This is an old project, now obsolete. Links have been redacted. Following the publication of a brief article on Search results design by Adaptive Path, I decided that revising my database search script was a valuable goal. Specifically, meeting the checklist in that result was probably not a bad idea! It’s not that the previous version was terrible, but I knew perfectly well that it could be much better. The additions to the script are pretty straightforward: Additions: Added: Made […]
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Web Accessibility is not SEO
There are numerous articles pointing out the business advantages of accessibility. Many of these reflect the similarity between accessibility and SEO. However, despite the close technical relationship between the needs of disabled users and the technical requirements of search engine optimization, the fact remains that the two goals are not the same, are not equivalent, and do not reflect the same ultimate goals. At their hearts, web accessibility and SEO are focused on optimizing different aspects of your web site: […]
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I actually wrote and published this almost two weeks ago — unfortunately, I accidentally wrote it as a page instead of a post, and didn’t notice. At any rate, I’m publishing it now, although it’s a bit after the fact… So, I know that I’ve been more than a little bit quiet lately. I’ve got some things in progress, but it’s been hard to focus in the heat! Nonetheless, I’ve just published an article at Practical eCommerce magazine entitled “Customer […]
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The whole world of spam is an accessibility nightmare. The concept behind web accessibility is to ensure that users can access the complete functionality of your web site — but how do you cope with the fact that spambots will happily take advantage of any hole you leave? Comment forms, contact pages, email addresses and enrollment forms. All methods of giving critical access to previously unidentified users — and all in positions where you just need to find that crucial […]
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Giving a talk is an interesting experience. In this case, with a time limit of 15 minutes, the biggest challenge was figuring out what I had time to cover. With a subject like web accessibility, I firmly believe that every aspect is critical — anything I leave out is something that somebody needs to know. But it’s 15 minutes. You can’t really be effective if you try and cover the entire scope of a subject in 15 minutes. The first […]
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