The Paciello Group Blog – Ruthless automation

The Paciello Group Blog

Finally starting to work back through the archive of The Paciello Group blog. Excellent stuff there. Some highlights from older stuff:

Why Section 508 is not working – might explain why some govt. agencies are coming back with harsher responses.
Fieldsets, legends, and screenreaders – I’ve written abotu legend before. There are problems with the CSS styling of legend in Firefox, see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=269908. Best answer I’ve seen so far (from Michael at work) is to put a <span> element in the legend and style that. Same trick is mentioned in the bug, FYI.
AJAX and screen readers – always wanting to know more about this. Gives a great explanation of how virtual buffers work, which I never really understood.

More links as I keep reading.

2008/7/16 – 7:51 am | By scott | Posted in accessibility, blogging | Comments (0)

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Ruthless Automation is a name I swear I read somewhere, but have never been able to track down. It’s the way I want to approach my work – there’s never an excuse to do something by hand when you can make it easier with some up-front sweat equity.

Currently I’m a web developer in Dayton, Ohio, with a focus on writing HTML and CSS by hand, and enhancing things with jQuery and YUI where needed.

I love beautiful UIs (actually anything that’s done well) and hope to make myself into a designer over time, but want to keep writing code as well. I do that in Emacs and nothing else.

I’m very interested in mobile, especially the iPhone, and I’m learning Objective C on my own to try my hand at an app. The Nexus One is the second best phone I’ve ever seen, though, and it keeps me honest about web apps versus native.

Finally, I live with my wonderful wife and our daughter Grace. Being a father rewards me in ways I never could have imagined, and I try to appreciate that at least once a day.
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