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HTML-based email seems to be a mess, with different email clients supporting a different set (and sub-set) of web technologies such as HTML and CSS.

Microsoft’s Outlook has a commanding share of desktop email clients. However, Microsoft announced that Outlook 2007 would use Word’s HTML rendering engine, rather than Internet Explorer’s which seems like a big step backward.

While some may prefer text-only email, others prefer to — or must — create HTML-based email.

The Email Standards Project is attempting to follow the example of the Web Standards Project, but for email clients, web- and desktop-based to try and make HTML-email creation less hit and miss.

Read the full post titled, “The Email Standards Project”

Accessibility on the web not only benefits people who are considered disabled, but a much wider, often aging, population.

Some people still claim that people with such needs don’t use the web (see further below). Watching people use the web using assitive technology may however, change perceptions.

Read the full post titled, “Web Accessibility: not just for disabled people”

My impression of day 2 at @media ajax, the ajax/javascript conference with some of the leading figures in this area.

Read the full post titled, “Day 2: @media ajax November 2007”

My impression of day 1 at @media ajax, the ajax/javascript conference with some of the leading figures in this area.

Read the full post titled, “Day 1: @media ajax November 2007”

Web pages often benefit from some text that may not be necessary from a visual design perspective, but offer additional context to say blind users using a screen reader. Some CSS techniques to achieve this include moving text off the screen in such a way that screen readers will still read them out. However, there is a concern that search engines may not like this technique as it could be abused for keyword stuffing and other such practices. What are the implications?

Read the full post titled, “Hiding Content on Web Pages for Accessibility”