November 27, 2005
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0
W3C published a draft of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0), as well as HTML Techniques for WCAG 2.0. The current WCAG is WCAG 1.0, which published as W3C Recommendation May 1999.
It’s first time I noticed there’s HTML Techniques document for Accessibility guidelines. I wonder is most of the blog engine on the market has covered the accessibility consideration in their default blog template? That would be good to many disabled web users.
Some web accessibility validators (or should be testing tools, verifier, advisor):
- Accessibility Monitor : an online validator following WCAG
- A-Prompt Toolkit : a Windows application to test your web page accessibility
- NEWMAN Color-Blind : validate if you color design being considerable to color-blind
- WebXACT, they also have a desktop tool Bobby
- Lynx : An easy way to test your website’s accessibility, is to get text-only web browser lynx to surf to your site
November 23, 2005
UI Design: Rounded Corner
Basement.org has an good article regarding Why Do We Love Rounded Corners, which is partly based on paper Information Object.
It has well says over the linkage of things, or looks we prefer, to the leverage physical experience of how we interact and use object. So rounded corners are preferable because human are attracted to things tha t appear to be organic in nature. And comparing to plain old rectangle boxes, rounded corners indicate more information (and more related) to the object it contained.
I am only wandering is it because we feel circle is prettier than rectangle? Our body naturally being rounded, rounded corners in physical world are less harmful.… (e.g. a rounded table compare to table with right angles).