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  • alt in HTML5 Required? – to be or not to be

    There has been much discussion both within and outside of the W3C HTML5 Working Group about the HTML5 editor’s decision to make the alt attribute optional, to cover those cases…

    February 7, 2008Technical

  • HTML 5 first working draft released

    The first working draft of HTML5 has been published: “…to make comments regarding this document, please send them to public-html-comments@w3.org. …All feedback is welcome…The publication of this document by the…

    January 22, 2008Technical

  • Providing Context for Ambiguous Link Phrases

    It’s not unusual to stumble upon ambiguous link phrases on web pages (phrases such as, “Click here”, “More”, and so on). Some screen readers allow users to gather a list…

    December 2, 2007Technical

  • Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers

    Note: I wrote this article in 2007, there is a 2023 update Fieldsets, Legends and Screen Readers again. Italian translation Fieldset, Legend e Screen Reader by Roberto Castaldo. The grouping…

    November 22, 2007Technical