Archive for “July, 2005”

On this page the following entries were made in the “July, 2005” time-frame.

Accesskeys: useful or not?

Posted Jul 22nd, 2005 by Rich

John Foliot and Derek featherstone over at Wats.ca have long queried the usefullness of accesskeys, and have some very nice articles surporting their claims. More reasons why we don’t use accesskeys from December 2003 is just one of these.

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Tidybot

Posted Jul 11th, 2005 by Rich

W3C and WDG both offer validators for download. Every now and then I go and look at the instructions, and shudder with horror. Installation of these things is not easy, and I still don’t think I have the necessary knowledge to be able to do so successfully. Although not usable for many pages Tidy, an [...]

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Automated accessibility checkers

Posted Jul 8th, 2005 by Rich

There are an increasing number of tools that can carry out automated accessibility checks. But are they any good?
For quick checks, I have long used Cynthia Says as I find the resulting report informative and easy to understand. Having just re-evaluated Webxact (formerly Bobby) I see that the report has been extended to include other, [...]

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How accessible are embedded movies?

Posted Jul 1st, 2005 by Rich

Today I have been wrestling with embedding a movie into a web page. To try and ensure cross browser, and cross platform, usability I have had to use the <embed> inside an <object> On an XHTML 1.0 Strict page, this was a fairly major decision, and was only taken after careful consideration of all [...]

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