The pope is dead. Long live the pope! Just another blog about web development. If you’re interested in web stuff you may find this blog useful.
It’s been a busy week preparing the latest 24dash.com release, we have done a major rebrand and improved a load of usability stuff as well as relaying out all the templates to make the document outline more accessible.
There’s still a load of stuff to improve and we have been gathering ideas to for new features for the future, so well done team!
Check it out here: 24dash.com
Posted on 22/05/2008 at 04:10 PM
I am totally lovin Adobe Air, I have been playing around with Mootools, Air, and Actionscript to create a build monitor for the Cruise Control / PHPUnderControl server at work. Its going pretty well I will post it once its in a state that is useable…
I will finish my mini accessibility guide at some point too, got a little waylaid playing around with air…
Posted on 17/05/2008 at 01:47 PM
After talking my friend through some accessibility stuff the other day I thought I would blog a little about the stuff I do to help users access my webpage. Hopefully someone may find this little guide useful.
I am quite a believer in creating accessible sites, I think the process of making a site accessible helps you to create better websites as it makes you think about the way you are handling the data/content within your site. Also an advantage of creating accessible sites for disabled people means that your site should be easily accessible by mobile devices.
Now I am not saying that all my websites are 100% accessible, but I do try and provide as much help as I possibly can to people using them. A lot of the standards require checks on colours which I must admit I don't really think about too much as with a modern browser, screen reader or text browser I don't see the point, long gone are the days where we displayed content within images! Now with css the user can disable the stylesheet and all the colours are gone, with browsers like opera they can even apply their own stylesheets.
I think its a good idea to always keep an open mind about accessibility issues as its a very subjective matter, as developers we can only try our best.
Read on for my mini guide
Posted on 11/05/2008 at 12:02 AM
I am a web developer/ project manager from Birmingham Uk, currently I am working for inflight productions as a technical project manager. Hopefully I will be posting here as regularly as possible on my experiences with various technologies that I am using and maybe the odd random thing..
