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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In January 2008 Microsoft announced that if you wanted IE8 to operate in standards mode, a meta element must be inserted into the head of your document.

There was a huge uproar.

On 3rd March 2008, The Microsoft development team had a change of heart.

We’ve decided that IE8 will, by default, interpret web content in the most […]

On the 21st and 22nd of August the inaugural Local Government Web Network Conference was held in Sydney. The conference was organised by Diana Mounter and Reem Abdelaty from the Local Government and Shires Associations of New South Wales. There was definitely a great vibe at the event - and a great speaker list!
Here are […]

Ideal line length for content has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: Идеальная ширина строки

Styling the “hr” element has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: Кроссбраузерный разделитель hr

Inline elements and padding has now been translated into Russian by Nickolas Loiko. Translation: Inline элементы и padding

I was recently sent this question:
I noticed that some sites use the code below. What is this used for?
<meta name=”robots” content=”noodp” />
Answer:
First of all, this is a meta element. When used, it must be placed in the head of html documents. The meta element is used to provide meta information about a document. The meta […]