Christian Heilmann

European Member of Parliament sees not much improvement in accessibility

October 31st, 2005

Just got this as part of the e-government bulletin. Just another example as to how web accessibility has bigger issues than non-encoded ampersands. European Accessibility Shortcomings ‘Shameful’, Says MEP Richard Howitt MEP has said it is “shameful” that EU institutions have still not themselves widely embraced global web accessibility guidelines, despite urging their adoption on […]

How superfluous commenting can bite you

October 29th, 2005

i just had a fun bug to kill: A client complained that their site is not working. The code is theirs, all we did was update some flash movies. What didn’t work, was a popup window showing the flash movie. Now, the code was Dreamweaver generated and the out-of-the-box functions have their version as comments […]

Ask me things on the World Usability Day webcast

October 25th, 2005

Following the 10 Reasons why clients don’t care about accessibility article on Digital Web I was asked to participate in the World Usability Day webcast about web accessibility. So if you have a question to ask about the matter at hand – how to sell accessibility in the large business world – please feel free […]

Neat little colourblindness simulator for OSX

October 24th, 2005

Just got an URL from a friend that is too good to be kept just in my private stash: Sim Daltonism is a real-time colourblindness simulation app for Mac OsX. You can select what type of colourblindness you’ll like to simulate and a small window shows the area around the mousepointer with this filter enabled. […]

Flavour of the month: Generic CSS frameworks for all!

October 21st, 2005

It is amazing how the same idea seems to grip multiple developers at the same time. While the heydays of yet another image replacement technique seems to be over, flexible multicolumn CSS frameworks are the new sliced bread. Thierry of TJK Design shows his One clean HTML markup, many layouts, Mike Stenhouse offers a CSS […]

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30 years of JS, Browser AI, how attackers use GenAI, whistling code Learn how to use AI in your browser and not on the cloud, why AI makes different mistakes than humans and go and whistle up some code!
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