http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/index.php babblings! Thu, 28 Aug 2008 03:32:41 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 jeff.lowder@accessibility1st.com.au jeff.lowder@accessibility1st.com.au en M and M Pest Management is a Pest control company that contracted us to redevelop their tired old site, we've just launched the new site www.mandmpest.com.au. They supply pest control services all over Sydney, I believe that the new look and user–focused content will further support their customer first repuatation that ... http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/index.php?p=66 We’ve been doing a lot of work in collaboration with some top digital agencies recently, here’s just some of what we’ve been up to. Information Architecture Nestlé Baking HSBC Commercial Banking Standards Based Development Act Now! Panasonic – coming soon Freedom Accessibility Audits Melbourne 2006 Auction site Libraries Victoria Victorian Sport and Recreation Victorian Electorial Commision Department of Innovation, Industry and Regional Development eGovernment ... http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/index.php?p=65 City of Sydney has finally gone live, there still needs to be a few tweeks, but overall I think everything is looking good. I was sub–contracted to do the ‘webstandards based’ templates based on Massive’s designs, it took just 1 month to do all the CSS, HTML and browser tweaking then ... http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/index.php?p=59 In an incredible reversal of statements Bill Gates has announced that IE7 will be out the middle of this year. Whether this is going to be simply a security fix or a more dramatic improvement in the CSS rendering engine no one knows. I will speculate now that our wishes ... http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/index.php?p=64 Well we’ve finally been able to get around to redeveloping Max Coaching's web site. Because we developed the site using web standards, Max Coaching has found that they get high rankings in Search Engines, and quicker load times for customers, this all leads to clients finding them and being happy with ... http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/index.php?p=57 Microsoft portal site MSN has just updated their underlying codebase to use CSS for their layout & styling — not a <font> tag anywhere, I can’t believe it. For a long time I have been bagging Microsoft for their lack of standards based support within IE, but it seems that ... http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/index.php?p=55 ​​​​Sam Palmisano, the CEO of IBM, challenged his entire company to migrate to Linux for their desktop systems by the end of this year. Turns out things aren't going so well. IBM is running into this one tiny little problem. You may have heard of it, it's called Internet Explorer. See, ... http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/index.php?p=54 Rounded corners, from a design perspective have been around for a while, and Lori from Zenful Creations posed a new and interesting design problem on the webstandards group list today, and the solution took a while to come... but here it is. I have now tested and adjusted it ... http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/index.php?p=53 In a recent article published by The Register it has been said that: “Companies and public bodies are still failing to take accessibility into account when designing their websites.... this lack of action on accessibility is creating an internet underclass.” It also goes on to say that companies are developing their sites ... http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/index.php?p=52 It seems that XMLHttpRequest has now come of age with the recent beta testing of Google Suggest and Drew McLellan has an article that's worth a read. It has also been included into the whatwg.org standards so it seems that for the new world of web apps it's going to ... http://www.accessibility1st.com.au/index.php?p=51