A very common pattern on the web is to overlay text on a photo. It’s a lovely effect but one that requires care to get right. The difficulty arrises for the web developer wishing to produce an accessible site because they can never be sure what the colour of the photo will be.
I’m in London visiting friends for a couple of weeks and, predictably enough, took them to see West End production of Hamilton the Musical. Unfortunately one of my friend’s health has deteriorated over the last few years so queuing for entry to the theatre is a problem. We needed an access ticket. This doesn’t feel […]
Anyone who has attempted to navigate a web page using the keyboard will have experienced sites that remove the default a:focus style without adding in a replacement.
I found it difficult to use pure and semantic HTML5 when dealing with current versions of Internet Explorer. I really tried to adopt the commonly advocated view that it’s okay to require website visitors have JavaScript enabled but settled on a different option I could actually live with.
Josh and I were discussing the positioning of Skip to Content links on a website. In the past I’ve placed these in the first menu on the page, usually positioned under the header.