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Podcast #65: Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe

Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of topics including web accessibility news and events, a top 10 list, SXSW 2009, Nikita the Spider validator, and our friend Joe Dolson.

Download Web Axe Episode 65 (Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe)

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News

Top Ten Tips?

Ten Top accessibility developer tips from Epic (UK)

SXSW Panels 2009

Nikita the Spider

Joe Dolson

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CSS Validator color warnings are not errors

A highly accessible web site uses web standards, which means XHTML and CSS. When using the W3C CSS validator to validate your CSS, many times the following warnings come up: “You have no color with your background-color” and “You have no background-color with your color”. In his blog posting, Roger Johansson explains why CSS Validator colour warnings are not errors. He states:

Those particular warnings are there for accessibility reasons and to remind you that you need to take care when specifying colours. The validator is trying to help you reduce the risk of your author stylesheets interfering with user stylesheets or system-wide colour settings.