April
2007
Nomensa in Bristol & FIR
I was in Bristol this week for accessibility training from Nomensa, I learned a decent amount of stuff and had chance to double check if the kinds of things I was doing were the right things to do in terms of writing accessible HTML.
It was a great day and many thanks to Emily for delivering a great training session, really useful. I will back track eventually on what has happened and why this site seemed dead for a while. I have a new job, which going forward I’m really excited to have and thus work has been taking a lot of my attention and time and that’s where the trip to Nomensa came from, however it’s all good, got Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) in York soon, that should be fun, but I can rub off some accessible approaches to SEO there now.
I think also I’ve managed to fix the css on / images off issue with one of the image replacement techniques, allow me some more time and I’ll do a proper update on this with examples. Based around the Phark method there must be a way (with JS) to detect when images are off and thus write a new style rule into the DOM for the text-indent line and when JS isn’t there my theroy is that a :hover pseudo class can snap that text back into the viewport when focus is given, my only issue with that is does :hover get focus to something without a mouse, so can a keyboard tab press bring focus to an element and trigger the :hover, I’m sure it can. If you understood that congratulations, you are a top notch web developer! I haven’t tested, the code is not there, however it’s the kind of thing you think of when in the fast lane on the M5 coming back from Bristol as the sun sets, again that is if you are a geek like me.
Photos
Anyway to conclude this unneeded waffle, if you don’t want to read my geek speak but have got this far then after the training session was over I wandered around Bristol city centre obviously camera in hand, groovy place, fountains and water falls a plenty, so as a reward for getting through the brain dump, here are some photies to look at:
The use of water in Bristol is amazing, click for more photos
