I’ve never really understood why people use transitional doctypes. Perhaps this comes from my time working in libraries: 7 years being beaten over the head with MARC format and various other library standards gave me a sense for correct coding before I ever sat down and decided to develop websites. Data formatting is, believe it or not, quite important. The power of XML (eXtensible Markup Language) is wrapped up in formatting – if you’ve left off a closing tag or […]
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Lack of Access = Barrier to Access
This case arises out of Target’s policy and practice of denying the blind access to Target.com, including the goods and services offered by Target stores through Target.com. Due to Target’s failure and refusal to remove access barriers to Target.com, blind individuals have been and are being denied equal access to Target stores, as well as to the numerous goods, services and benefits offered to the public through Target.com First Amended Complaint, Article 24, National Federation of the Blind, et al […]
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Accessites.org is a site with a mission. Founded by accessible web designer Mike Cherim, the site honors the best of accessible web design. Accessites accepts submissions of sites for review and meticulously separates the best sites for awards. Since the founding of the site in late December of 2005, 179 sites have been submitted and 35 have received awards – with a backlog of only 16 pending sites. The way Accessites operates is through a panel of accessible developers who […]
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Well, I’m back from my travels (more on that later), and I’d say that what seems the most interesting to me in the mountains of documents metaphorically sitting in my inbox is the introduction of Google’s Accessible Web Search. The idea is absolutely valuable, in my mind. Like other indexes of accessible web sites, it gives the impaired user the ability to search knowing that what they find will also be something that they can actually use. However, having a […]
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Philipp Lenssen, of Google Blogoscoped, has written his top 9 Ways to Misunderstand Web Standards. This is a must-read! The comments are pretty good, too – although certainly some of them just don’t get it: QUOTE: when your image is a mere illustration to a point you’re repeating elsewhere in the text, there’s no need at all to use the alt text. Absolutely wrong. There is much benefit to be had, most notably for search engines. In general I find […]
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