Introduction to Accessibility in Dreamweaver MX
This is a practical tutorial in which we explore how to use the built-in functionality in Dreamweaver to make existing sites or new development more accessible, without needing to add hours onto development time.
Most of us have never experienced being unable to use a mouse, or having to rely on a screen reader to get information from web sites, and so it is easy to not have accessibility at the front of our minds when working on a site. By switching on the accessibility preferences in Dreamweaver, we have a reminder of the attributes that we can add to make using our site easier for all of our users - without degrading the experience for those using a regular browser who will probably never know that these attributes even exist on the site.
Bob Regan is Senior Product Manager of Accessibility at Macromedia, responsible for ensuring compliance with Accessibiliy and Disability legislation in Dreamweaver, Flash and all other Macromedia Products. DMXzone's Bruce Lawson caught up with him in London last night (Sept 4th 2003) and asked him about his job and the forthcoming MX 2004 family of products.
Clients can be irritating. Especially when they change their minds about things. In todays article we'll learn to work around this. What we're aiming for here is saving time. We're going to look at techniques to minimize redoing design work, by taking a close look at masks and how they can work for you. We'll also go through the production cycle of a design, and how to develop it so that any image that has been used can quickly be replaced by another - without having to redo all the effects you've used on it.
DMXzone staffer, Martha "Sherlock" Graham found that, on the eve of the denial-of-service attack from MSblast-infected PCs across the world, Microsoft have shut down WindowUpdate.com (as of 15.30 GMT it was unavailable), and moved it to a Linux server.
It was rumoured to be the weekend of the Big Hack - even the U.S. Department of Homeland Security were warning about it. Although Microsoft.com, Chicago Webs and various other sites went down, it doesn't seem like we've seen the biggie yet. Today's news of a new email virus and a new attack bot only fuel speculation and worry.