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- Juicy Studio: Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers juicystudio.com
The accessibility community is understandably concerned about the accessibility of client-side scripting, in particular using Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) to produce Rich Internet Applications.
- Make a User Style Bookmarklet squarefree.com
- PHP Ecommerce software for a coder? | Ask MetaFilter ask.metafilter.com
Modifiable out of the box ecommerce software recommendations for a coder, preferably PHP?
- box of chocolates » Ten Smart Moves to Improve your Business boxofchocolates.ca
- WCAG Samurai wcagsamurai.org
a group of developers, led by Joe Clark, that will publish corrections for, and extensions to, existing standards for Web accessibility. Our first area of interest is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, though we have not ruled out publishing er
- A List Apart: Articles: To Hell with WCAG 2 alistapart.com
"Where WCAG 2 breaks down is in the big stuff. Curiously, though, and perhaps due to meticulous editing over the years, the big stuff is well camouflaged and, to an uninformed reader, WCAG 2 seems reasonable. It isn’t, and you as a working standards-com
- rest/ahah - Microformats microformats.org
AHAH is a very simple technique for dynamically updating web pages using JavaScript. It involves using XMLHTTPRequest to retrieve (X)HTML fragments which are then inserted directly into the web page, whence they can be styled using CSS
- Alfresco - Open Source Enterprise Content Management (CMS) including Web Content Management alfresco.com
Open Source Enterprise Content Management (ECM) - Document Management, Collaboration, Records Management, Knowledge Management, Web Content Management and Imaging.
- RailsPlayground.com Ruby On Rails Hosting railsplayground.com
Cheap RoR hosting with built-in Subversion, Trac, and Bugzilla.
- jQuery: New Wave Javascript jquery.com
A new type of Javascript library. It is not a huge, bloated, framework promising the best in AJAX - nor is just a set of needlessly complex enhancements - jQuery is designed to change the way that you write Javascript.
- The future of CSS hacking | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
*+html{} hack for IE7 mentioned in comments
"Writing CSS is very much like having sex. Not everyone does it the same way and there is no particular “right” way to do it. I guess for me the similarities actually end there, seeing as writing CSS is something I do every day whereas having sex is
- James Mc Parlane's Blog - Why I Still Won't Use The prototype.js JavaScript Library blog.metawrap.com
I was not prepared for the amount of responses I got to my last article. There really are two camps - and they sit around fires making pointy sticks.
"What I and many many others have discovered is that using the prototype object on the Array and Object inbuilt types increases the chances that your code will conflict with existing or external code. It makes your code not play well with others, so once
- Google Web Toolkit - Build AJAX apps in the Java language code.google.com
A Java software development framework that makes writing AJAX applications like Google Maps and Gmail easy for developers who don't speak browser quirks as a second language.
Trying to build a scalable, maintainable, and extendable user experience on bad markup is like building a house on quicksand.
The list is not specific to any particular type of development position, but I tried to balance it between both the design/html/usability side of things and the back-end/database/programming side.
- Yahoo! UI Library: Reset CSS developer.yahoo.com
"This foundational CSS file offers cross-browser normalization of the default rendering of HTML elements. It also removes common default presentation such as bolding of strong elements, helping to ensure that all style is declared intentionally and that e
- Yahoo! UI Library: Grids CSS developer.yahoo.com
A suite of seven web page templates and the ability to nest grids of one to four columns within the content area of those templates.
- Accessites.org’s Web Accessibility Articles & News | Accessites.org: Selected Article accessites.org
Skip Link Pros and Cons
CSS Formatter and Optimiser (based on csstidy 1.1)
- Toggle (show/hide) elements in a Definition List tjkdesign.com
"Using a Definiton List and the DOM to create a nice FAQ page where clicking on the DTs (the questions) "toggles" the associated DDs (the answers)."
