the 200ok weblog extras

large text, bold text and the color contrast ratio

cheshrkat — Thu, 24 May 2012 13:24:56 +0000

What's 'large text' in WCAG 2.0 parlance?

warming the house [Flickr]

200ok — Sat, 19 May 2012 06:00:23 PDT

200ok posted a photo:

Or present to friends in their new house.

vella nero [Flickr]

200ok — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:31:35 PDT

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Some of the best branding going in Sydney coffee shops, the Vella girls had a plan from the shopfit to the cups.

klink [Flickr]

200ok — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:31:26 PDT

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Handmade espresso, hand stamped cups.

antidote [Flickr]

200ok — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:31:20 PDT

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Science in the cup, science on the cup.

Antidote can make coffee with a fantastic array of methods; and their "science of coffee" approach is clear from the branding.

atelier de velo [Flickr]

200ok — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:31:14 PDT

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For those days you need a latte and a new road bike.

Seriously, it's a bike shop and espresso bar.

Google’s Accessibility Message Comes Through Loud and Clear | Emerging Technologies Librarian

cheshrkat — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 02:45:11 +0000

A writeup of how Google removed accessible options from Picasa; and some really good explanations of why a blind person would be using an image service in the first place. If you've ever wondered, or thought blind people don't use images, read this article.

how to remove CSS outlines in an accessible manner? | The Paciello Group Blog

cheshrkat — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:55:17 +0000

It'd be great if browsers detected "mouse mode" and "keyboard mode". That is, if the mouse is moving around vs. if the user is primarily using the keyboard.

Subway Maps for Colorblind People

cheshrkat — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 03:54:09 +0000

Solution: add texture and/or text.

Dealing with JavaScript's Automatic Semicolon Insertion | Armin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings

cheshrkat — Sun, 15 Apr 2012 12:43:29 +0000

Are Semicolons Necessary in Javascript? Despite popular belief the answer is “sometimes” and not “no”.

The HTML5 placeholder attribute is not a substitute for the label element | 456 Berea Street

cheshrkat — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 10:13:16 +0000

"Why not? Since any text in the placeholder attribute is only available to the user when the field is empty, once you’ve started entering something, the hint is gone."

PlaceDog.com - The Dog Lovers Placeholder Art

cheshrkat — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:33:59 +0000

For all your placeholder image needs!

Videos of Screen Readers with Basic HTML5 and ARIA Landmarks | Articles | Accessible Culture

cheshrkat — Tue, 14 Feb 2012 03:01:14 +0000

Interesting both in terms of ARIA support and the different voices of the screen readers.

CSS Ribbon Menu

cheshrkat — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:50:19 +0000

Nifty little CSS trick. Bit blingy, but interesting technique!

Delivering a Mozilla Firefox Extended Support Release | The Mozilla Blog

cheshrkat — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:41:09 +0000

Firefox Extended Support Release confirmed.

Apple Color Emoji | Typeface Review | Typographica

cheshrkat — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 07:19:52 +0000

"In an effort initiated by Google and with significant help from Apple and Microsoft, 722 Emoji symbols were included in the recently published Unicode 6.0 standard, putting Emoji on par with the Latin alphabet and other writing systems encoded in Unicode. This means messages and documents containing Emoji are fully searchable and indexable, and Unicode Emoji fonts are included with Windows Phone 7.5 and the Windows 8 Developer Preview"

www-archive@w3.org from January 2012: by thread

cheshrkat — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:41:21 +0000

Wherein Hixie says nobody follows W3C process.

One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages

cheshrkat — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 03:23:20 +0000

If you have worked with programmers for any length of time, this post is hilarious. Note nothing has happened since 2003 as the programmers are busy arguing about Scala.

dochub | Instant Documentation Search

cheshrkat — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:13:37 +0000

A really nice quick reference for CSS, HTML, JavaScript, jQuery, DOM and PHP.

3 truths of info visualization (and some whiskey, too) - Good Experience

cheshrkat — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:11:41 +0000

If your infographic doesn't convey information, it doesn't matter how pretty it is.