Archive for December, 2008

Accessible Word, PDF, and Powerpoint Files

Accessibility/Section 508Published December 23, 2008 at 1:33 pm No Comments

When you create a new website or application, you probably have some ideas about how to make your pages accessible. If not, there are plenty of resources out there (a good starting point is webaim.org). If you develop a portal-type site that contains a lot of content in proprietary formats, such as Microsoft Word, or
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Dreamweaver copy, paste, redo, undo commands stop working

Web DesignPublished December 17, 2008 at 9:56 am 1 Comment

I keep running into this problem with Dreamweaver: Copy, paste, redo, and undo suddenly stop working. I then find myself on google for the next hour trying to solve the problem. Since I don’t want to keep wasting my time, I decided to post the solution here for my own sake. Adobe offers three different
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Target Web Site Accessibility Lawsuit Settlement

Accessibility/Section 508Published December 5, 2008 at 3:51 pm No Comments

This post comes somewhat late, but I didn’t have my blog up in August this year. But this is an important milestone for the legal aspect of Web Accessibility and will probably bring accessibility into the requirements process of more and more web sites, especially shopping sites. And in general, it should be on the
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Scrolling Table Cell

CSSPublished December 5, 2008 at 11:18 am No Comments

Recently, I got the following requirements: A data table contains one cell with a possibly long description. We want the height of that description to be no bigger than 80 pixels. This means, the cell needs to have a scrollbar. I did not want to simply set the height of the div to 80px with
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The Truth of Universal Web Design – John Allsopp Revisited

Accessibility/Section 508 Web DesignPublished December 2, 2008 at 2:30 pm No Comments

It is refreshing to see John Allsopp’s smart article about “The Dao of Web Design” re-surface on the December 2008 issue of “A List Apart” (as editor’s choice - hat off to the editor).  Constantly shifting and evolving web paradigms (then pull – now push; first Web 1.0 - soon Web 3.0) make us frown when Google returns results as old as
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SharePoint 2007 Accessible Rich Text Editor

Accessibility/Section 508 SharepointPublished December 1, 2008 at 2:03 pm No Comments

It is annoying that Microsoft published MOSS 2007 without updating their terrible WYSIWYG editor. The default rich-text editor produces nasty HTML, still including lots of font tags and other long-deprecated stuff.  Some developers have replaced this feature with the free version of aTelerik product, called  radEditor Lite, free MOSS edition. There seem to be some
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