Entries tagged with “web”
24 April 2008 : Accessible Ajax: OmniTI
- 16 April 2008 : John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project
I want to hear from companies interested in a getting a brief accessibility audit of their web site for a good cause.
13 April 2008 : Character references: widening screen readers' eyes
Thoughts inspired by new test results showing how character references are handled by two modern screen readers.
9 April 2008 : Happy JavaScript Amputation Day!
I’ve been coerced into stripping off in aid of CSS Naked Day for another year, but I’ve also changed my behaviour.
18 February 2008 : JavaScript, abbr and Internet Explorer
A simple JavaScript solution for enabling
abbrsupport in Internet Explorer 5.5 and 6.
13 February 2008 : PHP + Twitter + Google Calendar + SMS
Using PHP with Twitter to add events to Google Calendar from your mobile phone.
6 February 2008 : Screen readers and abbreviations
A little information about how screen readers support and handle abbreviations.
20 November 2007 : Experiencing accessibility (and a video tour)
Getting our own experiences of accessibility inspires us to think and validates what we do with accessibility in mind.
8 November 2007 : Analogies for accessibility
I like analogies. Let’s have a look at some accessibility analogies.
31 October 2007 : del.icio.us proxy v1
A way to save bookmarks to your del.icio.us account without going to the del.icio.us website itself.
13 September 2007 : Geek networking in the South West of England
Glimmering creative horizons in the South West.
6 July 2007 : Grow Blooms
Grow Collective is inviting new members.
1 May 2007 : Quick Tip: hard refresh for Firefox on Mac
As a Mac newbie, I’m still learning shortcuts. Here’s one for hard refreshing Firefox.
27 April 2007 : abbr datetimes in microformats?
Are dates really abbreviations, expanding to machine-readable formats?
24 April 2007 : Removing alt tooltips in IE with JavaScript
A quick and dirty way to suppress IE
alttooltips using JavaScript.
11 April 2007 : vCard Tools in Mozilla Thunderbird
Sharing an extension for Thunderbird that provides really useful vCard features.
4 April 2007 : I have no style
I’ve stripped out my CSS files for 48 hours – it’s CSS Naked Day!
2 April 2007 : Good blog URL structure
I ramble on about what I think makes a good URL for blog entries.
21 March 2007 : Government responds to website accessibility e-petition
The UK Government dodges the point in its response to the website accessibility petition.
- 12 March 2007 : Growing up...
Spring is sprung, the grass is ris, I wonder where the dotjay is.
- 28 November 2006 : Petitioning for accessible governmental websites
Following the disappointing redesign of the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) website earlier in the year, an online petition has begun to collect signatures on the Prime Minister’s website in an attempt to highlight the issue of accessibility standards for UK Government websites.
22 November 2006 : Support for Aural Style Sheets and the CSS Speech Module
As the topic has cropped up a few times recently, I decided to collect my knowledge of aural CSS into a single resource to share with all you lovely people.
17 October 2006 : Indispensable Firefox Extension
Discovering the Session Saver extension for Firefox. Update: Firefox 2.0 has its own Session Restore feature!
- 6 October 2006 : Lab Update, October 2006
12 September 2006 : feed://Sage…
In which I identify a couple of common problems with the Sage feedreader extension for Firefox and ponder about the feed protocol.
- 12 September 2006 : Named HTML Entities in RSS
A problem with feeds not working in Sage alerted me to how HTML entities should be used in RSS feeds.
7 September 2006 : Wheelspin
Things have been busy for me lately, which is never a bad thing. However, I’m feeling unfulfilled by what I have achieved – or not achieved!
- 7 September 2006 : Quick Tip: Sage and the Feed Pseudo-Protocol
On problems with the Sage feedreader extension for Firefox not parsing some of my feeds due use of the “feed” pseudo-protocol.
- 24 August 2006 : Some Views on Contemporary Web Accessibility
Jeff seems to have caused quite a stir on his blog: Has accessibility been taken too far? It’s even brought me out of my unintentional hiatus.
- 19 May 2006 : Quick Tip: Disappearing Firefox Windows
I sometimes find that Firefox windows have decided to disappear – they somehow get stuck off-screen.
27 February 2006 : South West New Media
Zach and I have been working on a project that we hope will give a boost to the New Media scene in the South West of England. We have set up South West New Media as a network for people interested in the New Media industry in the area.
