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Thursday 24 Aug 2006

60 Hot To Touch Accessible Web Design Tips by Jim Byrne - published in paperback today

New book by Jim Byrne launched:
Photo: 60 Hot To Touch Accessible Web Design Tips.60 hot to touch Accessible Web Design tips - the tips no web developer can live without!. Now available in paperback.

It takes a different approach to the standard big and heavy web technique tomes currently available - this one offers light bytes for easy digestion.

It contains 60 easy to understand, practical tips you can put to good use when developing your next website.

Support independent publishing: buy this book on Lulu.

Weblog archive

New Website launched: Accessible Web Design Services Glasgow: Friday 19 Aug 2005

Seminar: The Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and UK websites: Monday 9 May 2005

Jim Byrne leaves Glasgow Caledonian University - now providing Web accessibility services: Thursday 24 Mar 2005

Accessible Web Design in Practice Training Course: Tuesday 16 Nov 2004

Mozilla Accessibility: Monday 18 Oct 2004

The Flash Satay method to embed flash in your pages and support standards: Tuesday 5 Oct 2004

Accessible Web Design in Practice Training Course: Thursday 30 Sep 2004

GAWDS new web design: Tuesday 28 Sep 2004

How to make your pages validate when they include urls with ampersands in them.: Thursday 19 Aug 2004

Develop your sites for a standard compliant browser first then modify for IE/Win: Monday 2 Aug 2004

How to make client-side image maps accessible.: Wednesday 21 Jul 2004

Oralux: Audio GNU/Linux Distro for Vision Impaired Persons: Wednesday 7 Jul 2004

How to hide a flash movie from screen readers and keyboard users: Tuesday 6 Jul 2004

What is the object element for? And what's it got to do with accessibility?: Wednesday 30 Jun 2004

How to get your XHTML pages to validate when using blockquote.: Friday 25 Jun 2004

Is accessible web design a cost or a benefit for clients?: Thursday 24 Jun 2004

Conference: Accessibility in Practice: Wednesday 16 Jun 2004

Web standards and accessibility conference: Thursday 10 Jun 2004

What is an accessible website? - an answer in the form of a diagram.: Wednesday 9 Jun 2004

Start with the assumption that you cannot predict the access needs of your audience.: Tuesday 8 Jun 2004

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"The MCU has being learning how to make websites accessible since 1996 - so we know a thing or two about it. And remember, accessible web design is not about undermining your beautifully crafted visual design; it can be beautiful and accessible."
Jim Byrne, Director of MCU

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