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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.

That Standards Guy is proudly powered by WordPress using my own “StrictlyTSG v3.0” theme. Site Policies.

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Links for 2007-08-17

OJR’s “five guide” to do-it-yourself website usability testing
Online Journalism Reviews offers steps and forms to test how readers will react to a new multimedia project or website design.
Video: Wikis in Plain English | Common Craft
We made this video because wiki web sites are easy to use, but hard to describe.
Video: RSS in Plain English | Common Craft
We made this video for our friends (and yours) that haven’t yet felt the power of our friend the RSS reader… if you know someone who would love RSS and hasn’t yet tried it, point them here for 3.5 minutes of RSS in Plain English.
Line short numerical and mathematical expressions with hard spaces
From The Elements of Typographic Style Applied to the Web. Use a non-breaking space to maintain association between number-word pairings like dimensions or chapter numbers. A regular expression in the CMS could effect this automatically.

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