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Using fieldsets outside of forms

By Isofarro on April 30th, 2009 - 2 comments

The focus on using the most appropriate markup in JavaScript enhanced pages has raised an interesting problem about the use of form elements outside of a form. And using a fieldset to group these elements together is proving to be a very useful way of making them accessible. Using form elements outside of a form […]

Punctuating text-equivalents

By Isofarro on January 2nd, 2009 - 3 comments

When we have an image on a web page and that image conveys content, then we know it is important to provide a text equivalent of the content that image offers. The most typical (but not only) way of doing this is to add the text equivalent content in an alt attribute on that image. […]

Providing link text

By Isofarro on March 4th, 2008 - No comments

In websites offering news, it’s common for there to be a story title and an image both linking to the actual story. The design requirement, or even a tracking requirement, may force there to be two separate links, one for the story title, and one for the story image. Image links A common mistake is […]

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