The W3 people provide a handy checklist for web accessibility … although many web development businesses do not consider standards and accessibility important, Sibagraphics strives to employ accessibility methods and means so that everyone can enjoy and benefit from client site information.
Archive for 2004
UTF-8 encoding
Saturday, November 20th, 2004
Great article on character encoding which has a fair explanation of the uses of utf and other encoding for internationalisation. For php users, there are ways round the limitations of php’s 256 character set.
Font sizing
Wednesday, November 17th, 2004
As well as through the font checking utilities on this site, the perennial problem of font sizing methods acceptable for all browsers is discussed by Owen Briggs at his site. He supplies some handy cross-browser comparison screen shots.
Owen leans towards using percentages due to their compatability. I’ve recently started setting html {font-size:100%} then body {font-size:90%} and em units throughout the rest of the style sheet. Wondering whether it may be best to go back to using percentages only as it doesn’t seem to make much difference as long as the base font is set at 100%.
Web Standards Group
Wednesday, November 17th, 2004
Since joining the Web Standards Group mail list, I’ve been updating and learning new CSS skills which will be very handy.
By far the most useful forum I’ve ever found on styling tricks, it’s extremely active, full of specific resources.
