My name is Ashley Sheridan, and I'm quite good at my job: developing and building websites. I thoroughly enjoy what I do, and spend quite a bit of my free time exploring and playing with new technologies. I enjoy a challenge, and see one not as an obstacle, but a target to beat. I like thinking outside of the box and always prefer to spend a little bit more time thinking on a problem than diving into tackling it right away, to ensure that I've done the best I can.
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Contained in the articles section you will see an assortment of articles directed from personal opinion, across a variety of subject areas. If you have any feedback or suggestions on any of the content on this site, please contact me.
The RNIB puts sight loss in the UK at about 2million people, which they estimate is about 1 in every 30 people in the country. That's the number of people with significant loss, and of those over 364,000 (as of March 2006) are registered as severely sight impaired (blind) or sight impaired (partially sighted). Catering for these people is easy on the web isn't it thouhg? Just chuck alt text into images and you're done right? Sadly, this seems to be a popular train of thought for some and really misses the point. Here are just some disabilities it fails to help, and that's me running off a few from the top of my head:
The new selectors in CSS3 are very powerful, and allow for some interesting ways of creating interactivity on a website that doesn't rely on JavaScript. Typically, a lot of these new techniques are available in the majority of web browsers being used with the obvious exception of IE up tp and including 8, which limits their usefulness when compared with current JavaScript solutions, but that shouldn't detract from the other advantages.
