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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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Archive for December, 2005

How useful are accessibility evaluation tools?

Please update your bookmarks, on 1 September 2006 this article was updated and re-released via Accessites. This revised article is replicated on my blog for comments.

Best regards, Karl

Practice What You Offer

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 service delivery…

I just had to go visit the website and read more.

Oh. My. God. The site uses frames! ‘Nuff Said!

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