28 April 2009 | 13 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. Continue Autoplay is bad for all users…
27 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 Magnetic Block Puzzle…
19 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 Super quick overview of WCAG 2.0…
25 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 The Future of Web Design?…
8 March 2007 | 9 comments
In this series of articles I have described how to remove the deprecated attributes in HTML and replicate the styles using CSS. The first part looked at hspace and vspace, type and border. Part two described how to replicate link, alink and vlink, size, noshade and clear. In this final part I will be mopping up width, height, bgcolor and align. Continue CSS for Deprecated HTML Attributes: Part 3…