Blog Posts: Accessibility
Five Fundamental Website Design Principles We Think About at Evo»
There are lots of approaches to website design. Other designers may legitimately find much to disagree with in this short list, or have items to add (please!). But these are…
Why Bad Websites Happen to Good Companies, Part 8: Creating Barriers to Downloading Free Information»
Giving away stuff on your website is a really smart thing to do. It’s an opportunity to spread your ideas or information about your products and services, sometimes in exchange…
Oops! There Goes Another Accessibility Mistake»
I’m not an accessibility “expert,” though I care about the issue and do my best to create accessible websites. However, I read a lot of web design/development information, and sometimes…
Part 6, Why Bad Websites Happen to Good Companies: Too Much Stuff on the Home Page»
You’ve seen those homepages with 3 product lead-ins and 2 giveaways and NEW!!! special pricing and the latest news and a billboard about what the company stands for and the…
Paying Attention to Website Accessibility»
Web accessibility has to do with making websites accessible and usable for everyone, regardless of abilities or disabilities. Most of the techniques for making websites accessible are easy to do…
Part 5, Why Bad Websites Happen to Good Companies: Having a “Splash” Page»
Splash pages represent a fundamental misunderstanding of the online medium. Often, they come from a print perspective (“books should have a cover”), or sometimes from a broadcast perspective (“a show…
Why Online Language Translation Applications Are a Bad Idea»
One of the blogs I follow recently recommended an online translation application. For some reason, I was not able to submit a comment on the post, so I’ll air my…
10 jQuery Plugins We Really, Really Like»
It wasn’t that long ago that javascript was considered a “kiddie” programming language, used mostly to inflict annoying browser behavior on website visitors. Then, AJAX came along, using javascript to…