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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.

That Standards Guy is proudly powered by WordPress using my own “StrictlyTSG v3.0” theme. Site Policies.

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Presentations

Presentations to the Refresh Cambridge group.

My CSS Framework: November 2006

Primarily my CSS framework helps me get round a Content Management System (CMS) limitation of only being able to link to one style sheet but it also utilises Yahoo’s YUI Grids CSS for rapid prototyping. This has had many internal refinements since - including a print style sheet and detailed treatment of typography all of which pre-dates the release of Blueprint CSS.

The Trouble with Accesskey: February 2007

A case of too much accessibility when using the accesskey attribute.