Inside guardian.co.uk blog post
December 2009 | No comments
I’ve just written a post over at the Inside guardian.co.uk blog about how, as a team, we’re trying to improve the client-side for our users.
December 2009 | No comments
I’ve just written a post over at the Inside guardian.co.uk blog about how, as a team, we’re trying to improve the client-side for our users.
April 2009 | 11 comments
Autoplay is a bad idea not just for accessibility but for usability and general sanity while browsing. This article will explain what the problems are, where to find backup for arguments and what you can do if autoplay is a must have.
Autoplay of embedded audio and video clips is often requested from clients for a number of reasons, one is to increase view/listen stats when an advert is preceding it and fewer views can mean less revenue. Continue reading Autoplay is bad for all users…
April 2009 | No comments
I bought a new iPhone game the other day called Magnetic Block Puzzle and turns out it’s quite fun and thought I’d recommend it to you all.
It’s priced at £1.19 (or $2 depending which Apple Store you’re using) and for the game content I think it’s worth the splash. It’s less than the price of a cup of coffee but lasts longer and is much more addictive! Continue reading Magnetic Block Puzzle…
May 2008 | No comments
The W3C released the Candidate Recommendation of the WCAG 2.0 at the end of last month. Since then there have been numerous posts on this fact, but nothing up-to-date on the guidelines themselves. I haven’t really seen anything new since a draft version I first started looking at in July last year. Here is my super quick overview of the documentation and guidelines – and by super quick I mean just that, there is no specific detail walk through of each success criterion. Continue reading Super quick overview of WCAG 2.0…
April 2007 | 2 comments
I think what we all took away from the latest conference is that the Future of Web Design isn’t clear yet. It expanded on a conversation I had with a friend the other day where we decided that in the last few months web standards has hit a lull. During @media2005 everyone was so excited to be there talking shop and swapping ideas that we couldn’t wait to get back to our desks to put into practice what we’d been shown – zoom layouts, microformats, etc. But fast foward 2 years and there just isn’t anything to get our teeth into. Continue reading The Future of Web Design?…