8 February 2006 : Webcredibles
I see that Webcrediboy took my nickname for him to heart!
2 February 2006 : Joe says...
Checking back through my recent textpattern logs, I find I’ve got some linkage from Joe Clark…
31 January 2006 : Cats in York
Our Cats in York website got quite a bit of interest this month.
- 17 January 2006 : FOUC Mac: something to note
A problem with a client’s site yesterday reminded me something… sometimes it’s not about what’s there, but what’s not there.
- 30 June 2005 : @media: Day two
My take on the second day/night at @media 2005. (Posting post-post: Oops! Not only are these posted nearly a month after the fact, but I cocked up posting this one.)
- 30 June 2005 : @media: Day one
After a coffee breakfast, we headed over to the conference venue to register and pick up our badges and near-day-glo bag.
- 29 June 2005 : Still Alive After @media
Yes, I'm still alive! After two weeks away from the office, I've arrived back in York to a load of work that needed (and still needs) dealing with. But it's been over two weeks since my last post, so I thought I'd better do something about it!
- 12 June 2005 : Making the most of @media
As I was heading down to London for @media 2005, I managed to make the most of it by fitting in some other meet-ups as well. I’ve had an utterly fantastic time! But now that @media has come to a close, I think it’s far from over. Let’s continue to make the most of it.
- 7 June 2005 : Off to @media
Well, I swore to myself that the next post I make would be more Web-related. I have a few posts half-way done, but this is the best I can muster right now. I’ve got a couple of meetings in London, then there’s @media (wooo!), possibly a stag night after that, and then a friend’s wedding to go to!
- 13 May 2005 : Grab Firefox Tabs for Offline Use
The ScrapBook extension for Firefox is a very useful little addition. Here’s a tip to help you save your open tabs for later use.
- 1 April 2005 : @media 2005 Flickr Group
OK, with a go-ahead from Patrick Griffiths, I've set up a Flickr group for delegates going to @media 2005 in June. What's the point? Well, for a laugh, but also so that people can find out what other delegates look like.
- 31 March 2005 : So, do I go to @media?
What with having to register today in order to get the early bird discount to @media 2005, I've been weighing up the options.
- 21 March 2005 : Add “Validate Entire Site” to Web Developer Extension
It can be useful to be able to validate an entire site using a tool such as a bookmarklet. Here’s a quick tip to add such a tool to the Web Developer Extension.
- 21 March 2005 : Blagging Bookmarklets
OK, having not had so much time recently to play with bookmarklets, I finally came to the conclusion that I wasn’t going to be able to finish this post as I first intended. As a precursor to developing some Firefox extensions, bookmarklets was never going to cut it anyway. I just wanted to brush up on some JavaScript – I’ve been spending more time working on developing my skills in accessible design than with my geeky programming roots. Anyway, I’m yet to do anything even remotely complicated with bookmarklets, but I thought I’d share what I’ve been up to recently.
- 4 March 2005 : Quick Guide to Bookmarklets
Recently, I’ve been playing around with writing Firefox extensions to add toolbar buttons that allow me to add a couple of simple tools I’d like to see on my toolbar. More on that soon, but in the process I’ve written a couple of bookmarklets to test some of my ideas. So my next couple of posts will be about bookmarklets. Here’s one to get started.
- 8 February 2005 : Designing Websites with Consideration for People with Cognitive Impairments and Learning Difficulties: Researching Some Solutions
Observations and resources I’ve found recently while researching how to design websites while considering people with cognitive impairments and learning difficulties.
- 8 December 2004 : Mozilla Mail Madness
I’d just like to make a confession about my complete ignorance with some of Mozilla Mail’s basic functionality.
- 24 November 2004 : Web Design Roles
As the Web evolves, it’s inevitable that the job of creating websites evolves too. As those out there in the industry will already know, the roles of the “Web Designer” can be diverse, especially on larger projects, making it more of an umbrella job description.
Anyway, I’ve decided to write about some of my thoughts about the job of a Web Designer. I also thought it might be interesting to ask people what role (or roles) they see themselves as playing in the world of Web Design.
- 15 November 2004 : Educating the People
Right, so this blog hasn’t been fed too well so far, but as I’ve said before, it isn’t on a high-fibre diet yet (i.e. it isn’t a regular thing).
- 28 October 2004 : out-law.com Website Compliance Seminar
A breakdown of my day in Manchester for the Website Compliance breakfast seminar organised by out-law.com.
