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An Accessibility Frontier: Cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties

Web accessibility and the notion of universal design are laudable and for many disabled people have resulted in significant benefits. Well made sites allow people with a range of physical disabilities to access goods and services and participate in activities with an ease that was denied them in the pre-web world.

However, the needs of the largest disability group in our community, those with cognitive disabilities and learning difficulties, appear to have slipped through the cracks to a large extent when it comes to website accessibility.

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Viewing Patterns for Homepages

Not entirely a tutorial, but can be used as one.

Once users visit your homepage, where do they look first, and what drives them to look there? Not surprisingly, our left-to-right reading behavior in Western culture seems to greatly influence these responses. In Eyetrack III, we observed that the upper left corner of a page seems to be the preferred starting point for most online news users. However, the location of key elements -- such as headlines and the flag -- also seem to be powerful forces in determining reader attention.

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An Introduction to Multilingual Web Addresses

Currently Web addresses are typically expressed using Uniform Resource Identifiers or URIs. The URI syntax defined in RFC 3986 STD 66 (Uniform Resource Identifier (URI): Generic Syntax) essentially restricts Web addresses to a small number of characters: basically, just upper and lower case letters of the English alphabet, european numerals and a small number of symbols.

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Guidelines for an uncomplicated Web

Offering up some friendly advice to those who would like to see a less complicated Web.

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Accessibility From The Ground Up

Accessibility From The Ground Up
A Primer for the Web designer

Covers: CSS and tables marked up designs, simplicity, color, JavaScript, Flash, and has great pointers in general content areas.

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Percentage or Pixel?

All of us that dedicated ourselves to designing web pages, at one time or another we have been asking ourselves this question, should I use percentages or pixels to define the width of the tables in my site? What is better?

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Wireframing

This chapter introduces you to the concept of making wireframes of web site projects, and how to create them. The rest of this chapter looks at creating UI specs and prototypes. These three topics are important when designing a professional web site to allow you to keep the client and the rest of your team clear about how the design is progressing, and to be able to communicate requested changes.

This sample is taken from Chapter 3: "Wireframes" of the Glasshaus title "Usable Shopping Carts"

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Sending Plain Text Email in Unicode

This mini-tutorial is for people with the following needs:

• You need to send email containing multilingual, Unicoded text;
• The email is to be plain text rather than HTML;
• You use the CDONTS NewMail Object.

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Thin Table borders in Netscape

I couldn't get thin table borders to work correctly in netscape, until I stumbled upon this method which allows you to create nice looking tables in Netscape and Internet Explorer Read More

SVG:The Art Is In The Code By Eddie Traversa

This SVG tutorial serves as an introduction to the basic concepts of SVG.  It follows a hands on approach that demostrates how to create basic shapes, gradients, text and filter effects.  This is part 1 of a 3 part series by Eddie Traversa www.dhtmlnirvana.com Read More