The aim of the conference is to break down the barriers between disabled users and the social web as much as giving ethical hackers real world issues to solve. We talked about improving the accessibility of the web for a long time – let’s not wait, let’s make it happen.
The first Scripting Enabled conference took [...]
By a roundabout route I happened on a post describing an Internet Explorer 6 bug (of course) in applying the :first-letter pseudo-element in CSS.
In IE6 there must be a blank between the selector and the declaration block.
/* does not work */
p:first-letter{property: value}
/* works */
p:first-letter {property: value}
Additionally, there appears to be a problem with IE6 (and [...]
Today, Joe Clark is saying “Captioning Sucks!” with a new website.
Why does it suck?
There’s not enough of it.
Your complaints are ignored (if you can even manage to file a complaint).
Captions are hard to read, mostly because of lousy fonts.
Deaf people settle for less than 100% captioning.
Broadcasters use the wrong kind of captioning (like scrollup or [...]