Great phrase: "We run automated tests and use cleaver scripts that allow us to get compliant but all we get is Check-box Accessibility (compliant but not usable)."

Its clear that the web accessibility community has been on a downward spiral for over a year now, but its not entirely clear why.

Waaaaah!

Open pages in Opera from Firefox and Mozilla context menus.

"Trenton Moss wrote up his thoughts on the future of accessibility (via Accessibility Blog), and the general accessibility implications of some new technologies. The points in the main section of the article are good, but I don’t think they provide suff

It's been seven years since the W3C released the first version of the web content accessibility guidelines (WCAG 1.0). Since then, accessibility has slowly but surely turned up on the radar of web managers in most large organisations.

t’s quite common for CSS authors to think that the warnings the CSS Validator reports are errors [...] Those particular warnings are there for accessibility reasons and to remind you that you need to take care when specifying colours.

Clients love to request [splash pages] and these are the arguments I use to shoot them down

Share and discover slides.

Expensive. "Deploy standardised mail signatures and disclaimers to both Outlook and Outlook Web Access pulling contact information from Active Directory or any database."

An extension for Showing and Exporting Microformats.

I’ve rarely seen the TABINDEX attribute applied without it creating more problems than it solves.

A family-owned 350-year-old forester's cottage in the heart of the New Forest national park.

A practical guide to web typography

What I’ve really longed for is an ultra-lightweight, simple tool for producing wireframes right inside the browser. No flash, no java, darn it - no server even - just a pure HTML / CSS / Javascript solution.

For Word to work correctly, however, there are several Golden Rules you need to followed.

RNIB weblog

Web authors who believe that they’re being thoughtful by making their ACCESSKEY choices alphabetic [...] Please think again. Using numeric characters is quite accessible enough.

alternative to faux columns

A stand-alone application which allows you to download an artist's MP3 files from MySpace even if the downloading of said song is disabled.

IE7 Bugs List

A mechanism for non-Yahoo applications to access Yahoo’s authentication mechanism and user data in a secure manner.

The #1 rule of good criticism is be specific.

there is the problem of how to 'monetise' Myspace activity. Advertising is an obvious answer, but the kinds of pages that Myspace users create - complete with flashing images, conflicting colours and unreadable text - are an ad man's nightmare.

A suite of tools and libraries that help make your life easier and your time more productive as a developer of AJAX and Mozilla applications.

It turns out there's a good kind of Agile, although it's taken me a long time to be able to see it clearly amidst all the hype and kowtowing and moaning feverishly about scrums and whatnot.

a 5 minute demonstration of the open source content management system eZ publish

Unless you have lots of legacy content that contains presentaional markup and cannot easily be converted or cleaned up, go Strict

In this page a problem that IE/Win has with italic text is described, with some (partial) fixes.

Fixing "the background flicker that happens when you hover a link that has an image as its backgound"

Nomensa investigated the accessibility of websites belonging to the top 30 most popular online retailers, based on visits from UK shoppers.

Usability agency Nomensa tested the retail websites and found that none fulfilled the most basic accessibility guidelines.

Training courses to bring developers, architects, and administrators up to speed with Subversion™ in a swift and cost efficient way.

A very early iteration of a microformats cheat sheet. It lists the properties by format and also lists each format and the hierarchy. This includes elemental microformats, compound microformats and some of the standard design patterns used.

Why do Macs, iPods, iBooks and the rest of their product range contain hazardous substances that other companies have abandoned?