Articles, Essays and Tutorials
siteSifter
by Tina Holmboe,
October 2004
Accessibility testing of web documents can be made much easier by using
good, automated, tools. siteSifter, a product of Greytower Technologies,
is just such a tool. It uses advanced pattern matching ...
Accessibility – history and philosophy
by Tina Holmboe,
August 2004
This article aims to explain accessibility by taking a brief look at
the history of information management, problems and solutions, and the
philosophy of access for all.
Disable CSS Bookmarklet
by David Dorward,
May 2004
On observing some startling effects of a commonly use "Favlet" for
disabling CSS, Greytower commissioned well-known accessibility expert
and writer David Dorward to investigate ...
92 Accessibility Audits
by Tina Holmboe,
July 2004
The article, all seven glorious pieces, describes a project which
Greytower was involved with during the fall of 2002 and spring of 2003.
In short, the Swedish National Audit Office commissioned an examination of
government agency websites ...
Content-typing XHTML
by Tina Holmboe,
February 2003
The content of documents on the WWW
is important – not only in the traditional sense, but also because an
UA need to understand the content from a
technical point of view ...
Custom CSS
by Tina Holmboe,
February 2003
Greytower.net uses browser detection to serve browser-specific
CSS-files. This
essay discusses the method used. the tools involved, and touches upon
whether it is a Good Thing to do.
The Z Files
by Tina Holmboe,
January 2002
Using CSS in the right way,
elements of a web-page can be positioned both over and under other elements.
This article explains the concept of a "layer", and shows some examples
of how to use this in web design.
Tsutsumi – the Art of Giftwrapping the Web
by Tina Holmboe,
April 1999, September 2001
When creating pages for the Web, it is important to keep in mind that
visitors may come from a multitude of different situations, using a
multitude of different technologies. This article describes a good
philosophy to keep in mind, and shows a few methods to avoid problems.
CSS vs. Media
by Tina Holmboe,
September 2001
Printer friendly
pages can often be found at sites around the
'net, but there is actually a functional and already supported
alternative to the work involved in creating and maintaining multiple
pages of content ...