Ian Lloyd, he of many hats has been rather busy lately and today I hope he’s putting his feet up and enjoying the day with a chilled beverage of choice. A big round of applause and congratulations for his just-released SitePoint book entitled “Build Your Own Website the Right Way Using HTML and CSS“.
It’s a […]
No article this week from myself but head over to Mike Cherim’s Beast Blog for a great article on the proper use of the alt attribute instead.
The US National Federation of the Blind (NFB) brought legal action against the US retailing giant Target Corporation due to the inaccessibility of their website on 7 February 2006 after trying to negotiate a solution in May 2005.
From the 9-page complaint (PDF 76Kb):
“Target.com contains a variety of access barriers that prevent free and full use […]
Every web page must have a title element in the head section. In this, the fifth article in my series “From the Top” we start to describe a web document via tags inside the head element.
Both the start and end tags of the head element are actually optional, user agents will automatically produce these if not present in the code. However, if you are coding with Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) you will not pass validation due to an error.
Karl Dawson is in full-time employment for UK local government and specialises in web standards and accessibility issues.
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