… so new, in fact, that it’s not even out yet! I just wanted to take this opportunuity to mention that Simon Collison’s finished his hard work on a beginner’s CSS book for Apress. It’s available for pre-order on Amazon now. I will be doing a full review as soon as it’s out and I get a few minutes to put together something worthwhile (in other words, I’ll actually read it rather than skim-read and regurgitate the press release!). I’m hoping that the book fits quite snugly between my own book (a complete beginner’s book for HTML and CSS, web standards all the way) and some of the more advanced CSS books that show you all the nice fancy stuff that you can get creative with (for example, CSS Mastery or Bullet Proof Web Design). Whatever level it’s pitched at, I’m sure Simon has done a great job with it!
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Outside reading
- Migrating from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0
- Roger Hudson provides a through transition guide from WCAG 1 to WCAG 2
- Beyond CAPTCHA: No bots allowed
- James Edwards (aka Brothercake) provides a useful run-down of the problems posed by using CAPTCHAs
- Jeremy Keith does an excellent write-up of the Accessibility 2.0 conference (which I was unable to attend)
- Sharepoint and Web Accessibility
- Bruce Lawson describes the disparity between Sharepoint/MOSS developed web sites and the level of accessiblity that the tool offers to users (summary - it really is not good!)
- How does a screen reader user really hear your web site?
- Interesting post on Beast Blog about how a screen reader user - a real one! Not one of those fake web developer tester types! - uses the tool to read a web page. A few surprises were waiting in store for author Mike Cherim.
- Web Accessibility Toolbar now available in simplified Chinese
- The Web Accessibility Tools Consortium (WAT-C) release a simplified Chinese version of the Web Accessibility Toolbar.
- Web 2.0 vs Web Accessibility
- 1-day seminar in London, 25th April, brings together experts in the field to discuss/demonstrate the accessibility issues faced by web 2.0.
- Leading accessibility technologists form new alliance to fix problems
- The Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA), comprising (among others) Adobe, HP, Microsoft, Novell, and from the assistive tech industry Dolphin, GW Micro and HiSoftware forms to work together "to create and harmonize standards for accessible techn
- Fieldsets, legends and screen readers
- An excellent run-down of how fieldsets and legends can improve accessibility and how the various screen readers cope with this useful markup.
- CAPTCHAs explained - WacBlog
- Another really good post on the RNIB\'s Web Access Centre blog explaining captchas, why they\'re bad for accessibility and what the alternatives may be.
- Making WCAG easier to read
- Derek Featherstone has created some fancy style sheets to make reading WCAG documents a little easier on the eye.
- Top Tips for the title attribute
- Ann McMeekin provides a set of simple tips regarding when - or rather when not to - use the title attribute. \'Cos sometimes you can try *too much* to be helpful
- California court tilts towards mandating web accessibility
- Outlaw.com reports (on behalf of The Register) on the Target California class action lawsuit, digging a little deeper into what Target have been doing of late to address matters.
- Screen Readers and display:none
- Juicy Studio, aka Gez Lemon, investigate some quirks whereby screen readers announce content that they should not be. Perhaps this could be used for good rather than evil?
- Google Developer Podcast: The status of accessibility on the Web
- An interview with Google research scientist TV Rahman (and Hubbell, his seeing-eye dog!). Lots of talk about CAPTCHAs and accessibility, but no sign of a transcript for this interview as yet.
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