Category Archives: Usability

Text Contrast – Website Testing Series

March 25, 2009 – 12:00 pm

It’s such a simple thing but designers are not per se website designers – in the same way that SEO people are not website designers. I can’t use photoshop to save myself but its important that all designers understand the basics of a webpage and having a good contrast between text and background is hugely [...]

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Checking Alt attributes – Website Testing Series

March 17, 2009 – 5:10 pm

One of the cool things in CSS is the ability to add styles to elements with certain attribute values – so you can style based upon the context of an HTML element. During website testing a useful thing to do is to test and make sure that images, where appropriate, have an alt attribute.
Having a [...]

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