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Some time ago, Jack Pickard published a very interesting piece in which he questioned whether too much emphasis was being placed on sites failing 1 or 2 WAI checkpoints.
Having had this article drawn to my attention only recently, I felt he had some very good points to make and that, overall, it is exactly this [...]
I’ve been thinking a lot about semantic markup lately and why it’s important.
In fact, I recently wrote an article entitled Semantics — Why Bother? on this very subject for Accessites. That started me thinking about XHTML and schemas in general and why it can sometimes be hard to get the concept of a semantic information [...]
A couple of days ago, I was just putting the finishing touches to a proposed design for a new client when I ran a final keyboard navigation check on it in my copy of Opera 9. To my complete suprise (and horror), the A and Q keys that are normally used to cycle forward and [...]
In the final article of this short series on accessites.org, I’ve tried to provide a quick summary of some of the relatively small changes that can be made to increase web accessibility for dyslexics. I’m not convinced that it’s an exhaustive list, though. So I’d be very interested in hearing about any other issues that [...]