IE8 standards uproar and some clever Microsoft marketing

Microsoft recently announced a horrible idea for standards-mode switching in IE8, only to backtrack and become heroes throughout the web development community! Everyone’s celebrating and I’m happy … but why do I have this niggling doubt of dirty political paranoia?!…

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Optimalworks wins the Accessites.org award

The Optimalworks.net website is honoured to receive the Accessites.org Quality Universal Design award.

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innerHTML: the ultimate alternative solution

Using innerHTML for DOM manipulation does not come without problems. This article proposes a completely new solution that is simple, has the advantages of innerHTML, but uses safe W3C DOM methods. All in 50 lines of JavaScript too!

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Government website accessibility guidelines

The UK Government has issued an initial consultation document on delivering inclusive websites in order to meet European objectives for inclusive e-government. By December 2008, all .gov.uk websites must adhere to W3C guidelines level AA.

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Accessible websites and developer ignorance

It seems that a proportion of the web development community is rigidly stuck back in 1998. If only those developers would put the same amount of passion into supporting web standards and accessibility as they do complaining about it!

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Web accessibility BLINK tag legislation

The European Commission has introduced web accessibility legislation today that has far-reaching consequences for all web designers and browser manufacturers. The new rules will ban the use of any browser that does not support the blink tag.

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