Tips and Tutorials for Your Genealogy Web Site
Posted in Accessibility, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jun 19th, 2009
Smashing Magazine’s latest article 10 Ways To Make Your Site Accessible Using Web Standards Without argument, one of the most important things to consider when creating a website is that it be accessible to everyone who wants to view it. Does your website play nice with screen readers? Can a user override your style sheet [...]
Posted in Accessibility on Jan 16th, 2009
Accessify A verb: to make accessible I’ve written about Accessify.com in the past and when I paid the site a visit today, I discovered it had had a face lift. Accessify provides a collection of accessibility tools and goodies just for you which include: Skip Navigation Builder – Skip navigation links are very useful for [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Dec 16th, 2007
I was busy updating my website Genealogy Web Creations when I came across a resource I just had to share. Access by Design: A Guide to Universal Usability for Web Designers is a book by Sarah Horton. This book is a primer – a simple and concise introduction to the fundamentals and basic principles about [...]
Posted in Accessibility, General Articles, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Dec 14th, 2007
Today I received an e-mail touting a new book and website hosting service that I consider not only spam but very poor advice for budding website designers and genealogists. My friend Tina Clarke wrote about it on her blog Bad Practices, Spam and Irate Web Designers. After reading parts of their material and the methods [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Expression Web Tutorials on Oct 10th, 2007
Many websites use forms – contact forms, search box forms, and guestbook forms. The list goes on. Internet shoppers use forms to select, pay and arrange for the delivery of their purchases. Forms are not the easiest thing to navigate for people with disabilities. We can make it easier by adding some elements to our [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Website Design Tips & Tutorials on Jul 28th, 2007
Check the Color Contrast of Your Website “AccessColor tests the color contrast and color brightness between the foreground and background of all elements in the DOM to make sure that the contrast is high enough for people with visual impairments.” Read more To conform with Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, foreground and background color combinations [...]
