Mr. Zeldman writes about Readability, a bookmarklet that scrapes “what you’re actually trying to read” from a webpage, actually making it an enjoyable reading experience. You know, what a reading experience should be?? Jeffrey’s example, a Roger Ebert movie review, … Continue reading
Category Archives: accessibility
Introducing the New & Improved aarontgrogg.com
Since the day I launched this blog, I basically stopped thinking about my name-sake page, aarontgrogg.com. I converted it to a portal page, just linking out to the various locations you can find information about me on the web, and … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
A true hodge-podge today! From the legend Paul Irish, comes what some may consider a rather boring subject, but when I find I can squeak anything more from my user’s processors, I’m all-in! Check this for loop: for (var i … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
A rather good article comes from 24Ways about what makes a website successful. My fave comment is “Do you ask your clients why they have a website?” When I first started in this business, if anyone asked me about making … Continue reading
A Valid XHTML & CSS Lightbox (no JavaScript)
Ok, I know this is slightly old, and I know there have been a few posts about it, but seriously, how can this have not completely revolutionized the way EVERYBODY does lightbox-style overlays??? The perfect combination of POSH and fairly-basic … Continue reading
Today’s Readings
Once again, Apple has very simply made a product that is exactly as it should be: http://www.apple.com/iphone/iphone-3gs/accessibility.html#video A really, really good tutorial for HTML5, using a blog as a working example. Qué apropo, no? http://edward.oconnor.cx/2009/09/using-the-html5-sectioning-elements and it would seem that … Continue reading
Proof of just how dangerous a little early-morning coffee can be…
So, a seemingly-harmless line in the Google blog (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/) sent me merrily tangenting this morning… In the post titled “Design patterns for accessible, crawlable and indexable content” (http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2008/05/design-patterns-for-accessible.html), under the section header titled “CSS sprites and navigation links”, I read … Continue reading
HTML5 Form Elements: I cannot WAIT!
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/html-5-snapshot-2009 HTML 5 is ready to go! Well, sort of… Mostly, in some places, and some times with just a little help… But great reading, especially the part about <form> s (page 3, Opera-only for now), be sure to view … Continue reading
Notes from Jesse James Garrett Talk
Had the pleasure of attending a very intimate presentation and discussion with Jesse James Garret and Tamara Wayland of span class=”vcard”>Adaptive Path, so I thought I’d share a few notes I took… I like that part of AP’s mission statement … Continue reading
Tips from The CSS Anthology from SitePoint
In keeping with a long-held belief that you can learn something from anyone if you pay close-enough attention, I submit the following… I recently downloaded the sample chapters for SitePoint‘s CSS Anthology and, granted, it took me until page 78, … Continue reading