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Apart from the web accessibility toolbar for IE and the WAVE tool. Does anyone know of any other tools to assist in web accessibility testing.
I'm also looking for a screen reader emulator.
There's a Firefox plug-in screenreader emulator called Fangs. It doesn't actually read the text and provide audio like JAWS but, it does show the text of how a screenreader would read it.
(source: standards-schmandards.com)
The Illinois Center for Information Technology and Web Accessibility makes a great Firefox plug-in called the Functional Web Accessibility Evaluator (FAE). It analyzes your HTML and finds potential accessibility problems. Coverage includes navigational elements (titles, headings, links, tables, etc.), text equivalents, scripting and even color contrast analysis.
They also have a beta version with ARIA support, and are hoping to soon start development on a Firebug extension.
Overall a very cool plug-in to add to your toolbox!
A screenreader emulator would be... a screenreader. Download JAWS and use the trial version.
I believe the jaws demo will run in 40 minute mode indefinitly but since I"m blind I had to buy the full version. For a list of screen readers as well as my opinions and experiences on them see this question
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Lately i've been reading a lot about RWD (responsive web design), and would like to try to develop a template (for starters). The books that i'm reading are quite outdated (published in the end of 2011), so obviously some code provided doesn't work properly as for the case of css3 flex box module. After researching for a while i found out on Mozzila's developers that Flex Box module will be changed soon.
My question is: What are the most time and performance efficient CSS3 modules to work with for RWD? and any heads-up that i should be careful with?
Besides CSS3PIE are there any good solutions to add css3 functionalities to outdated browsers?
At the risk of sounding mean, SO shouldn't be used to solicit opinions.
However, in the spirit of learning and sharing knowledge, a couple of great places to start would be taking a look at Twitter Bootstrap or Zurb Foundation.
Both are two really great frameworks that will help you create responsive sites. Although they do pretty much the same thing, they are actually two very different frameworks. I'll let you decide as to which one to use.
Another great resource I've found is looking at RWD pattens. Both HTML5 Rocks and Brad Frost's Blog have certainly helped me out.
Good luck.
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http://www.harrietrussell.co.uk/
I'd like to see which font is she using, but when I click on inspect element apparently the only font that I can see declared in CSS in Verdana and it's definitely not verdana.
Any hint much appreciated!
That's an embedded flash file. Web inspector returns only the fonts used in the html. You can do two things to find out about the fonts:
Download and decompile the flash file (there are many decompilers around, maybe a bit morally blameworthy to do this though?)
Take a screenshot of the site and ask in the DaFont forum about the typeface.
Normally I'd use WhatTheFont, but it doesn't identify this one, already tried.
You can't find out as it's all Flash.
Either...
1.) browse some popular font sites like www.dafont.com and find one that is similar that you are happy to user.
2.) email the owner of that website and ask them what the font is.
Good luck!
Take a screen shot of the font.
Submit it here : http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
And see what it says . . .
Or,
Ask here : http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/forum/
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I'm very new to ASP.NET and creating web pages, my previous experience has all been creating WinForms apps. I am having a bit of a rough time just getting the layout of pages the way I want. Whereas I have been used to just dragging and dropping controls exactly where I wanted them on a Windows Form, the VWD development environment for ASP pages seems very fragmented to me with its master pages, content pages, CSS files etc.
What I'd like to know is are there any add-ins or design programs that could greatly simplify designing web pages, so that I can get on with the code behind aspect of my site, rather than spending so long simply trying to get the presentation right?
Well, I can understand moving from WInForms to the Web can be confusing at first.
It's all about understanding HTML and in particular the flow of elements combined with CSS.
There are some tools around (Even visual studio in design mode), but they usually create crappy HTML or a lot of fixed layouts that will not do well on tablets, phones etc.
If you are new, focus on MVC and getting a framework (Example Twitter Bootstrap http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/) should get you up and running quite quickly.
For more info about positioning:
http://www.barelyfitz.com/screencast/html-training/css/positioning
#Pleun made a good comment about using Twitter Bootstrap and ASP.NET-MVC. I'd like to add to it that there is a good library that ties these two together even further:
TwitterBootstrapMVC
You end up writing even less code compare to what you'd have to write. The whole experience indeed becomes similar to drag and drop.
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I only know IE tester.
What if users are using old versions of safari, chrome, firefox, opera, flock?
Is there any All-in-one browser software for CSS debugging? If not, where can I download old versions of browsers?
This tool will be of use to you: http://www.browserstack.com
Quote:
We provide real IE6, IE7, IE8, IE9 and all versions of Firefox,
Safari, Chrome and Opera for testing. With a complete browser stack at
your fingertips, you’ll deliver effective web pages to more than 99.5%
of your users.
It's a paid for tool, but if you are a developer making money or for a big company it's worth it.
You can try Adobe's Browser Lab for free. You just need free a account for use if you dont have.
Here the link: https://browserlab.adobe.com
Multi-Browser Viewer >> http://www.multibrowserviewer.com
Microsoft SuperPreview >> http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/SuperPreview_Overview.aspx
I use them :)
What about user-agent for chrome or what ever your favorit browser is?
its a free solution to your problem, Play around with them, it even show view-ports for tablets, phones and so on!
Just get the item string and then enter it as a new device to your user agent tester, i pref chrome which extension you find HERE their are several different once but i like this one
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Not a technical question lads but ive been looking for a set of icons for a room reservation thing that im working on.
theres loads of icon resources around the web alrite but is there a decent place to go for some quality free icons that anyone can recommend??
I usually go the IconArchive or famfamfam when I'm looking for some tiny ones. Both of the sites have loads of free to use icons sets.
I usually use either well-known an re-usable icon sets, or bespoke search engines to find specific icons (and preferably the whole set they belong to and their license)
Icon Sets
famfamfam
fugue
glaze
tango
openiconlibrary
...
Search Engines
http://images.google.com (always handy, w/ settings for "Icons" and "Commercial Reuse" if needed)
http://www.iconfinder.com/ (quite good, with direct links to the sets and authors' homepages)
http://www.iconarchive.com/ (also quite good)
http://www.findicons.com/ (not as good, but worth a shot)
The easiest approach would be to Google and do a image search for some related term e.g. "no dogs" or "cable tv". You get the idea.
Then simply grab all the icons relevant to your topic.
I like Smashing Magazine as a resource for icons. They have articles linking to high quality resources for icons such as this icon set.
Do a search for Creative Commons Icon Sets, these are free to use with attribution.
Seanau icons is great!
Want to free icons, I'm recommend Iconsfind.com