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That Standards Guy is the online persona of Karl Dawson, a web developer living and working in Ipswich, England.

I'm a member of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers and the Web Standards Group and team member at Accessites—an awards site to recognise accessible and usable websites.

I specialise as a front-end developer and worry about the minutae of semantic (X)HTML and CSS, accessibility, microformats, typographic rhythm and grid design. I also care about the user experience and remind myself constantly of visitor site goals when working with clients and their aims.

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Site Accessibility - .net magazine

August 7th, 2006

.Net magazine, based in the UK has recently had a redesign (and realign?) with many leading lights of our industry on the advisory panel or writing articles. Two full-price issues later and I’m close to getting round to taking out a subscription now that they are saying the right things. However, and you knew a “but” was coming soon, the latest blog entry on PAS 78 has me biting my tongue hard to not post directly there…

Can we please not give link love to design agencies and consultancies (Indigo New Media and User Vision) talking about accessibility do’s when their own websites and latest portfolio entries are tables-based designs? And I really enjoyed scrolling your website for two miles too, Richard Quick. Thanks for that. Two or three for the Snakeoil Salesman category?

This entry was posted on Monday, August 7th, 2006 at 8:08 pm and is filed under Accessibility.

2 Responses to “Site Accessibility - .net magazine”

  1. Oh DO post directly - Karl, otherwise companies will continue to be quoted as accessibility advocates when they don’t have the faintest idea of what it’s like to get around a website using assistive technology.

    I also took a look at the quoted companies recent portfolio examples and several are missing even the basic ALT atts - thus falling flat on their face at hurdle 1.1 of the WAI’s checklist. Tsk, tsk ;-)

    ColaSays:

    August 8th, 2006 at 8:08 am

  2. … and what about the continually animated advert on the PAS78 blog page - I really love those, NOT. At least the second one stopped after a bit! Andrew

    AndrewSays:

    August 8th, 2006 at 1:35 pm