Quick start accessibility
I have been looking at web accessibility recently due to an up and
coming project with a global client who needs their site to be AAA
where possible.
It has made me realise how small things can make a huge difference. Here are some quickstart ways to enhance the accessibility of your sites.
1. Hidden accessibility navigation [...]
Archive for the ‘Web Development’ Category
7 Sep
Tutorial with examples for making web pages more accessible.
16 Jul
HTML 5 examples and tutorials
I thought I would post a few really helpful html 5 examples and test pages.
A good page to keep track of is http://www.w3.org/html/planet/
Drag and Drop (works in firefox 3.5)
http://decafbad.com/2009/07/drag-and-drop/api-demos.html
Test Elements
This is a layout which uses the new header, nav, aside and footer elements to build a page as well as a few other new HTML [...]
23 Jun
Example using jQuery with ASP.Net (SOAP) WebServices
I don’t know about you, but I’ve had enough of slow loading aspx pages because of the huge ScriptManager JavaScript files that are needed to be downloaded. I also don’t see why I should have to register web services through it to be able to use them in my client side code.
Once answer is to [...]
21 Jan
Test/debug a local website on windows mobile 5 emulator
I had to test an ASP.net web project I am am doing which is designed to be viewed on a windows mobile or pda. After looking all over the internet I couldn’t find much information on how to do this through one of the many emulators that are available and can be linked up with [...]
23 Dec
Your Second Home Launched
I have launched a new website this week (www.yoursecond-home.com), delved into some php for the first time in about 2 years! I was surprised at how much I could remember.
I was asked to come up with a corporate identity and implement it into a simple site giving information for people wanting to buy homes abroad [...]
12 Dec
jQuery Interface Animate function
Over the last week I have struggled with the frustrating override of the jQuery Animate function by the jQuery Interface Library. The frustration being that the Interface library is pretty awesome but this function requires a different set of variables and objects past to it than the original. This not only breaks any other plugins [...]
28 Nov
jQuery StarRating Asp.Net webcontrol
Here is the jQuery Star Rating Asp.Net web control. It comes in three sections: the vb.net webcontrol, the css and the javascript. Credit and thanks to Ritesh Agrawal and the guy from PHP Letter for the jQuery and css code. I have made small modifications to the jQuery code to grab the currently selected rating [...]
29 Oct
Has the day of bespoke sites gone?
These days it is so easy and cheap to have a web presence. With numerous services from sites like wordpress which not only give you blogging services but also the ability to manage specific pages, what more could the average punter need when you have all these options at your fingertips? Has the day of bespoke sites [...]
27 Oct
Viewstate, forget about it?
When you come to designing applications with controls that use callbacks instead of postbacks you will quickly run into the brick wall that Viewstate won’t be your friend.
Now on the surface, not being able to rely on the current viewstate is not so hard to deal with, everytime a control’s value is changed I would save [...]
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