From: David L. Herrington
Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:46 AM
To: 'wda-discussion@princeton.edu'
Subject: WDA meeting, May 19: Firebug and ADA Compliant Web Programming
Our final WDA meeting for this academic year will be on Tuesday, May 19, from noon to 1:00 PM in Frist room 234. Bring your own lunch. We will provide bottled water. Our speakers this month will be Harris Crist from OIT Departmental Application Services and Michael Muzzie from OIT Web Development Services.
Hope to see you next Tuesday.
Dave Herrington
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Firebug [Harris Crist]
Firebug is a free Firefox extension that provides a suite of client-side evaluation and debugging tools for your web pages. Harris will demonstrate how to use Firebug to modify and debug CSS on the fly, as well as inspect and debug your JavaScript. Since Firebug allows you to interact with all aspects of the HTML/CSS/JavaScript that the browser uses to draw your page in what feels like a "stateful" way, it saves developers from having to continually make incremental CSS changes or set alert boxes and then upload those changes to your server before reloading the page.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Compliant Web Programming [Michael Muzzie]
Universal Access to web content is not just an ideal, for many it is the law, but how accessible do we need to make our web applications? If we don't have any blind people (or deaf people, or arthritic people, or epileptics) visiting our sites, do we need to worry? Is all of this effort worth it for such a small percentage of our audience? Will the Accessibility Police bust down our doors because of some sloppy programming?
We will briefly discuss tools for accessibility validation and ways that you can make text, images, navigation, forms, PDFs, video, and audio a bit more usable for all of your web visitors.