I was recently trying to buy a train ticket using a Web platform which shall remain nameless for obvious reasons. I have been using the site for years to buy train tickets in advance, and while it …| TechnoLlama
In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript| The History of the Web
Making dynamic web content accessible is a huge challenge. WAI-ARIA is the best available solution today. It’s supported in all major browsers and enables almost any dynamic content to be made accessible — that’s great. Accessibility is really important. But man oh man, understanding WAI-ARIA is not easy for developers, who aren’t always born as […]| Access Garage
DotSpots is launching today. A dot is a “distributed object of thought”, which is like a mini blog post containing rich media, which can be connected to any paragraph in the news. Dots can be authored on the dotspots.com website or via the Firefox extension. They can also developed and polished by teams of collaborators. […]| Access Garage
My colleague Matt Mastracci from DotSpots has just released support for the HTML 5 <video>tag across browsers. Legacy browsers are also supported. Please see Matt’s post HTML 5 <video> support for older browsers. Kudos both to Matt and to our employer DotSpots for supporting web standards.| Access Garage
The mission? Build a rich text editor widget using contenteditable. Mark Pilgrim described this contenteditable use case as “alive and well on the web” with the warning that it is still “evolving”. Nevertheless, because of various problems we had using an <iframe> our group decided to switch from using designMode to contenteditable. Note: this article […]| Access Garage
It’s time to take a moment to thank and congratulate Frank Hecker, winner of the 2009 Catalyst Award, for his work to improve the lives of people with disabilities. The Catalyst award page de…| Access Garage
by Dominic Furniss Practitioner summary Social media is changing the way people communicate and connect regardless of whether we choose to embrace it. Practitioners and companies can use this to their advantage to increase their visibility and connect to professional … Continue reading →| Human Factors and Ergonomics in Practice
What kind of a sites do we want linking to us? Authority sites. That’s my main criteria when I’m looking for link opportunities.| Backlink Boss
Web3 is self-referential in the extreme. The value of the tokens is expected to grow as everything is to become more liquid and interconnected: tokens from one DAO will be valuable in another; more activities will be fractionalized; more institutions will turn into DAOs; more objects into NFTs...| The Crypto Syllabus