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“Accessibility” Archive

The Greatest Secret in Web Design

Alright I cheated, this isn’t really a secret for professionals. Or an open secret. Or whatever. It’s that web design is a process. Good web design is an ongoing endeavour; and thus, excellent web design an expensive undertaking …

¶ December 1, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, Design.

How to Uncover Pseudo-Standardistas

There is a growing and annoying trend that not quite supports healthy attempts for more accessible, faster, more maintainable, and best practice web development: Pseudo-Standardistas. There are several ways to unmask pseudos …

¶ November 20, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility.

Code Responsibly

Exactly: Code responsibly. And contribute if you like to.

¶ October 9, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, User Experience.

Accessibility Heuristics

Just having updated my German article on accessibility heuristics it looks reasonable to share available though “rough” guidelines here as well, albeit in a short form that basically just grabs and cites respective documentation by W3C and IBM. They come without comments, however …

¶ October 7, 2008, filed under Accessibility.

Web Standards at Google

As an exception, I’m writing as a Googler here: At Google, we care about web standards. Officially, that is no real news, but taking into account all ongoing criticism for the code of our pages, it probably is …

¶ October 2, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility.

The Most Important Thing Is to Get the HTML Right

… meaning really right when it comes to modern, high quality web development. Why? Because it’s the markup that provides meaning and is important for accessibility, that is key to maintainability since otherwise bottleneck, that can have a significant impact on performance …

¶ September 26, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, User Experience.

When Guidelines Should Be Descriptive or Prescriptive

Every time I’m setting up guidelines and standards, mostly within companies, one of the questions I need to ask and answer myself is whether or not they, or which parts of them, should be descriptive or prescriptive. For coding guidelines this would mean the difference between …

¶ September 13, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, Design.

Google Chrome

I love it: 99.9 % of the readers of this site already know about Google Chrome, the browser my employer just released. Still, I am not talking as an employee here, and still, there might be something in this post that you didn’t know …

¶ September 4, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, User Experience.

Less Is Still More

How much time and money gets spent on making things worse is something I find absolutely fascinating. Allow me to elaborate, starting with HTML newsletters: People (let) spend hours on writing supposed content, create and decorate mockups, work around ridiculous email client implementations, …

¶ May 21, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, Design, User Experience.

Standardistas, Help Fix Wikipedia

When it comes to professional web design and web development, not only the English Wikipedia is in questionable condition. And considering the value Wikipedia has as a contact point for rubbernecks and novices, it should be in our best interest to take care of …

¶ April 13, 2008, filed under Web Development, Accessibility, Usability, Design.

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