One of our clients complained that our print stylesheet doesn’t work as the backgrounds don’t get printed.
This is a setting of the browser, not a CSS issue. In MSIE, it is part of the Advanced Options of the Internet Settings:

In Firefox, it is an option in the File – Page Setup dialogue:

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Microsoft seem to feel some of the pressure web standard and accessibility awareness created, and published a new version of MSN.com that does not use any tables for layout. While there are still a lot of validation errors, and it gives the impression that CSS-P needs to be blander than table layouts (they ditched a lot of images and screen furniture), it is nice to see Microsoft at least try to follow a standard they haven’t established.

Generally the safest way to ensure real humans enter data are so called captchas (Completely Automated Public Turing-Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart – distorted pictures with words in them you are asked to read and type in). Now, these are not only an accessibility issue (how would a blind user type them in?), but clever spammers found a way around them, using free porn and gullible people.

A new article describes how to create dynamic galleries with DOM and CSS. Read the devarticles.com version, or if you dislike ads, the local copy.

With all my accessibility studies and teachings at work, I thought it’ll be a good idea to do something for charity, and what better than to sponsor a puppy to become a guide dog?

I filled out the forms and here he is:

Varley, my very own soon to be guide dog. I hope when he is out of school, he’ll be very helpful to somebody who needs him.