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Fangs extension moving to Mozilla hosting 12 Jan 2010 | 10:54 am
I discovered that my first post about the Fangs Screen reader emulator add-on was posted on November 22 in 2004. That is more than five years ago. At that time Mozilla hosting for add-ons was pretty r...
Pitfalls of Web Accessibility Evaluation Tools 24 Apr 2009 | 05:38 am
Summary: Automated web accessibility evaluation tools are hard to trust, understand and only provides feedback on a small amount of factors that influence accessibility. Also, a unified web evaluation...
Patterns for WAI-ARIA landmark roles in existing HTML 3 Apr 2009 | 08:21 am
This is a short summary of some methods to add WAI-ARIA landmark roles to existing web pages, e.g. an existing template package for a content management system. Currently many developers seem to be r...
Contributing WAI-ARIA landmark roles to open source CMS themes 29 Mar 2009 | 04:56 am
Sometime new technology suffers from a chicken and egg problem. For example, if no websites start using WAI-ARIA there will be few incentives for manufacturers of assistive technology or browsers to i...
Opera Web Standards Curriculum 9 Jul 2008 | 06:36 am
From the introduction: “Learning Web Standards just got easier. Opera’s new Web Standards Curriculum is a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design prin...
Fangs for Firefox 3 available 2 Jul 2008 | 02:20 am
Sorry for the delay. Here is an updated version (1.0.4) of Fangs for Firefox 3. Your previous version may not update automatically in which case you need to uninstall it, restart Firefox, and then dow...
Finnish quality criteria for public websites 30 May 2008 | 03:56 am
The Finnish government has published their quality criteria for public websites in english. This makes it possible to compare your own national guidelines to thos of other countries. Quoting from the ...
Swedish National Guidelines for Public Sector Websites 29 Apr 2008 | 06:57 am
The Swedish National Guidelines for Public Sector Websites takes an integrated approach to usability, accessibility and standardization. The purpose of the Guidelines is to support the procurement, de...
RDFa – Implications for Accessibility 5 Sep 2007 | 09:26 am
Here are my initial thoughts on how I believe RDFa will benefit web accessibility. If you are new to RDFa I recommend reading the Wikipedia entry on RDFa and the W3C RDFa primer as an introduction. A...
Mental Workload for Paged and Scrolled Documents 25 Jun 2007 | 09:12 am
In a recent doctoral thesis from the department of psychology at Gothenburg University, Sweden, Erik Wästlund provides some interesting findings on mental workload for consumption of information. Two ...
