Design & Development
HAWHAW: Developing WEB, WAP and Voice Enabled content portal
April 19, 2007, by svo9712
When developing any mobile content portal we generally think about the accessibility of that portal through the mobile browsers (like Nokia, Openwave, i-mode browsers, AvantGo in PDA etc) which generally uses markup languages like WML, HDML, cHTML, XHTML etc. But how about if a general markup language can serve all the necessity even the VoiceXML output also. HAWHAW is such a toolkit to create universal mobile portals which can be accessible through the Web, mobile as well as through the voice browsers... Read More
Fixit – Pop up windows
April 13, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Pop-up windows are not supported on many mobile devices, and using them can have unpredicatable results. This test checks that you are not using pop up windows in your markup... Read More
Fixit – Access keys
April 4, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
Access keys allow a user to quickly navigate to a link on a page by assigning one of the keypad keys to that link. This removes the need to navigate to the link using repeatedly pressing the navigation key of a device. This tests determines if you have used accesskeys in your markup and raises a warning where appropriate... Read More
Fixit – Specify image sizes
March 29, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
When images are referenced from within your markup, you should tell the browser the display dimensions of the image. This test checks that you have included a width and height attribute with all images in your document. ... Read More
Fixit – Structure
March 28, 2007, by Ruadhán O'Donoghue
All but the most simple documents should indicate their structure through the use of headings and sub-headings. Headings should not be used solely to create font effects. This test checks that your document has been written with a logical structure... Read More
