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Friday July 27, 2007

Alarmingly, I discovered this evening that this website was acting a bit, well, funny in Internet Explorer 7. The links under Recent Posts and Recent Comments were drunkenly wobbling around and I couldn’t figure out why. My heart sank in an I’m going to waste an entire evening messing around with CSS kind of way. I also had an I’m going to spend wasted hours on developer forums moment, followed by a messing around with your website will only make things worse for you realisation.

Luckily, I managed to fix the problem after an hour’s frantic head scratching and the links have now sobered up in IE7, as well as there being no change in my beloved Firefox. The whole episode has succeeded in cranking up my hatred for all things Microsoft just a little bit more, adding to my recent huge disappointment with the BBC’s decision to launch their new iPlayer for the Internet-Explorer-and-Windows-XP-only market.

Funny really, because wasn’t the trend for putting a little i in front of everything started by Apple..?

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Web Woes

Sunday October 22, 2006

Being in charge of quite a large website brings many attendant horrors. One of them is the antics of the vast number of content editors who I have to keep an eye on. I’ve recently been compiling a list of my web woes. Here’s just a few.

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The Accessibility Backlash: An Update

Thursday July 27, 2006

Recently I wrote about my own accessibility backlash , where I was finding it increasingly hard to get the message across about the virtues of web standards and accessibility.

Well, I’m feeling more positive now. I really think the tide is turning, at least in my small corner of the world. I’ve put it down partly to persistence and what I’ve called ‘doing my Tony Blair’. At every meeting I’ve gone to, be it a huge boardroom experience on an intimate one-to-one, I’ve stressed “Accessibility. Accessibility. Accessibility.” For every “here he goes again, on about accessibility” I’m starting to get “yes it is important, and we wouldn’t want to go any other way.”

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The Accessibility Backlash

Friday June 16, 2006

I’m worried about the onset of the accessibility backlash. Many of us are talking about accessibility until we’re blue in the face, or stunned into submission after banging our heads against brick walls for so long.

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