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The Web today is very different to what it was in 1994, when the World Wide Web Consortium was established. Roger Hudson’s article - The Evolving Web - looks back at the early history of the Web and uses Pace Layering theory to consider some recent developments and the role of the W3C in the […]

A hands-on workshop with user experience expert, Donna Maurer, and CSS expert, Russ Weakley.
Over two full days you will build detailed websites layouts from the ground up - starting with page layout, navigation and form design; and ending with clean markup and elegant styling using XHTML/CSS.
Day 1: Planning and designing the user experience […]

Roger Hudson and I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Judith who has cerebral palsy. In the video below, Judith talks about her passion - Second Life. This video was used in a presentation at OZeWAI on Web 2.0 and accessibility.

Yesterday, a federal district court judge in California issued two landmark decisions in a nationwide class action against the Target Corporation.
First, the court certified the case as a class action on behalf of blind Internet users throughout the country under the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA).
Second, the court held that Web sites such as […]

A couple of years ago Roger Hudson and I put together some data tables that we asked people to test. The tables used different accessibility features and we were keen to see which ones people found the most effective.
The results from these tests helped us prepare the article - Accessible Data Tables, which concluded with:
“At […]

Some months ago Smash Magazine selected 50 prominent designers and design companies, contacted them and asked to answer five design-related questions, sharing their knowledge and experience with fellows developers. 35 designers have responded then. For some reason, I ended up in this list again.
For each of 5 questions Smash Magazine received 5 precise answers. […]

There have been a few comments recently about the lack of an accessibility expert position on the FullCodePress teams. Have we been ignoring accessibility?
The answer is no, we wanted to surprise the teams…
The FullCodePress judging panel will comprise of two accessibility judges. Gian Sampson-Wild will be assessing the sites with the other judges at […]

Roger Hudson and I are back from Reno after running a series of Accessibility and CSS courses at the University of Nevada.
A huge thank you to George, Cathy and JJ from the Research & Educational Planning Center for inviting us over and showing us around Reno during the week.
Feedback from participants included:
This was the most […]

FullCodePress is very pleased to be able to announce Google as the premier sponsor for the first FullCodePress event in August.
We’re absolutely delighted to have them on board, and know that Google’s support will help make FullCodePress as great as we’ve envisaged.
And as always, the real winner will be the organisation which gets a […]

Roger Hudson and I are off to Reno for a week to run a series of Accessibility and CSS courses at the University of Nevada. It looks like we’ll be there just in time for the Reno Rodeo.