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Support And Educate
Grant Broome has recently expressed some reservations over the suggestion that site developers abandon text-sizing widgits in favour of educating users instead. He’s worried that this approach is overly biased Personally, I don’t see this discussion as particularly biased. More of a natural maturing within the web accessibility development sector. For years, we’ve been aware [...]
Supporting Legacy Browsers, or Not
Following a conversation about the problems of supplying accessible content to old (legacy) browsers Mike Cherim came up with a PHP solution that would allow developers to serve very plain content to legacy browsers but rich content to everyone else. There’s nothing wrong with Mike’s code but I felt it could be tidied up and, [...]
An Alternative Colour Contrast Analyser
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. [...]
Reply-To Header Can Create Bounces
If your form email script creates a Reply-To header that doesn’t conform to the examples given in RFC 822, you may find that some of your mails are rejected by SMTP servers – even if your mail headers conform to RFC 2822.