The main consensus is to avoid them. Why you say? Well because it’s not necessary. If you really want to open a link in another tab or window, you can do it yourself:
In Firefox, hover over the link you want to access, right-click your mouse to get a menu and click on “Open Link in [...]
Websites dedicated to online awareness and magazines alike are pushing more and more the importance of Web Standards. Sites like A List Apart has been an advocate for Web Standards and Web Accessibility for years. Wordpress, Joomla and other content management systems have embraced the principles of accessibility. Forums like Accessifyforum have also seen increased [...]
Lists can be tricky, but as long as you keep a consistent structure and the correct sequence, lists are a piece of cake.
Here are the basics to remember:
Make your menus into unordered lists,
Place the list inside a div,
Have an H2 header with menu title (hide it if not need to be visible),
The ul has no [...]
www.checkmycolours.com is a website for you to easily check if the colours on your website are accessible.
This tool takes all of the references to colour from your web page including your CSS and nicely compares the background colours to the foreground colours. The report that gets tabulated shows very bluntly what instance is acceptable and [...]
The W3C has extensive information on how to properly evaluation a sites accessibility. Here are the underlining steps to ensure that your evaluation is full-proof:
For a preliminary review, select a page that is representative of the whole site or that most people will see. Try to choose a page that has tabular data, images and [...]
So I recently re-did one of my old websites. My client wanted to had some images so I took the opportunity to give her an accessible site. I had done this site a few years ago. I wasn’t aware back then of web standards and web accessibility. I must confess of using tables for layout. [...]
What are web standards?
Simply put, they are a set of guidelines for web development and web designing. It represents the good practices of the profession. When I started creating websites I had no idea their were rules, but now that I know they exist and I know why I need to use them I cannot [...]
