Author Archives: Richard

Why WCAG 2.0 Encourages Use of Images to Replace Text

By Richard | Published: May 28, 2010
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 At level AA of WCAG 2.0 it has become much easier than WCAG 1.0 to justify the use of images instead of text (at level AAA they are prohibited though).  The following is quoted from the WCAG 2.0 Quick Reference : Images of Text: 1.4.5 If the technologies being used can achieve [...]
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Hosting Uptime Guarantees – Are They Worth the Paper They Aren’t Printed on?

By Richard | Published: May 11, 2010
Hosting uptime 99.9% – sounds good? Certainly in theory a 99.9% uptime guarantee means you should expect no more than about 9 hours a year downtime (or about three quarters of an hour in a month). Unfortunately the picture is more complicated. Firstly it’s clear that no-one can offer a cast-iron guarantee that their service [...]
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Guerilla Web Accessibility

By Richard | Published: January 8, 2010
There is a vast amount of information and advice available about web accessibility, and it can be overwhelming so this is my take on the essentials that you need to know. This is only an introduction and not meant to be comprehensive. What is Web Accessibility In a nutshell it is a means of making websites [...]
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