Re: [WSG] Check boxes ticked (UK Law)

2006-01-30 Thread Jude Robinson
Paul Collins wrote: Could anyone tell me if I'm right or wrong and if possible give me some credible links to back this up? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/26/prior_consent_does_not_mean/ Kind of right, kind of wrong :) ** The discuss

Re: [WSG] Target sued over non-accessible site

2006-02-13 Thread Jude Robinson
Stuart Sherwood wrote: Any such aberration of 'rights' that necessarily violates the legitimate rights of others is destructive to our liberty. True when the "others" are people. But we're discussing a scenario where the "other" is a company, and that scenario has radically different requi

Re: [WSG] TARGET in 4.01 Strict

2006-02-15 Thread Jude Robinson
Lachlan Hunt wrote: There are no valid use-cases or reasons for opening a popup window Well...there's *one*: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/open_new_windows.html ...but only one :) Mark Pilgrim wrote a concise little page about popups a few years ago: http://tinyurl.com/4c5n8

[WSG] Tag clouds

2006-03-13 Thread Jude Robinson
Leaving aside arguments about whether or not tag clouds are the new mullets (http://www.zeldman.com/daily/0405d.shtml), I've been pondering how to make one that is accessible, given the questionable accessibility of most of the ones out there. Tag clouds suffer from a number of problems, the bigg