So, Tim Berners-Lee (Sir) has a plan to Reinvent HTML (HyperText Markup Language). It’s an interesting idea. For years, it seems that HTML 4.01 was a closed book: story was finished, manuscript not to be picked up again. Instead, we were going to be moving on to XHTML (eXtensible HyperText Markup Language – HTML reformulated as XML (eXtensible Markup Language)). But suddenly we’re changing course: why? I can’t help but suspect that this is somewhat of an admission that the […]
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View your website structure as a graph
This is cool. Basically, this is a tool which studies the tag structure of your site and communicates it as a color-coded series of interconnected tags. Although this has little to do with web accessibility, it is an interesting way to visually communicate generalities about the structure of a website. If you read the original post by Aharef (get the funny joke in his handle?), you’ll get the opportunity to look at a variety of interesting graphs of major sites: […]
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I’m currently entering into the process of buying a house, so my thoughts are naturally finding ways to compare facets of buying a house with facets of web development. Today, I’m thinking of home inspection. When a home is inspected, the inspector will check out the building with two particular facets in mind: safety and function. Does it work? and Does it conform to building codes?. (I’m not going to go into the whole question of whether building codes mean […]
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Part of building an accessible website is making meaningful choices in the code you use to markup your content. In some cases, this is a very easy decision: <p> descrbes a paragraph, <blockquote> describes a blocked quote, and <acronym> describes an acronym. No problems. But some issues are more complex: take the calendar. What is the logical structure of a calendar? Is it tabular data? Is it an ordered list? Is it a definition list? All of these are completely […]
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Numerous articles in the last few days have suggested serious problems in either defining web accessibility or in the way it’s handled. Trenton Moss considers the future of accessibility. Alastair Campbell follows up with his own opinions. Gez Lemon and Mike Cherim co-published an article outlining two supposedly opposing views of accessibility at Accessites. Roger Johansson chimed in with his reasoning for universality. And, to cap if off, Mike Davies wrote an excellent (if possibly inflammatory) four-part series declaring Accessibility […]
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