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I normally do not recommend software to anyone but today I am going to make an exception. The title and the graphic has already given it away, I am of course speaking about Firefox, Portable Edition.

This is a handy way of taking your own browser with you wherever you go. All you need do is download the software onto your memory stick. Depending on the options you choose this software only requires 27 - 77Mb. Continue reading Firefox in your pocket

As stated often on this site before, website accessibility is not intended to cater only for the needs of the disabled. It also includes ensuring that one’s site is accessible to all the latest technologies out there. Your site has to be available in as many browsers as possible. What about folks who are surfing the Net via mobile devices? Can your site handle this?
Continue reading Just how mobile is your site?

In most articles on website accessibility you will normally find that one of the first things to be discussed is the fact that one should split the layout of your site from the content of that site. Have you ever wondered why this is so?
Continue reading Help yourself as well as others

Bloggers, immaterial of their expertise level, normally have one thing in common, they all want to learn more.

It does not matter if you are a novice, an expert or any level of blogger in between. Some or other time we are going to need to ask someone some questions. Many times we just require a sounding board for our ideas. Most bloggers have their favorite forum(s) to which they turn when they need some kind of assistance. This is a problem however, just where does one find a good forum these days?
Continue reading Blogging assistance, the way it should be provided

According to the accessibility standards we should ensure that pages are usable when scripts, applets, or other programmatic objects are turned off or not supported.

Now what in heaven’s name does all that mean? Simply put it just means that if we have some or other content on our site that is updated dynamically (e.g. through the use of Javascript etc.) we have to find some way of providing the same content through another means should the technology providing the content (JavaScript in this case) not be available.
Continue reading Is there still a place for the noscript element?

Good navigation is essential on any website. For users who are restricted to using the keyboard to navigate a site, or a non-sighted user making use of a screen reader, this navigation becomes even more important.
Continue reading Navigation for all

WordPress security is not really off-topic for this blog. If your WordPress blog gets hacked, I promise you that the blog will be totally inaccessible to everyone, including yourself.
Continue reading WordPress Security

Today I would like to highlight another markup validator, but this time, one with a difference.

Continue reading Total Validator