August 2008

Accessibility quotes

  • August 27, 2008 at 2:44 pm
  • I’m trying to encourage colleagues to embrace web accessibility and standards. I’ve cited quotes from the W3C and the Web Standards Project, but I’ve been asked to strengthen my case with quotes from ‘disibility or digital divide organisations’. So below are some that I’ve found, posted here in case they’re of any use to others.
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Does the iPhone advert ban begin to shift the responsibility of web accessibility?

  • August 27, 2008 at 5:13 am
  • The claim by the Advertising  Standards Authority that an iPhone advert was misleading seems confused, and sends a worrying signal.
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Opera Web Standards Curriculum for the UK voluntary sector?

  • August 19, 2008 at 12:03 pm
  • I’m wondering if there’s any scope in voluntary sector bodies collaborating to deliver Opera’s Web Standards Curriculum (or a version of it) within the sector.
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Citizenship Foundation news feed Wordle

  • August 19, 2008 at 8:46 am
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Michael Grimes 4 President: find and win!

  • August 12, 2008 at 10:08 pm
  • I was bored. So there is now, somewhere on the web, an image containing the words ‘Michael Grimes 4 President’. The first person to send me a copy of the image will win a Mars Bar (I’m a generous soul).
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Redesign: typography

  • August 11, 2008 at 6:57 pm
  • Right, I’m struggling a bit with this. My redesign is coming on: I’ve done the grid and the CSS seems to be working ok (in FireFox and Webkit at any rate). But I’m having a little trouble getting the text to align to the grid. I’ve tried working it out for myself because I was [...]

Redesign grid

  • August 11, 2008 at 8:25 am
  • I get very confused by other people’s explanations of how to set online type to a baseline grid, so I tried from scratch.
    This post just shows the grid, I’ll get onto typography later.
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Website re-design: again

  • August 11, 2008 at 1:32 am
  • I’m having another go at redesigning this blog, this time based firmly on a modular em-based grid.
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