After a long wait, the W3C have finally announced that the web content accessibility guidelines has now made it to a W3C recommendation. For the full press release form the W3C please read W3C Web Standard Defines Accessibility for Next Generation Web
Category Archives: Web Design
WCAG 2.0 now a W3C Recommendation
12 Principles For Keeping Your Code Clean
There’s a lot of list based content around at the moment that has blatantly been posted as link bait on popular sites like Digg and Reddit, and whilst I usually have a quick read it’s very rare that I link out to such lists. However, Chris Coyier wrote an article last week that I agreed with 100% and felt that it deserved some recognition here for any of my readers that missed it on Smashing Magazine.
Good Alt Text for Images
Adding an alt attribute to an image is easy in theory but in practice, making sure that the alt text is informative is a little more difficult. So what do you need to do to ensure that you are making your website as accessible as possible?
Is Traditional Text Resizing a Thing of the Past?
When creating web pages, I always try to ensure that it’s as accessible as possible so that as many people visitng the site can use it. Many developers overlook the fact that text can be resized and the impact that this can have on a page, but now the majority of browsers are introducing page zoom, is this something that we no longer need to worry about?
Successfully Present Your Web Designs to Clients
Should Photoshop be used for presenting web page designs to clients or has the art of design now evolved to such a level that it’s no longer effective to present a flat image to a client? Can HTML/CSS be used to streamline the design process?
Google Chrome Web Browser
Maybe they’ve kept this one really quiet or maybe I’m just the last to hear about it but the Google Chrome browser is here and many are tipping it to take a huge portion of Firefox, some even suggesting that it will be Bigger than Firefox by Christmas
Firefox 3 Released
Last night at 18:00 BST the highly anticipated Firefox 3 browser was released. If you haven’t downloaded it yet what are you waiting for?
Opera 9.5 Released
I’m amazed that Opera has had such little market share for so long but maybe with the release of Opera 9.5 things are about to change.
Get Ready For IE8
It’s nearly time to get ready for the release of IE8 but is your website up to the job and if not, what can you do about it?
Useful Web Development Links (21st May 2008)
Last week was a little slow for web related tools and news but hopefully this week’s set of links will more than make up for it.
- Google Doctype has been released which contains lots of useful reference for web developers
- Design Shack have been running a series of CSS3 introduction tutorials which may be of interest to anyone that’s interested in CSS3 but entering it from a beginner level.
- 10 Fundamental Tips To Improve Your SEO
- Pogo Browser is a new browser (but don’t worry, it appears that it’ll use the Mozilla rendering engine).
- Drupal 6 Review
- JavaScript Text Resizer
- 20 Useful Tools to Make Web Development More Efficient
- 30 Exceptional CSS Techniques and Examples
- 40 Professional Icon Sets For Free Download
Please feel free to add any other tools, news or interesting developments below.