Collections of Interesting Web Pages

Introduction

Genuine examples of how authors use HTML, categorised above. Each entry has a note about what I thought was interesting.

Goal

To help specifications be more robust and to inform the discussions about them. Especially for web accessibility features.

Feedback

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Summary

Current Work

Straightforward Accessibility Problems

General uses of HTML which have a higher chance of hampering disabled users:

There’s a great deal of previous work in this area!

Of Lesser Interest

Websites (272 entries)

Offline URL Collection
260 websites I saw advertised in offline media.
Accessites: 2 Year stats
Winners.
Accessites: Classic Awards
Winners.
AMD
High-tech company.
HP United States
High-tech company.
IBM United States
High-tech company.
Intel
High-tech company.
Nvu - The Complete Web Authoring System for Linux, Macintosh and Windows
Domain expired before I could fill in my notes!
Open Directory - Computers: Internet: Web Design and Development: Accessibility: Companies and Consultants
Directry of expert webby folk.
Statistical Agencies
Government sites likely to have lots of data tables.
Sun Microsystems
High-tech company.
Sun: Solaris Operating System
High-tech company.
Triple i Convention
High-tech event with low-tech website.
XML declaration with HTML DOCTYPE as text/html.

Tutorials (14 entries)

Accessify:
name must match id with for+id?
ALA: Accessible Data
<ul> with <a> and <span> for <table> with <th> and <td>.
<span> with <span> for <ul> with <li>.
Better Living Through XHTML
HTML4 Transitional to XHTML1 Transitional.
Quirks Mode to Standard Mode confusion.
Ends with hype.
No mention of MIME.
CSUN: Best Practices
“alt tags”.
CSUN: Best Practices
Use XHTML 1.0 Transitional.
CSUN: Ten Checkpoints
Use summary="layout table".
HTML blockquote - Google Search
No notes for this entry.
HTML Heading - Google Search
No notes for this entry.
HTML list - Google Search
No notes for this entry.
HTML table - Google Search
No notes for this entry.
isolani: Creating Structured Tables
<th title> for <th><abbr title>.
Matt Ryan: Headings and Sections
Refers to section levels in terms of heading roles and importance.
Initially seems more complicated than <hn>.
Hidden complexities for implementaions and authors.
(I think </section> is a problem for copy and paste, too.)
NYPL Style Guide: XHTML
XHTML “more accessible”.
TEI P5: Guidelines for Electronic Text Encoding and Interchange: 8 Transcriptions of Speech
Complicated descriptions of super-fine semantics.
XHTML Reference
Bogus “Best practice” about <code> styling.
Strict about <var>.
Incomplete breadcrumb.