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All the humorous (and not-so-humorous) stories on working with web accessibility.

BRB!

by David Mascarina on July 20th, 2008 under Red Stapler Corner

We’ve just been busy busy busy! Don’t worry, we haven’t forgotten Blacktelephone!

I just want to let our readers know that we will be posting at Blacktelephone.com as soon as we can. Please stay tuned!

David Mascarina
BT Blogger :-)

This May be News to Many, but Bobby’s Gone

by David Mascarina on April 18th, 2008 under Current Events, Red Stapler Corner

Just reiterating, for “Bobby” lovers out there… The Bobby Tool is DEAD!

Here’s the notice from Watchfire in regards to Bobby and WebXact.

That Plugin Made my Site [Invalid]

by David Mascarina on March 25th, 2008 under Best Practices, Red Stapler Corner, Web Standards

So, as I am developing this blog, I spent most of my time making sure that the website passes all validation that I know. I ran the CSS, XHTML and 508 Validation using Chris Pederick’s Firefox toolbar, even used the Web Accessibility toolbar’s WAVE tool, to make sure that when we launch this site that it passes all standards known. Then I came across Feedburner’s e-mail signup plugin. Continue reading That Plugin Made my Site [Invalid]

Workarounds Cost Arounds: Browser Edition

by David Mascarina on March 25th, 2008 under Red Stapler Corner, Web Standards

Man pulling his hair screaming IEEEEE!Web designers around the world have two biggest challenge in their projects. To make their websites look right on Internet Explorer 6 and for those who cares, to pass HTML/XHTML validation and adhere to web standards. Somewhere in the world at this very second, some web designer in their little cube is screaming “IEEEEEE!!!” It’s a universal call out for disdain. A recent article from Yahoo! Internet News, web developers and designers spends countless hours debugging websites to adhere to web standards as well as make it “look good” in I.E. 6. Continue reading Workarounds Cost Arounds: Browser Edition