Published on by Josh Nichols | Posts by This Author
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.
Published on by Josh Hughes | Posts by This Author
We had a great discussion regarding web fonts and the future of typography on the web at our monthly Mizzou Web Developers meeting this week. Afterward, designer extraordinaire Josh Hughes sent an e-mail to the listserv outlining some of the basics. I present it to you, kind reader, in its entirety.
Published on by Jason Rollins | Posts by This Author
@font-face is all the rage in the CSS world these days and I’ve been dying to give it a whirl. This entry won’t discuss the best practices in terms of CSS syntax or the ins-and-outs of @font-face; that has been done in numerous other places which I will link to at the bottom of this entry. I’d rather focus on a specific Windows-related issue.