I use a browser extension which always redirect wikipedia articles to their mobile equivalent (chrome, firefox). I find this much less cluttered and much more legible but it hides the settings scr...

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I don’t understand the recent hullaballoo over HTML 5. Its creation has been going on for years, and yet, suddenly it appears as though...

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My work webmail is provided by IMP. This bit is wildly wrong but is what I saw for a variety of Greasemonkey-related reasons. Like Gmail it provides keyboard shortcuts for just about everything you might want to do with an email. Unfortunately,

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turn Greasemonkey on and off tab out of Flash widgets (can tab into them, but then can’t get back out to the page again) Rather astonishingly, for the things I want to do frequently, that might be it. Nevertheless the Flash thing catches me out every single day.

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I know that the accessibility is somewhat of an old topic, but still: <span class="pseudolink">Full screen</span> ? I mean, thanks a friggin’ lot,

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I’ve had a couple of several-hundred-word posts hanging around on this topic for months now, but my frustration has finally got to the point where the technical stuff can wait – if you have a weblog which has centred text (even Hivelogic and Andy Budd fall foul of this) then make your contents elastic!

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After five consecutive beta test periods, a new version (v0.6.5) of the Markup Validator was released today. This maintenance version of the popular service introduces significant improvements in user-friendliness, thanks to improved documentation, usability, accessibility, as well as new features such as community-contributed error explanations and us...

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It’s probably about to make its merry way around the blogiverse anyway, but the Internet Explorer Accessibility Toolbar really is excellent. It features most of the tools available on the Mozilla Web Developer Toolbar and a few other ones (such as...

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We had to make a decision at work the other day as to whether a site we were making should be able to support people with 800×600 monitors. I said no, that no-one used this resolution any more, that 1024 was the norm, and we should go with that (most websites we do support both of course, but there were special considerations with this one). I was wrong. A quick look at the monito...

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Haven’t we all wanted to send lynx text instead of images so we can keep great design and great accessibility? Ben Hammersely loves linked folders in Eclipse, and many other people just adore Eclipse in ge...

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