Daily Archives: February 15, 2005

The best Firefox extension

Posted on February 15, 2005 by David Megginson

The Firefox browser has a lot of well-loved extensions like AdBlock and ImageZoom (especially useful for looking at weather maps online), but my personal favourite is a little-known one called Show Anchors Anyone writing for the web — and especially … Continue reading →

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xml:lang is an accessibility issue

Posted on February 15, 2005 by David Megginson

Charl van Niekerk has an interesting posting on a topic that should have been be more obvious to me: that the xml:lang attribute (and HTML lang) are critical for making online information accessible to the visually-impaired. Voice synthesizers that read … Continue reading →

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