The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I’d Never Write
by Aaron Cannon
I have said on numerous occasions that there is no simple checklist that, when followed, will give you an accessible site without fail. There are simply too many variables. But, what do you do when you want to create accessible pages and you have dozens or even hundreds of developers who (like most of their peers) have little to no experience with accessibility? What do you do when it just simply isn’t practical to have someone review all of your pages? In short, how do you insure that a very large organization creates pages that can be accessed by the largest audience possible without drastically increasing your budget? This is one of the questions we have been (and continue to) struggle with.
Bloody good stuff. Read the full article and download the check list.
New elements in HTML 5
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 5 introduces new elements to HTML for the first time since the last millennium. New structural elements include aside, figure, and section.
New inline elements include time, meter, and progress. New embedding elements include video and audio. New interactive elements include details, datagrid, and command.
HTML 5 is part of the future of the Web. Its new elements enable clearer, simpler markup that makes pages more obvious. Div and span still have their places, but those places are much more restricted than they used to be. Many pages will no longer need to use them.
What happened to the design?
I’m running naked through the street, stripped down as nature intended. The idea behind this is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. visit the Annual CSS Naked Day website for more nakedness.
Semantics in HTML
Microformatique is an unofficial blog covering all things microformats, and “data at the edges”. Latest specifications, presentations, events, publications and more. It’s put together by John Allsop , who has written three artlicles well worth a read.
- Part I - Traditional HTML Semantics
- Part II - Standardizing Vocabularies
- Part III - Directions in HTML Semantics
Quite an eye opener and as the tag goes, from little things, big things grow.