Evangelizing Outside the Box: Web Standards and Large Companies

Contrary to popular belief, designers and developers at many big companies use web standards in their work every day. They just don't talk about it. For standards awareness to reach the next level, they'll have to start talking.

Koch, Peter-Paul. List Apart, A (2007). Design>Web Design>Standards

JavaScript and Accessibility

On this page I give a short introduction to the accessibility issues surrounding the use of JavaScript. It is by no means a complete tutorial; I just want to offer a few rough guidelines and some bits of information. Nonetheless the information on this page seems to be clearer and more complete than the average 'JavaScript and accessibility' page on the WWW.

Koch, Peter-Paul. XS4ALL. Design>Web Design>Accessibility>DHTML

JavaScript Triggers

Now that you've separated your website’s (XHTML) structure from its (CSS) presentation, wouldn’t it be great to similarly abstract the behavioral (JavaScript) layer from the others? ALA prodigal Peter-Paul Koch shows how to use JavaScript Triggers to do just that.

Koch, Peter-Paul. List Apart, A (2005). Design>Web Design>DHTML

Rated XHTML

The W3C’s XHTML language is intended to bridge the web’s past (HTML) and future (XML). Shall we cross this bridge, now that we’ve come to it? Or is XHTML more trouble than it’s worth? Peter-Paul Koch puts forth the pros and cons.

Koch, Peter-Paul. List Apart, A (2000). Design>Web Design>XML>XHTML

Client Centered Design

What is the difference between user centered design and usability? Until writing this column I didn't have the faintest idea.

Koch, Peter-Paul. Digital Web Magazine (2002). Articles>User Centered Design>Usability