That Standards Guy

I’m supposed to be on holiday but after browsing around the UK and Eire Casio website for a new G-Shock - the only brand I’ve never broke, I had to file a “Crusade” article. I made the mistake of visiting the accessibility page you see.
Needless to say the website is tables-based with inline styles and […]

Seeing as I work in local government I get access to the monthly SiteMorse report for what it’s worth. Imagine the pleasure I derived from the advert within from Amatica:
Amatica delivers some of the best performing and most accessible websites; you’ll find our specialist expertise invaluable in helping you improve the quality of your online […]

The hot topic within the standards community at the moment is the question of professionalism. I’ve brought this up time and again in conversation away from this blog - how can you call yourself a web professional if you have stopped learning anything new about what you do? Doesn’t every professional job require constant personal […]

I, along with many others in the web standards and accessibility designer community I’m sure, would love to hear why the new redesign of the Disney Store was not developed to W3C web standards and accessibility guidelines. They had such a wonderful site with Andy Clarke - valid and semantic XHTML markup, valid stylesheet and […]

European Parliament
Not only is the code a mess but you can’t even complete the contact form and tell the webmaster what an abortion the site is. You’d have thought that with the budget available the EU could have gotten a competent web designer? It’s not even clear what the home page is.