Advanced CSS Design Resources – last-child.com

Yahoo! has been thriving on hacks. It’s quarterly Hack Days have given engineers the opportunity to build radical and sometimes silly alterations of existing services. Once in a while, these hacks are truly revolutionary. Enter Yahoo! Pipes. This super cool project started as a Hack and has now become an official project. How cool is [...]

In December, I made a number of predictions for the 2007. I confidently predicted that Gez Lemon would discover a solution to AJAX accessibility issues. Gez had earlier defined the virtual buffer’s role in JAWS. Understanding the virtual buffer is essential for empowering screen reader users, particularly considering the number of Web 2.0 applications that [...]

Joe Clark has an ambitious project on the docket. The Open & Closed Project hopes to create a new standard for video captioning. It also includes plans to develop better training and certification for those creating captioning. Joe even has plans for developing and implementing new fonts that would make it easier to view the [...]

User generated ratings and reviews are an important part of all Yahoo! sites. You can find them on just about every page of Yahoo! Tech.  It was important for us to develop a ratings presentation device that was easy to code, accessible, flexible, and as light-weight as possible. Our final design uses a combination of [...]

Kent Brewster has come up with a novel solution for the inaccessible image-based captchas. Captchas are those images of obscured text to keep robots from spamming web sites. They’re a royal pain for those with visual disabilities. Kent has solved this with a Web 2.0/social bookmarking bent. His RSS CAPTCHA Prototype asks you to visit [...]