Color vision deficiency, or color blindness, is a very common disease that affects about 8% of the population. For the MU home page that equals about 5,000 visitors a day. That’s a significant number of users, so it’s important that we add a color blind test to our regular set of accessibility checks.

The 2010 Higher-ed Web Awards, put on by EduStyle, have announced this year’s winners and Illumination Magazine won Best Magazine Site!

Congratulations to Josh Hughes and the MU Office of Research for a job well done.

Building functioning wireframes or site prototypes can be time consuming and limiting, but with the help of a CSS framework you can keep the process speedy and flexible.

These handy links help people using assistive software or hardware, or mobile devices. They allow quick access to the navigation, main content or any other important element on the page without having to “tab” through all the page’s links. Try hitting the tab key (option+tab in Safari) and go through a page’s links to get to the main content. It takes a while doesn’t it? You can see an example of this working on or Mizzou Admissions site.