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- Juicy Studio: Choosing an Accessible CMS juicystudio.com
How do you go about choosing an accessible content management system (CMS)? What are the main criteria for success? And how to ensure ease of use for authors including screen reader users?
- Twitter (kottke.org) kottke.org
Maybe that's when you know how you've got a winner: when people use it like mad but can't fully explain the appeal of it to others. See also: weblogs, Flickr.
- phpsprockets - Google Code code.google.com
Sprockets are hierarchically created objects that can be progressively, logically defined and then rendered when needed. Sprockets play nice, coexisting with other code generators and template systems, and provide a great addition to MVC frameworks.
- DED|Chain™ JavaScript Library dedchain.dustindiaz.com
You get the reliability of Yahoo! UI, and the developer friendliess of jQuery. You also receive the benefits of an easily customizable A.P.I. which puts you in control of how you will work with the library.
- Subtraction: Oh Yeeaahh! subtraction.com
Creating some kind of definitive documentation about my approach to designing for the Web with the typographic grid as my primary layout tool.
- Parallax Background with Javascript and CSS inner.geek.nz
a multi–layered javascript experiment
"This tutorial will show that, with the right thought, pop-up windows can be used without upsetting anyone - particularly the person browsing your site." Be good to see a jQuery version...
This, I think, is when it’s time to bring out Flash. Not for the whole app of course, but used in conjunction with HTML/CSS/JS.
- ThickBox 2.1.1 jquery.com
ThickBox is a webpage UI dialog widget written in JavaScript on top of the jQuery library. Its function is to show a single image, multiple images, inline content, iframed content, or content served through AJAX in a hybrid modal.
- IE 7 does not resize text sized in pixels | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
It partly compensates for that by allowing the user to scale/zoom the entire page, including images (which quickly leads to massive horizontal scrolling because of its bad implementation).
- Why Web Accessibility Makes Sense » Introduction » Accessites.org » Powered by AutoRun accessites.org
This presentation will help you see the value of web accessibility and why it makes sense for you, as a web developer, and why it is a must-have for your clients.
"[With eyetracking] we can see that a user may navigate the page of an interface that houses the info she wants," she said, "but if the text is poorly presented, or the navigation is cluttered, or there are too many superfluous images so she cannot easily
- lalit dot lab lalit.org
JavaScript code to Detect available Fonts using JavaScript and CSS.
- Creating web sites for the Wii Opera browser bolinfest.com
JavaScript library that facilitates handling Wiimote keycodes
This article shows some of the new functionality of the proposed form chapter of HTML5: Web Forms 2.
- Opera developer tools - Opera Developer Community dev.opera.com
Opera now includes a developer console that can be added into the browser with many new features. The developer console includes new tools including DOM inspector, JavaScript inspector, CSS editor and HTTP header inspector.
- swfIR: swf Image Replacement swfir.com
swfIR gives you the ability to apply an assortment of visual effects to any or all images on your website.
Identifies the problematic parts of your message and makes recommendations for changes.
Here’s a detailed overview of the process we use for carrying out multiple assessments for projects like Better Connected, with some of the background about how we developed this process.
- A Roundup for “Developers, Developers, Developers…” solutionwatch.com
Products for project planning, system administration, usability testing, collaborative development, and web services.
- PNGGauntlet - PNG Compression Software | BRH.numbera.com brh.numbera.com
PNGGauntlet is a .NET program that uses Ken Silverman's PNGOut to optimize PNG files.
- Rapid coding collaboration: Springloops springloops.com
Hosted subversion with built-in deployment and Basecamp integration.
If you want to become involved in something worthwhile and whose purpose has been woefully mischaracterized, become a Web quality activist and lend some of that communication skill to this worthy social cause.
- Usable Cross Browser Font Sizing » Middleware Infrastructure mi6.ais.ucla.edu
"My opinion is still that using % in the body and em for units is superior is it allows for text resizing in IE/win, is less browser specific (both methods are foiled by the typographical workings of IE5, but the Keyword Approach stumbles in some versions
- Better Content Management through Information Architecture - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
To implement a successful content management system, we have to go beyond business process and technology and understand how the organization, as an organism, interacts with and uses its content.
- Good Experience - The Page Paradigm goodexperience.com
On any given Web page, users will either: 1. click something that appears to take them closer to the fulfillment of their goal, 2. or click the Back button on their Web browser.
- Coding Horror: Reducing Your Website's Bandwidth Usage codinghorror.com
FeedBlendr will grab all the feeds you enter and blend them up into a nice, thick, 'river of news' smoothie. You'll get a URL where you can subscribe to everything all at once.
Neither intranets nor extranets are offered to the general public and if software is a product then it's not a service – so you might think they're all irrelevant to the DDA. Not so.
- Web Accessibility Validation Tool, Check Accessibility Online by Truwex checkwebsite.erigami.com
Truwex manages website compliance with web accessibility, online privacy, quality standards.
find blogged photos, show flickr score, discover photos in explore and much more...
- Web Usability - Source Order, Skip links and Structural labels usability.com.au
Is page source order important to screen reader users?
- Speed Up Your Javascript Load Time | BetterExplained betterexplained.com
Javascript is becoming increasingly popular on websites, from loading dynamic data via AJAX to adding special effects to your page. Unfortunately, these features come at a price.
This article introduces the basics of cognitive psychology around colour and patterns -- what you need to know, and how it affects Web design in a nutshell.
The implications of having two camps for accessibility
- Browser testing CSS and JavaScript | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
My testing order, why I test in the browsers I do, and why I do it in that particular order.
- A List Apart: Articles: Where Our Standards Went Wrong alistapart.com
"We can all agree that the realities of the web make it hard to build a standards-compliant site. Once the client’s CMS, outdated WYSIWYG editors, and third-party advertising code have finished with once-valid markup, things begin to look ever-so-ugly u
- Six cool things you can build with OpenID simonwillison.net
OpenID is a simple piece of infrastructure on which smart applications can be built—applications that may not have been possible prior to the adoption of OpenID.
- The Guild of Accessible Web Designers | Introduction to WCAG AA self-study training course gawds.org
The aim of this course is to introduce you to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Priority 1 and Priority 2 checkpoints.
- PQuery - PHP and JQuery at NGCoders ngcoders.com
A set of helper classes for JQuery JavaScript library.This library allows you to easily integrate AJAX , Effects and other JQuery functionality into your PHP scripts.
So just what is a decorative image? It seems to me that one person’s eye candy is another person’s emotional link to a website.
- Tantek's Thoughts — 2007 February tantek.com
Three Hypotheses of Human Interface Design: "I'm calling these hypotheses instead of laws because they have yet to be proven out through rigrous scientific study and critique. I've developed them merely from anecdotes and examples."
- Future Of Web Apps, Day 2 readwriteweb.com
This is David's account of the second and final day of the Future Of Web Apps 2007 conference in London.
- The 55 Piece Mobile Search Tool Kit readwriteweb.com
55 piece tool kit for mobile search
- Jyte: Spread the Cred jyte.com
Make claims and share cred
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