Just over three years ago I wrote an article called Autoplay is bad for all users. It was written a few months after WCAG 2 became a formal recommendation but before HTML5, particular the video element, had really gone into mass production.
Much, if not all, of that article still holds true today but there are a couple of points to add to it. (more…)
A new domain is born—wai-aria.punkchip.com—a place for me to keep all the great articles and links I found about ARIA. (more…)
A while ago I wrote ‘It’s not HTML5! But that’s ok’ and then I finished a web standards version of The Guardian’s interactive in order to prove they do not require Flash. So when I saw I had been mentioned on The Guardian website’s technology section I was excited! (more…)
The Guardian Interactive Team use Flash, almost exclusively, to create data visualisations and infographics for interactive content on guardian.co.uk. The two main reasons are that it is quick to build and that it looks identical in all browsers. (more…)
Web 2.0, AJAX and now HTML5 – all buzz words that have got non-developers a little bit more excited about web development and me using a lot more /facepalm.
As a developer you know what these buzzwords mean and can read between the lines when asked for an HTML5 site. They don’t really want a site full of offline-storage, data-* attributes, video and audio elements but you can give them one that is progressively enhanced and standards compliant. (more…)
