All posts by AlastairC

Accessible layouts

Screen shot at 800 wide and 1600 wide, both filling the screen width, effectively zooming in. The type of layout you choose for a web site is often considered a tricky decision, it seems you can never make a popular layout decision. However, there is a process to go through to make sure it's as accessible as possible.

Conditional comments in CSS

With the advent of Internet Explorer 7, there is now little choice but to create separate style sheets for different browsers, at least for a moderately complex visual design or layout. This post explores the need for change, and where this approach could go.

Laser eye surgery – an experience

Lasek Getting laser eye surgery is something I’ve been thinking of for a while, and finally decided to take the plunge last December. This post is for anyone in the same position I was in - considering it.

Subscription accessibility

At work a client received an email from someone asking why their site wasn't "speech enabled". This person said they were blind, and found the talking-browser product helpful, and why wasn't the site speech-enabled. Should it be?

Don’t use sp*nsors

Screen shot of the UKWA site highlighting certain links missing. Some of the things you have to deal with in terms of browser/system compatibility are just getting stranger and stranger. It's not just code, you have to be careful what words you use. Find out which famous anti-virus product invisibly removes web content.