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Continuing my look at United States Presidential campaign websites, I took a look at Rudy Giuliani’s site. Like the other sites I’ve seen, better attention needs to be given to the use of alt tags. The main image on Giuliani’s site has no alt tag. This is the image that serves as the link to [...]

John McCain’s website is a challenge. There are some fundamental problems with it.
First off, there is no DOCTYPE. For those not aware, a DOCTYPE is the statement that tells a browser, Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc., what type of code the page is written in and how to present it. It is the first and [...]

This is the second campaign website I’m looking at to see how accessible it is. Barack Obama’s site, I’ll say, seems to be better than Senator Clinton’s. I think they’ve done a better job of providing information without relying on images. There’s some room for improvement, though, as a quick check shows a few alt [...]

New feature today. I’m looking at different campaign websites and noting some violations of accessibility guidelines. First off, due to the attention she’s getting is Senator Hillary Clinton’s page announcing her new campaign theme song. Go to the page and you are presented right off the bat with the music playing. There is no way [...]

NCAM announce the release of CCforFlash 2.0.1 today. New features include:

Synchronizes captions to sound objects, video objects, animated movie
clips, main timeline, and loaded swfs
Supports programmatic instantiation of component
Exposes full API and object properties
Recognizes path names for target objects
Recognizes multiple instances of the component in a movie
Allows Flash author to override global styles in external caption [...]

Jeffrey Zeldman does something pretty cool. He set Firefox’s options for a page’s background color to magenta and visited a few web pages. Oops. It looks like some web designers out there forgot to set their body tag’s background color in their stylesheet.
It’s just one little line of code (the example will set your [...]