As someone viewing websites on the web, ad-blockers filter out adverts for “enhancements”, and a bunch of flashing, ugly advertisements. Not only this, but ad-blockers can help protect you from potentially sneaky and malicious code.
This is why one of the most popular downloads for Firefox is an ad-blocking extension.
However, have you thought about the reverse? [...]
Tag: accessibility
Photo by Wardofsky
In a press release Thursday (Dec 11, 2008), the W3C has promoted the new WCAG 2.0 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines into the current recommendation.
The new WCAG 2.0 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (current W3C Recommendation) builds and expands on the previous WCAG 1.0 Accessibility Guidelines released several years ago.
The WCAG 1.0 and WCAG 2.0 [...]
Typewriter photo by sooperkuh
Keyboard shortcuts are vital for navigating and performing various actions quickly, and are very helpful for designers when working on projects. Firefox has a keyboard shortcut for just about everything.
Unfortunately, finding and remembering them all can be difficult. Also, shortcuts differ slightly between Windows, Macs and Linux versions of Firefox.
Firefox Keyboard and [...]
Nov
17
2008
Don’t Remove Visual Cues For Links
Tech Soapbox just published an article on 10 Things to Factor Into Your HTML, outlining some important things to consider when coding a website. While I agree with the majority of the points made in the article, number 7 irks me a bit:
7. Use Outline:0
Another small one but useful for FireFox. The CSS element ‘outline’ [...]
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