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A conversation I had with a designer friend today where he asked me what I thought about Flash web sites got me thinking. Flash content might be "flash", but it is not necessarily useful, functional or usable. I'm not a great fan of Flash, but I can see it's value to the web. It provides...
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In creating animation, people (including clients) don't always consider the refresh rates of these assets. Not only can animated banners and the like be quite unattractive and annoying, they can also be quite unsafe for some users, particularly htose who are photosensitivity epileptic. In determining...
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I have just completed revisiting the checkout portion of the various e-Commerce sites I help manage. The reason for the revisit was to establish ways to improve the conversion rate of users that enter the checkout and complete the checkout to make the purchase. Part of the testing process has highlighted...
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This is going to be about a local issue, but no less relavant to my on-going pontification about web best practice. I hope that you'll enjoy it, even if you don't enjoy living here on The Isle of Man, as I do! The Isle of Man nestles in between Ireland and England, and is home to major finance...
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I've been interested in the semantic and accessible web for over five years, now, and the benefits I have developed on various web sites are clear to see. Semantic content is where web pages are 'marked-up' according to their structural significance, as opposed to their presentational significance...
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Was well impressed when I heard .NET 2.0 was going to be XHTML compliant. I should have realised it was too good to be true. Why do server controls get assigned a NAME attribute? XHTML Specification clearly states: in XHTML 1.0, the name attribute of these elements is formally deprecated, and will be...
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I haven't posted for a while and happened on an article I will post shortly, but in introducing it, I stumbled on an annoying issue in sites I continue to see. So, I will post this, and then link back to it in due course. It is also relevant as I have been asked by a site designer I am helping about...
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An article intrigued me today on C|NET: http://news.com.com/High-tech+photos+give+new+meaning+to+talking+pictures/2100-1041_3-5954367.html?tag=nefd.lede This article covers a technology being developed by Zanetti Studio, which allows speech, or other audio, ot be attached to a printout using a specially...
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This continues on from a previous entry at my post for 14th November 2005 . It discusses the site at http://www.zoomthegroom.co.uk . While ASP.NET 2.0 has appeared, and (finally) outputs XHTML which helps move the ASP.NET community to true accessibility, 1.1 is still around and will be for some time...
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While ASP.NET 2.0 has appeared, and (finally) outputs XHTML which helps move the ASP.NET community to true accessibility, 1.1 is still around and will be for some time yet. This article covers how I developed a site using standards for mark-up, style-sheets and accessibility and includes a couple of...
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BBC Accessibility Guidelines The BBC is an awesome site. It contains thousands of pages, relating not only to programme-related content, but also support services and resources made available as part of its public service charter. It encompasses a major International News site, comprehensive Sports coverage...
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Haven't been around recently, for which I apologise. However, an article on C|NET caught my eye this morning. While the keyboard and mouse are the ubiqutous devices to perform the input side of computing, many people can't use these due to their disability such as motor problems or sight problems. Web...
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Erwyn kindly pointed me to the article below: http://msdn.microsoft.com/asp.net/default.aspx?pull=/library/en-us/dnaspp/html/aspnetusstan.asp This article covers the use of ASP.NET 2.0 to generate accessible web sites. The article explains how the ASP.NET engine now emits XHTML code, has improved accessibility...
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Pre-populatiing your fields gives a further hint to the user Following on from my post Accessible Forms: Using the label control, I'll just add another useful guideline in improving form design. The Contact Us page on the ARMS site has a good example of how to develop an accessible form. This form...
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I have the need to create a clickable hierarchy of pages. ie. You start at the top, and see the "root" folders, which you click to see the contents. You then click those to open their contents, and so on. There are a number of options open to me, many of which I have tried and tested in various...