- Microsummaries - MozillaWiki wiki.mozilla.org
"Regularly-updated succinct compilations of the most important information on web pages. They are compact enough to fit in the space available to a bookmark label, provide more useful information about pages than static page titles, and are regularly upda
- CakePHP : the rapid development php framework cakephp.org
"A rapid development framework for PHP which uses commonly known design patterns like ActiveRecord, Association Data Mapping, Front Controller and MVC. Our primary goal is to provide a structured framework that enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly d
- BBC - My Web My Way - Homepage bbc.co.uk
Do you need help in making the web easier to use? This site explains the many ways you can change your browser, computer, keyboard and mouse settings to make the web more accessible for you.
- Accessibility statements and site viewing options | 456 Berea Street 456bereastreet.com
Glaucoma Research Foundation has a really well-written accessibility statement.
- Opera Mini™ for Mobile opera.com
A live demo of Opera Mini that functions exactly like it would when installed on a handset. Be advised that clicking on the screen does not work, instead use the phone's keypad.
- Openwave Developer Network - Tools & SDK - Openwave Phone Simulator developer.openwave.com
A free software development kit [featuring] the latest versions of the Openwave® Mobile Browser and Openwave® Mobile Messaging Client, as well as documentation and sample code for authoring wireless applications using XHTML/CSS and MMS-SMIL.
- MODx Content Management System | Home modxcms.com
An open source PHP Application Framework
"I wanted a robust javascript validation library that was simple to implement and didn't require me do any extra work other than creating the form. My favourite idea for a method of doing this is to utilise the field elements' class attribute to indicate
It’s time we designers stop thinking of ourselves as merely pixel people, and start thinking of ourselves as the creators of experiences. And when it comes to experience on the web, there’s no better way to create it than to write, and write well.
- Digital UK ad, advert | visit4info visit4info.com
Digital UK TV spots featuring Matt Lucas.
- Get set for digital | Digital UK digitaluk.co.uk
Television in the UK is going digital, bringing us all more choice and new services. Digital UK, the not-for-profit organisation set up by the public service broadcasters, is here to help.
Ajax accessibility. I knew nothing about it, so I ran some user tests and presented original research.
"For all of the excitement and hype, still very little has been said on the subject of AJAX and accessibility.
"Although many of us web professionals just 'kinda know' that AJAX is bad for web accessibility, when pushed many would not be able to say exactly why or how certain screen readers cope with content that's been changed using AJAX (or using DOM Scripting m
- The Man in Blue > CSS Love Child themaninblue.com
"[A] little bit of Perl scripting lets you take the HTML from one page, add the styles of another, and end up with a hideously mutated beast that can sometimes be amusing, sometimes be revealing, but most of the time looks like a fourth generation hillbil
- Bruce Lawson’s personal site : New windows in xhtml strict brucelawson.co.uk
Marked “considered harmful” [...] the comments are good, though
- Accessify Forum: Off-site links. Is rel="external" useful? accessifyforum.com
"Does the attribute/value set rel="external" provide a useful addition to navigation for those who might make use of other instances of the rel attribute? Or is it simply a case that it uses the rel convention without actually adding anything substantial
Top 5 reasons why you should beware of opening links in a new window.
When using PC-native file formats such as PDF or spreadsheets, users feel like they're interacting with a PC application. Because users are no longer browsing a website, they shouldn't be given a browser UI.
- getElementsByClassName Deluxe Edition | Muffin Research Labs muffinresearch.co.uk
My version has a few subtle differences up it’s sleeve.
- zooming content | weblog | donotremove donotremove.co.uk
Each page is based on what I'm calling a 'zooming' layout. By that I mean that the information view and relevance on the page zooms out as the page goes down.
- MediaGuardian.co.uk | Media | BBC unveils radical revamp of website media.guardian.co.uk
The BBC today unveiled radical plans to rebuild its website around user-generated content, including blogs and home videos, with the aim of creating a public service version of MySpace.com.
- :: reboot_frontpage :: open.bbc.co.uk
Help us discover what bbc.co.uk 2.0 looks like. We don't just want you to redesign the bbc.co.uk homepage, we want you take it all the way back to the drawing board…
- Semantics and design | And all that Malarkey stuffandnonsense.co.uk
There is a danger of adversly effecting semantics through incorrect use of CSS.
A twist on the Lightbox technique