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Archive for May 2012

About comments

A quick note about comments here. First: you don’t need to authenticate with anything, but if you don’t, the first time you comment it’ll be held for approval.  Basic anti-spam measure, nothing personal. Second: you can, if you choose, authenticate with Twitter.  If you do that then there’s no waiting for your comment to be [...]

Posted May 28, 2012 by matt in meta

WordPress accessibility

I’ve been pleasantly surprised by the state of WordPress, accessibility-wise. Well, okay, on the reader side of things, anyway.  I haven’t gone to any great trouble to evaluate the status of the admin interface, but have noted that in some places — e.g., the widget configuration page — there’s an explicit “please turn on accessible [...]

Posted May 28, 2012 by matt in accessibility, web

Why headings matter

A conversation some time ago lead to the realisation that not everyone doing web things quite understands why it is that heading elements are important.  This was a bit of a shock, because it seems so obvious, but clearly it isn’t or there wouldn’t have been that long diversion explaining the matter. So. The reason [...]

Posted May 27, 2012 by matt in accessibility, web