Starting with semantic HTML, and layering enhancements using JavaScript and CSS, is supposed to create good experiences for all. Alas, enhancements still find their way to aging browsers and under-featured mobile devices that don’t parse them properly. What’s a developer to do? Scott Jehl makes the case for capabilities testing.
Continue reading »Standards promised to keep the web from fragmenting. But as the web standards movement advances in several directions at once, and as communication between those seeking to advance the web grows fractious, are our standards losing their relevance, and their ability to foster an accessible, interoperable web for all?
Continue reading »With elections looming, the New York Times’ recently posted an article written by the AIGA. The article entitled, “How Design Can Save Democracy” seeks to illustrate how improving the design of voter ballots might help improve the voter experience and lead to less voter error.
Continue reading »HP says it will slash 24,600 jobs over the next three years, nearly 8 percent of its work force. The move comes as HP combines operations with Electronic Data Systems Corp., the technology-services company it recently acquired.
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