For some time now, I’ve wanted to update everyone on Fluid’s recommendations regarding JavaScript toolkits. We’ve done a lot of research and evaluation of various open source products, and have chosen jQuery as our favoured toolkit. We think the accessibility plugins and utilities we’ve been writing with jQuery will be useful to a wide range […]

In follow up to Simon’s recent posting about the intricacies of cross-browser support for the tabindex attribute, I’ve written a jQuery plugin that makes it easy to get, set, and check for the presence of tabindex values.
Getting the Source Code
The source code is currently available in the Fluid Project SVN, and will be included in […]

I recently implemented some functions for Dojo for getting, setting, and removing tabindex values. It’s not entirely straightforward — here’s what I found out:
Browsers tested

Internet Explorer 6 on Windows XP
Internet Explorer 7 on Windows XP
Firefox 2 on Windows XP
Firefox 3 beta3pre (the Minefield nightly build of 2008-01-07) on Windows XP
Safari 3.0.4 on Mac OS X […]

For the past couple of months we’ve been planning a comprehensive set of what we’re calling “UX Walk-throughs“—a combination of heuristic evaluations and cognitive walk-throughs—of Moodle, Sakai, and uPortal. The goal of these walk-throughs is to identify areas of the user interface that are most in need of improvement, allowing us to prioritize our design […]

I recently had an interesting phone conversation with Eva De Lera Tatjer and Jose Manuel Rivera López from the Open University of Catalonia (UOC, for short) in Barcelona, Spain. UOC is a completely virtual university with over 40,000 students taking courses online.
Eva and Jose are working on a project called MyWay, which involves the […]