Christian Heilmann

Do screenreaders digest our Javascript Links?

September 16th, 2005

Over at access matters James Edwards, Mike Stenhouse, Derek Featherstone and Ben Easton finally took on the task to test various JavaScript event handlers with different assistive technology. The results, albeit not displaying correctly in my Firefox, are very interesting indeed: Navigating Links with JavaScript

Talk about the Web Fight Club

September 15th, 2005

It is pretty easy to preach web standards as a contractor or a freelancer with 10 page web sites as projects. It is also pretty easy to keep our blogs clean and advertise best practise web design and information architecture with them. It is pretty darn impossible to get the same ideas implemented in huge […]

Welcome Web Accessibility Tool Consortium

September 15th, 2005

Developers of free accessibility testing tools have joined forces in the Web Accessibility Tool Consortium. Being a user of a lot of these tools, I welcome this as it means that instead of working against each other we can have a nice, integrated approach and brain-picking from a pool of good people. The consortium includes […]

Business cases for RSS?

September 14th, 2005

My company is currently asking me once again to create an HTML newsletter. And once again, the content is not quite finished. Now, I do so not want to create an HTML newsletter, because: email is flooded as it is I have yet to encounter an HTML newsletter that is not bloated or works in […]

10 reasons why our clients don’t care about accessibility and remote commenting

September 13th, 2005

This morning Digital Web finally released the article I have been promising people at @media in July this year: 10 reasons why clients don’t care about accessibility. The article describes reasonable facts that prevent us from reaching our goal to sell and maintain accessible web sites. I collected these from client interaction in the last […]

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Don't stop thinking, AI Slop vs. OSS Security, rolling your own S3 Despite AI you still need to think, Bitter lessons from building AI products,  AI Slop vs. OSS security and pointer pointer…
200: Building for the web, what's left after rm -rf & 🌊🐴 vs AI What remains after you do a rm -rf? Why do LLMs know about a seahorse emoji? What image formats should you use? How private is your car?
Word is Doomed, Flawed LLM benchmarks, hard sorting and CSS mistakes Spot LLM benchmark flaws, learn why sorting is hard, how to run Doom in Word and how to say "no" like a manager.
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!
197: Dunning-Kruger steroids, state of cloud security, puppies>beer

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