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Podcast #65: Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe

Post author By Dennis
Post date August 15, 2008
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Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of topics including web accessibility news and events, a top 10 list, SXSW 2009, Nikita the Spider validator, and our friend Joe Dolson.

Download Web Axe Episode 65 (Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe)

Chatter

Dennis’ Trip to MI
TimeTracker – accessible time-tracking web application
Inaccessible AT&T web site

News

Top Ten Tips?

~~Ten Top accessibility developer tips from Epic (UK)~~

SXSW Panels 2009

Vote for SXSW panels
March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas
SXSW Interactive Festival
SXSW Panels about accessibility with Adobe

Nikita the Spider

Nikita the Spider
Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider (456 Berea St)
The most common validation error is neglecting to specify an alt attribute for img elements

Joe Dolson

color validation

CSS Validator color warnings are not errors

Post author By Dennis
Post date October 10, 2006
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A highly accessible web site uses web standards, which means XHTML and CSS. When using the W3C CSS validator to validate your CSS, many times the following warnings come up: “You have no color with your background-color” and “You have no background-color with your color”. In his blog posting, Roger Johansson explains why CSS Validator colour warnings are not errors. He states:

Those particular warnings are there for accessibility reasons and to remind you that you need to take care when specifying colours. The validator is trying to help you reduce the risk of your author stylesheets interfering with user stylesheets or system-wide colour settings.