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Roger Johansson is a web professional specialising in web standards, accessibility, and usability.
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Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider
About a year and a half ago I mentioned Nikita the Spider: a bulk validation and link checking tool as a useful quality assurance tool. Well, Nikita...
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Authentic Jobs API and Affiliates program
If you've been looking for a new job or looking to hire a skilled web professional you may have come across Authentic Jobs. You may also have noticed...
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What does Acid3 mean to you and me?
So, last week two browser vendors proudly announced that their rendering engines now achieve a 100/100 score on the Acid3 Browser Test: Opera (Opera and the Acid3...
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Designing Web Navigation (Book review)
What? An entire book just about designing navigation on the Web? Yes, that's... -
DOMAssistant bundle for TextMate
Like many other Mac users I do most of my coding in TextMate. It has tons of really nice features, one of which is its extensibility – if...
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First impressions of Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1
So Microsoft released the first beta of Internet Explorer 8 to the public the other day. Press releases and documents on the IE 8 site contain plenty of...
Standards Schmandards
A pragmatic approach to web standards and accessibility
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Swedish National Guidelines for Public Sector Websites
The Swedish National Guidelines for Public Sector Websites takes an integrated approach to usability, accessibility and standardization. The purpose of the Guidelines is to support the procurement, development, and...
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RDFa - Implications for Accessibility
RDFa is a set of extensions to HTML and XHTML from W3C. With RDFa it is possible to use custom vocabularies to include machine readable data in web documents. Here...
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Mental Workload for Paged and Scrolled Documents
In a recent doctoral thesis from the department of psychology at Gothenburg University, Sweden, Erik Wästlund provides some interesting findings on mental workload for consumption of information. Two of the...
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Bringing Accessibility into the Development Process
Web accessibility is, in my experience, often considered late in the development process. Typically, accessibility evaluation is conducted by outside experts after the application is delivered and content is produced....
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Evaluation of WYSIWYG editors (2007)
A year ago I tested accessibility features in some of the more popular WYSIWYG editors commonly found in content management systems (see Evaluation of WYSIWYG editors).... -
Search Accessibility Guidelines for Web Sites
I have created a Google co-op custom search engine with which you can search web accessibility guidelines. I have categorized each included page by country (for government guidelines) and...
