Category: Accessibility
Make it work!
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Responsive Web Design
Hot dang! Use fluid grids, flexible images, and CSS media queries to create elegant user experiences that fit any browser or device’s viewport. By Ethan Marcotte, co-author of Designing With Web Standards 3rd Edition. A…
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Opera loves my web font
And so do my iPhone and your iPad. All it took was a bit o’ the old Richard Fink syntax and a quick drive through the Font Squirrel @Font-Face Kit Generator (featuring Base 64 encoding…
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What the FAQ?
In Issue No. 303 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, we question the received wisdom about FAQs, and learn that, in the land of the colorblind, contrast is king. Contrast is King…
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Betting on the web
Must-read analysis at Daring Fireball anatomizes the “war” between Flash and web standards as a matter of business strategy for companies, like Apple and Google, that build best-of-breed experiences atop lowest-common-denominator platforms such as the…
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Wish I’d invented it
Arc90 Lab’s Readability is a simple and essential tool that “makes reading on the web more enjoyable by removing the clutter around what you’re reading.” Just choose your settings, install the bookmarklet in your browser’s…
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Flash, iPad, Standards
Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible, standards-based design. Not because Flash is bad, but because the increasing popularity of devices that don’t support Flash…
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Posthumous Hosting and Digital Culture
THE DEATHS of Leslie Harpold and Brad Graham, in addition to being tragic and horrible and sad, have highlighted the questionable long-term viability of blogs, personal sites, and web magazines as legitimate artistic and literary…
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A List Apart Arabic
Since 1998, A List Apart has sought to serve the international web design and development community with educational, insightful, and sometimes visionary articles on web standards, emerging ideas and technologies, and best practices in content,…
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ALA 288: Access & semantics
In Issue No. 288 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: How to integrate accessibility with front-end development instead of treating it as an afterthought—an item on a checklist. And why not every…
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HTML 5 is a mess. Now what?
Lawson explains just why HTML 5 is a mess. And I ponder what we should do about it. Moving forward, compatibly.
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Web fonts now (how we’re doing with that)
Fonts you can legally embed in your website using the CSS standard @font-face method. Why you’d want to. State of the art.
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A new answer to the IE6 question?
Andy Clarke proposes a novel approach to the problem of IE6.
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Your Guide to An Event Apart Boston
The complete schedule for An Event Apart Boston is now online for your reading and viewing pleasure.
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ALA 275: Duty Now For The Future
What better way to begin 2009 than by looking at the future of web design? In Issue No. 275 of A List Apart, for people who make websites, we study the promise and problems of…
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ALA 272: Accessible web video, better 404
What will it take to make web video accessible by default? And can a 404 page do more than just tell users something went wrong?