Closing the gap - User Agent improvements

AlastairC talks about improvements that could be made with User Agents including, most interestingly, the idea of setting up 'Profiles'. The idea behi [...]

User Agent Switcher Extension

is a Firefox extension and allows you to switch the user agent of the browser. By Chris Pederick. [...]

User-defined Access keys

Gez Lemon and Rich Pedley have been devising a technique that allows a website user to define their own shortcut keys. Gez says:Access keys are a [...]

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A Naive User's Guide to Running Windows More Securely

Even if you think you're a fairly competent Windows user, there's still plenty of useful stuff to read here. [...]

Interview with a dyslexic web user about web access

Another insightful interview over at Access 2.0. [...]

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Interview with a deaf and blind web user about web access

Paul Crichton talks to Liz Ball about how she gets on accessing the web. A lot of deafblind people use the internet for shopping - it's much easier t [...]

Firefox Plugins for Mobile Web Developers

From MobileStartup.comwmlbrowser - Add WML markup support to your browser.XHTML Mobile Profile - Add xHTML MP support to your browser.User Agent Switc [...]

Above the fold

Very interesting article on the Digital Web Magazine mentioning 'the fold' in web design.Yes, 'the fold' is where the page cuts off in a user's bro [...]

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timbl

Well, everyone else is heaping on the praise, and quite rightly too! A rather exciting prospect this blog! Tim Berners Lee has a blog. [...]

Everything you know about CSS is wrong

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43 Web Design Mistakes You Should Avoid

Some very good tips in this list including:The user must know what the site is about in secondsMake the content scannableDo not play music [...]

Mobile Web design Tips

Cameron Moll brings us the third and final instalment in his series on desigining websites for the mobile user. [...]

Improving usability

for screen reader users. [...]

Some neat .htaccess tips and tricks

...including:Redirect Visitors While You Update Your SiteHandle Moved or Renamed PagesCreate User Friendly URLs [...]

Songbird

Songbird is a Web player built from Firefox's browser engine. Songbird is open source, will run on Windows, Mac OS X and Linux and supports user con [...]

Search Engine Highlighting

Handy script that highlights the terms a user enters in your search engine: from Brian Suda. [...]

caps lock detection

I found this useful, but quite large, script through the Quirksmode site. You can detect if the user has Caps Lock on, and throw up an error messag [...]

Multi Select Limit

How to limit the number of items that a user could select in a mulit-select box ... Web Tricks. [...]

XP SP3 coming soon?

If you're a Windows XP user and haven't updated your operating system to Vista yet, you can rest assured that Microsoft are planning to release the ne [...]