Creating screen-reader friendly read more links

Written on May 6, 2014

Over the course of my career I have worked on more than a fair share of higher-education sites. When dealing with a universities website there are many challenges. One of the biggest challenges is in dealing with the accessibility standards. I am writing about WCAG. The WCAG, or Web Content Accessibility Guidelines, is a detailed list for how accessibility should be done on the web.

I might write about the problems with WCAG at some point, but this article is about strictly an incompatibility between what the designer/UX people want and what the WCAG says about “READ MORE” links. Specifically WCAG 2.0 SC 2.4.4. This states that any link needs to have context.

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Written on November 21, 2013

Front End CSS Design Paradigms have been a very hot topic lately and many people are attempting to solve the problem of large CSS rule sets that are difficult to maintain. With all the new options it might be difficult to decide where you should focus your attention. Here is a little overview of some of the more popular options.

Object Oriented CSS

OOCSS has several principles that it is built upon.