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Do not use display:none to visually hide content intended for screen readers
In: web resources
18 Aug 2011When auditing websites for accessibility I occasionally find elements that are incorrectly hidden with display:none. The most common example is probably skip links intended to help keyboard and screen reader users. The irony is that those well-intended skip links are made useless by display:none. The pitfalls of using display:none have been widely known among accessibility-conscious [...]
Martin Odersky is CEO of Typesafe and creator of the open source Scala programming language. This post was co-authored by Chris Conrad, an engineering manager who is part of the Search, Network and Analytics team at LinkedIn. While interacting with social media and other consumer websites has become routine for many of us, ensuring a [...]
Firefox 6 Arrives With New Tools for Web Developers
In: web resources
17 Aug 2011Firefox 6 is now available. This update to the popular open source web browser comes just eight weeks after Firefox 5 was unveiled. The quick turnaround time and increasing version numbers are part of Mozilla’s new rapid release cycle. You can grab the latest version of Firefox from the Mozilla downloads site or head to [...]
How Young Is Too Young For Social Media? [COMIC]
In: web resources
13 Aug 2011Seeing as you can already add your fetus to Facebook, this is probably foregone conclusion. Mashable Comics are illustrated every week by Kiersten Essenpreis, a New York-based artist who draws and blogs at YouFail.com. More Mashable Comics: 1. The Earliest Social Network Ever Discovered 2. First-Generation GPS 3. There’s a Badge for That 4. It [...]
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This blog delivers stylish and dynamic news for designers and web-developers on all subjects of design, ranging from: CSS, Ajax, Javascript, web design, graphics, typography, advertising & much more. Our goal is to help you communicate effectively on the web with an engaging website or functional interface.
A Quick Guide to Using HTML5 Forms
In: web resources
17 Aug 2011Web forms are everywhere—contact forms, comment forms, sign up forms—these days you’d be hard pressed to find a website without a form. Sadly, HTML wasn’t originally developed with forms in mind and working with forms on the web is more difficult than it should be. Even something as basic as adding a date-picker to a [...]