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Washington DC based Janmedia Provides Probono Assistance to SEDC

Washington DC - March 8, 2010: Janmedia Interactive, INC, a leading Washington DC Digital Agency accepted a Pro Bono support request from the Socio-Economic Development Center for Southeast Asians (SEDC). SEDC is a Providence-based nonprofit that provides social services to the Southeast Asian community.
Publication date: 2010-03-09 more

Seven HTML related working drafts published

On March 4, the W3C published no less than seven new or updated working draft documents related to HTML: HTML5 HTML: The Markup Language HTML5 differences from HTML4 HTML+RDFa HTML Microdata HTML Canvas 2D Context Additional Requirements for Bidi in HTML Read full postPosted in (X)HTML, HTML 5.
Publication date: 2010-03-08 more

Visual display of alternative text

The fact that web browsers have different ways of displaying alternative text when images are missing or disabled is something that I talked about in Safari, WebKit and alt text for missing images and Steve Faulkner expanded on in alt and title content display in popular browsers. In How should Web browsers render alternative text?, Vlad Alexander asks (and answers) a few questions on this topic.Read full postPosted in Accessibility, Browsers.
Publication date: 2010-03-05 more

Washington DC Digital Agency Janmedia Partners with Akon to Give a Facelift to HitLab.com

Washington DC - February 26, 2010: Janmedia Interactive, INC, a leading Washington DC new media agency has teamed up with another artist from the Entertainment Industry, rebranding Akon's HitLab.com
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

Accessibility issues on Vancouver Olympics websites

Being a pretty big fan of many winter sports I have spent most evenings of the past two weeks in front of the TV, watching the action from the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics. With excellent live TV coverage from the games I had no reason to visit either the Vancouver2010.com or the CTVOlympics.ca website to find more info about the games. But one person who has visited and taken a closer look at those sites is Joe Clark. What he found is that the Vancouver Olympics Web sites are inaccessible to disabled people.Read full postPosted in Accessibility, Web Standards.
Publication date: 2010-03-02 more

CSS efficiency tip: use a single stylesheet file for multiple media

The way most people link CSS intended for different media types, such as screen, print, or handheld, is to use multiple files. The files are then linked either through link elements with a media attribute or through @import statements with one or more media types specified. There is nothing wrong with splitting your CSS into multiple files and linking them this way (I currently do that here on this site), but there are two drawbacks: it leads to more HTTP requests from the browser to the server and the need to maintain multiple CSS files.Read full postPosted in CSS.
Publication date: 2010-02-22 more

Remember the Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG)

An increasing number of web developers are aware of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) (though they don
Publication date: 2010-02-19 more

How to respond to email messages that contain multiple questions

Email messages often contain a number of questions that the sender wants the recipient to answer. I find that many responses to such messages are much more difficult to understand than they should be. Not because of grammar or spelling errors, but because of how the responses are structured and formatted. I
Publication date: 2010-02-17 more

Janmedia Excited About 2010

Washington DC - January 30, 2009: Janmedia understands that the recent economic climate has been unsettling for businesses regardless of industry; however there couldnít be a more ideal time in which to differentiate yourself from your competition. Your target audience is more sensitive to making the right choice in a partner than ever and Janmedia can help propel you above the rest.
Publication date: 2010-02-17 more

Specify a text colour for img elements

When an image specified with an img element is missing from a web page, some browsers display the alt text instead. Why not all browsers do that is a separate topic which I talk a bit about in Safari, WebKit and alt text for missing images. I think most people will agree that it is a good thing for web browsers to display the contents of an image
Publication date: 2010-02-11 more

sIFR default CSS hides content from at least one screen reader

Just a heads-up to anyone using sIFR to render text: the default CSS that comes with sIFR hides the replaced text from the VoiceOver screen reader. I don
Publication date: 2010-02-08 more

Forgotten CSS selectors

Anyone who has been using CSS for any length of time has probably been frustrated by the lack of selector support in Internet Explorer 6. There are quite a lot of cases where a CSS 2.1 selector will let you target elements in all other relevant browsers, but where you, if you want it to work in IE 6, have to add a class or id attribute to the HTML. Well, the market share of IE 6 is now finally at a level where we as developers can say that a site
Publication date: 2010-02-05 more

Beware of

Every now and then I need to ask a client or another developer to save a copy of a web page and email it to me. Mostly it is because they are viewing a page that is behind a firewall and I need to see the markup. Something that happens a lot is that they send me HTML that is more or less mangled. This HTML mangling happens when you choose
Publication date: 2010-02-02 more

XHTML Media Types Working Group Note updated

The W3C Working Group Note XHTML Media Types - Second Edition contains updated guidelines for the use of different media types with XHTML documents
Publication date: 2010-01-30 more

Unobtrusive JavaScript is not necessarily accessible JavaScript

Plenty of JavaScript demos and tutorials that you come across on the Web note that they are implemented using unobtrusive JavaScript. While that is great and should always be encouraged, some people seem to believe that unobtrusive JavaScript equals accessible JavaScript. That is not always the case. Unobtrusive JavaScript is normally mentioned to emphasise that a script uses progressive enhancement to cater for people who use a browser without JavaScript support. But that does not mean that a script is accessible, since two key accessibility issues tend to be overlooked
Publication date: 2010-01-27 more