accessibility

Silverspine Technology

Wednesday, May 28, 2008

I have devised architecture for developing websites that allows for search engine friendly Silverlight web sites. The current guidelines from Microsoft for Silverlight search engine optimization (SEO) is that they are working with search engines to help them index XAML files, but with Silverlight 2 bundling those XAML files into a XAP file those search engines will have more work than they bargained for to index this new breed of rich interactive applications.…

Silverlight Accessibility and Portability

Sunday, March 16, 2008

What’s the big deal with having your content in a separate file anyway? Beyond SEO and the single responsibility principle there is what I consider to be the single most important reason: Accessibility. When I write about accessibility I really am talking about 508c compliance. If the person viewing your web site is hard of sight or cannot see at all then your site is worthless to them. I won’t go into the legal reason of why your sites should be accessible (search “Target accessibility web site” to know more about that).…