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Swinburne University of Technology’s e-Therapy Unit co-directors Dr Britt Klein and Dr David Austin have developed “internet to deliver therapy”:

Through graphics, animation, audio and video, a patient is guided through an internet-based psychological treatment. He or she is given the option to choose a male or female online presenter, to access video materials by former […]

Web Standards 2008: Three Circles of Hell
Test-Driven Progressive Enhancement
7 Open Source Version Control Systems Reviewed
Anchor Buttons
Understanding Disabilities when Designing a Website
Quick Turnaround Usability Testing
A Minimal HTML Document
CleverCSS
A Qualitative Study of Five Authors of Five Blogs on Training and Development
Google Phone Unveiled, Can it Beat the iPhone?
What Goes into a Well-Done Critique
Dynamic URLs vs. static […]

Form context highlighting using CSS only
Welcome to the World Wide Web Foundation
Look at it Another Way
Zebra Striping: More Data for the Case
jQuery and JavaScript Coding: Examples and Best Practices
10 Smart Javascript Techniques to Improve Your UI
Antenna House Formatter V5.0
A Free JavaScript Speed Boost for Everyone!
The Joy of Sketch : explorations in hand-crafted visuals
Cognition Announces “World’s […]

I was recently sent this question:

I have used <ol type=”a”> in my markup. The W3C validator tells me that this is invalid. How can I change the “type” of an ordered list’s the list without using this attribute?

Answer:

The type attribute associated with the <ul> , <ol> and <li> has been deprecated as it is […]

History of the browser user-agent string
Microsoft CSS Vendor Extensions
40 Creative Design Layouts: Getting Out Of The Box
The Death of Internet Explorer 6: Still Prematurely Called
The story behind Google Chrome
On Google Chrome
JavaScript in Chrome
Shiny chromey new things
Workin’ it on all browsers
Easy Vector Graphics with the Raphael JavaScript Library
To Refresh, or Not to Refresh
The Helen Project
The shelf […]

Roger Hudson has written a detailed article called Accessible Forms using WCAG 2.0. The article provides practical advice about the preparation of accessible HTML forms.
More importantly, it compares the WCAG 1.0 accessibility requirements relating to forms with those contained in WCAG 2.0.
There are also a selection of movies where Andrew Downie demonstrate screen readers in […]

Oz-IA2008 will be held on 20/21 September. Oz-IA is the premier Australian event on Information Architecture for the web. Two incredible days of presentations, panels, and networking with information architects from across Australia and beyond.
I’ll be running a half-day workshop as part of the conference:
Styling WCAG 2.0 accessible forms with CSS
Forms are possibly the hardest […]

Steve Faulkner, from the Paciello Group, has been doing some Accessibility testing of the new Google browser, Chrome. While it is important to remember that the browser is still in beta, and it has a lot of great features, it is not looking good on the accessibility front at this point:
This release of Google Chrome […]

Google Chrome, Google’s Browser Project
A fresh take on the browser
Google on Google Chrome - comic book
How Captcha was foiled: Are you a man or a mouse?
When To Use Magazine-Style Themes For Blogs?
Introducing Ubiquity
Regex Patterns for Single Line CSS
Tagging is Not Just for Content
Two cheers for the Target/NFB accessibility settlement
Well Designed E-Commerce Websites
Microsoft breaks IE8 interoperability […]