After the less-than-positive reaction to the complexity of the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.0 working draft released for last call comments on April 27th, the WAI appears to have responded with the release of a quick reference to the success criteria and how to meet them. One of the main reasons that WCAG 2.0 is so difficult to understand is that it was written with the intention not to require reference to a particular technology. Thus, from a practical […]
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Blog has been changed over to WordPress!
Hello! This is just an announcement that Joe Dolson’s accessible design blog has changed platforms from Blogger to WordPress. All existing links to pages in the blog should continue to work, and I’m hoping to make certain everything is clean and dandy as I move forward. Today, all posts and comments were migrated over – there’s still a fair amount of clean up to be done, but the big steps went OK. However, I do need to mention the whole […]
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I read an article today by Roger Johansson where he mentioned an interesting situation surrounding the use of high resolution screens. The impact of these newer screens is not something widely considered; but it’s certainly important! Newer laptop screens are beginning to come available using higher than usual resolution – that is, they have more pixels crammed into a particular area of screen than the normal 72 or 96 DPI. This can have an unfortunate effect for websites, because all […]
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One chronic problem in writing web development articles is keeping your writing readable. The world of web design, programming, and web accessibility is loaded with industry terminology which are undoubtedly not immediately obvious in meaning to someone who’s just begun researching the subject. However, neither the option of excluding all industry terminology from an article nor the option of including a definition inline for every term is really palatable for me. With the first option, the article becomes simplified to […]
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Well, it’s a work in progress, so it keeps mutating bit by bit. Today, I fixed a minor bug which caused some images to be produced at the wrong length and added the ability to use a wider variety of colors for your poll images. No longer are you restricted to monochromatic! The whole rainbow is available. Aww, how cute. At any rate, the new package is available and you can download it as you please. Afterthought: Oh yeah, I […]
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