January 23, 2007
I’m very excited to announce the launch of one of my favorite projects of the last few years. It’s the corporate site for Alcon Laboratories, an ophthalmology company based in Ft. Worth, Texas. We’ve been working on this site for quite some time and it came out looking and functioning great. The client was completely on board with the idea of making the site highly accessible. So everything we did, from the architecture and visual design to the front- and back-end programming, had accessibility in mind. This was the first major XML/XSLT project for me. It was a nice change of pace that posed more than a few fun challenges along the way. Take a look at the original template or the live site and let me know what you think. I’m especially interested to hear what you think about the accessibility features we used throughout. What do you think—is it as accessible as it can be?
Categories: Accessibility, News, Web Standards
January 16, 2007
I’ve been looking for a better way to display the large images in the Photography section as well as the screen shots in the Websites section. I finally found one that I’m happy with. It’s called Lightbox JS v2.0 by Lokesh Dhakar, available for free download. On the site it’s described as “a simple, unobtrusive script used to overlay images on the current page. It’s a snap to setup and works on all modern browsers.” I’d have to agree on all accounts… it’s pretty impressive. If JavaScript is not available, the link simply points to the large image itself. You can also group several images in a single window. The user clicks the left or right side of the large image in order to view the next or previous in the set. I’m using it on several of the pages in the Photography section, such as Australia, Studio, and Greece. I’m also using it on the “View Large” link just below the screen shot thumbnails on the Websites page.
Categories: Accessibility, Resources, Web Standards
