Accessibility
One challenge of a web designer is informing clients of best practices and explain why sometimes what they want to do isn’t the best course of action. One of these best practices concerns audio on the web, or more specifically auto playing audio. Even after attempting to persuade them it is a bad idea they usually still want to go through with it. The only reason they want it is because they think it’s cool, not because it improves a website.
Spam email is the evitable consequence of owning an email address, but as a necessary requirement to using the Internet these days your email is distributed far and wide. Although we can do little to control how another website uses our email address once we have provided it we can control how we utilise our email on our own websites.
Many websites utilise their email address in one of three ways:
All the above allow spammers to send you email either by collecting your email address to add to a database or spam you directly using your own contact form. There are different solutions to the first two examples above such as displaying your email in a non standard format e.g. john[at]smith[.com] or using JavaScript to display the email, both of which most automated bots cannot interpret.
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Accessibility is becoming a more important part of a web developer’s job. Yet accessibility is notoriously a hard thing to get right and it’s only getting harder.
If you’ve ever read the WCAG specification you would know that even for some of the most technically minded people the specifications are a difficult read. It’s not just the WCAG specification that suffers this way but the XHTML/HTML specifications read the same. Luckily for us there are online tools that mean we don’t have to read through hundreds of pages to know what we need to do to get everything right.
This isn’t true in the case of accessibility, unlike coding standards the accessibility guidelines cover both design and mark-up and online tools are only able to check mark-up. The tools do their best to advise on the areas that apply to design, or at least they did…
Well the event that I have been looking forward to for the past two months has ended, and overall the experience has been a good one. As I’ve posted previously I will try to answer some of the questions most newbie’s have about conferences as well as going through my own experiences in as concise a manner as I can:
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