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In the second article of the series on accessites.org, I’ve returned to the issue of color contrast. As you might have gathered, it’s a hot topic of mine. Primarily because it’s an area that I believe WCAG has completely overlooked but also because I think it’s an issue that can be remedied relatively easily.
However, [...]
Following my comments in Does W3C Get Its Contrasts Wrong?, I decided to develop an alternative colour contrast analyser that took into account some of the points I’d raised.
As well as using the W3C thresholds, it uses the Hewlett Packard Color Difference threshold which, at 400, is 20% lower than the corresponding W3C figure. It [...]
I’ve long bemoaned the fact that Internet Explorer’s inability to correctly render content enclosed by the <q> tag severely limited its usefulness.
The issue lies with the fact that IE, incorrectly, renders any text inside <q>…</q> without the appropriate quotation marks. Firefox, in comparison, renders the text correctly enclosed with quotation marks. So if you manually [...]
Accessites.org was officially launched on Jan 6th 2006 with the express committment to prove that accessible, usable websites need not be boring by showcasing, and providing awards-recognition for, qualifying websites. As such, the Accessites team of assessors audit every submitted site against a set of 10 criteria points based upon accessibility, web standards [...]