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Accessibility considerations: Hidden content and the accessibility tree
Overview Often when developing a web page, it can make sense to hide specific aspects of the page until a certain action occurs, which causes them to appear. A common…
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Accessibility considerations: Hidden content and the accessibility tree
Overview Often when developing a web page, it can make sense to hide specific aspects of the page until a certain action occurs, which causes them to appear. A common…
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Emotional Avatars – What and Why
Overview Tonight I had the opportunity to attend my 2nd Scottish Usability Professionals’ Association event in Edinburgh. It was a good night which saw two speakers from the University of…
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Accessibility considerations: Visual indicators for keyboard navigation
Summary Often when a site is designed, developers will set the outline for navigation elements to none, or zero. Effectively this means that when you try to navigate a website…
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Accessibility considerations: Logical document structures
Summary In the following article we will look at the impact of not maintaining a logically document structure and misusing Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to visually present it as correct. We…
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Considerations for accessible web development
The objective of this guide is to provide a basic list of considerations for building accessibility into your website. If followed, your site should provide a fairly good standard of…
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Gradual Engagement: Putting your users first
Gradually engaging your audience Ever since I first heard Luke Wroblewski talking about the concept of Gradual Engagement, I had an immediate “Oh, why didn’t I think of that?” moment….
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How to plan a journey on the ScotRail website, using Firebug.
I don’t usually post this sort of thing, but today I found a blocking bug that required some technically understanding of why it was occurring to overcome. Thankfully this wasn’t…
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2011 a year gone — 2012 a year of great promise.
Summary 2011 was a very busy year for me! Being a father with my first kid now nearly three, I’ve seen almost all of my free time disappear. You’ll probably…
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North West Tester Gathering: Musings from further north.
A gathering of testers! After my first day at the EuroSTAR 2011 conference, I had the pleasure of attending another great event – the North West Tester Gathering. This was…