Joe Dolson Accessible Web Design
Joe Dolson Accessible Web Design Recent Blog Posts
New Accessibility Review at Practical eCommerce
on Oct 1, 2009 in Accessibility Reviews a11y ecommerce The second in my monthly column of Practical eCommerce accessibility reviews is available today! This review follows a different pattern than the previous, setting up a persona-based walkthrough of the reviewed site. Read my review of of Pets C...
Accessibility Review at Practical eCommerce
on Sep 7, 2009 in Accessibility Reviews a11y Launching today, I’m beginning a new series at Practical eCommerce. This is a series of practical accessibility reviews — web sites can submit themselves to be reviewed, and I’ll take some time to review the site and wri...
How NOT to use Post meta fields in WordPress Themes
on Aug 25, 2009 in Web Development WordPress best practices custom fields post object A little while ago, while working on a site built by another developer, I came across this rather interesting example of how to use custom fields badly in a WordPress theme (abbreviated for, well, brevity): (The original also did this for meta k...
Making compromises for accessibility
on Jun 24, 2009 in Accessibility compromise contrast design rnid The United Kingdom-based Royal National Institute for Deaf People (RNID) recently produced a nice mini-site entitled “10 Things You Should Know About Web Accessibility.” For the most part, it’s excellent — a friend...
Installment No. 4 at Practical eCommerce: Robust Websites
on May 22, 2009 in Accessibility accessibility guidelines practical ecommerce wcag It’s now available: Part 4 of the New Accessibility Guidelines series at Practical eCommerce. Part IV: Robustness. Wouldn’t have thought I had that much to say on the subject of being robust, but there you have it. Enjoy! Copyright 2004&#...
Understanding WCAG 2 part III: Understandability
on Apr 21, 2009 in Accessibility Another new article at Practical eCommerce: New Accessibility Guidelines Part III: Understandability. It’s exactly what it says on the cover: a discussion of the “Understandable” guideline from the four principles laid out in WCAG...