I don’t like watching videos or dealing with multimedia presentations when I’m looking for information online. It got me thinking that accessible alternatives should be provided for reasons beyond traditional accessibility. They give users in a hurry, without hardware, or with video-aversion a way to get the information they’re looking for.
There’s a common difficulty encountered by ajax web applications that use JavaScript to change the state of the page. Since web browser history does not log JavaScript events, the back, forward, and bookmarks don’t work by default. There are plugins to solve this, but I want to understand generally what they’re doing.
I’ve been having a run of really bad luck with customer service recently. It got me wondering about how well I serve my customers as a freelance web designer. So, freelancers: how much attention do you give your customer service skills?
Documenting my findings about what’s required to emulate traditional navigation on JavaScript enhanced sites. It should include graceful degradation, bookmarking, linking, and back/forward (plus any other details that are slipping my mind). Since I usually use plugins for this sort of thing, I want to learn what those plugins are actually doing.