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The problem(s) with image accessibility

While the HTML tag is simple, misusing it - such as omitting alt text, using images as spacers or buttons, or embedding text in images - can harm screen reader accessibility, SEO, and user experience. This post reviews 11 specific issues from a sample HTML snippet, stressing that images should be meaningful, accessible, and appropriately implemented. Thoughtful image usage not only improves inclusivity and performance but also reflects professionalism and attention to user needs.
Oded Sharon · 23rd  Apr · 4 min read
Artificial Intelligence

Making Sense of the AI Developer Tools Ecosystem

The AI developer tooling landscape has rapidly expanded from simple autocomplete to a complex ecosystem of assistants, agents, and AI-first environments. In this post, I propose a practical classification based on how AI is positioned within your workflow—from "arm’s length" tools like ChatGPT to fully "AI-first" environments like Cursor.
Colin Eberhardt · 1st  Apr · 7 min read
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Capturing Windows Phone 7 Panorama Images
The Windows Phone 7 Panorama control is widely used in applications and to many has come to symbolise the Metro Design Language.
Colin Eberhardt · 21st  Jul 2011 · 3 min read
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Implementing a Windows Phone 7 Conversation View
This blog post looks at how to to create a conversation view, mimicking the SMS messaging interface within Windows Phone 7. This post shows how we can select different DataTemplate for each item in an ItemsControl to achieve this effect.
Colin Eberhardt · 15th  Jul 2011 · 4 min read
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Flash On The Beach 2011
Yesterday I received the exciting news that I will be speaking at the fantastic Flash On The Beach conference in Brighton this September. As Europe's biggest annual Flash conference it brings together leading minds from all over the industry and focuses on design and development in equal share.
Graham Odds · 12th  Jul 2011 · 1 min read
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Silverlight UK User Group Presentation on Cross Platform XAML
Earlier this week I presented a talk to the Silverlight UK User Group on cross-platform application development with WPF, Silverlight and Windows Phone 7.
Colin Eberhardt · 1st  Jul 2011 · 1 min read
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From Silverlight to HTML5 CodeProject Article
I have just published an article on codeproject which describes the differences in development between Silverlight and HTML5.
Colin Eberhardt · 1st  Jul 2011 · 1 min read
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A Webapp By Another Name III
My colleague Chris Price covered coming up with a "web-less webapp" in part one of this series.
Steven Hall · 1st  Jul 2011 · 3 min read
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Text Overflow Ellipsis - FF, IE7 and background colours
This post is inspired by the news that text overflow ellipsis capabilities have reached the mozilla code base trunk (see bug). This should be in Firefox 7, which thanks to the new 6 week release cycles, won't be long.
Luke Page · 24th  Jun 2011 · 2 min read
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Lazy Lists in Java
This post outlines a general purpose alternative to ArrayLists which provide lazy insertions and deletions to speed up those operations.
Mark Rhodes · 24th  Jun 2011 · 11 min read
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Visiblox MVP Giveaway
Readers of my blog will probably have noticed that I have a keen interest in both charting and performance.
Colin Eberhardt · 23rd  Jun 2011 · 1 min read
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Metro In Motion #8 - AutoCompleteBox Reveal Animation
When I started the Metro In Motion series, I thought I would probably post three or four articles and be done. However, every time I use my Windows Phone 7 I seem to spot a new 'native' fluid UI effect which I would like to use in my own code.
Colin Eberhardt · 20th  Jun 2011 · 4 min read
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JSLint Changes
At the weekend I released a new version of my JSLint for visual studio plugin.
Luke Page · 20th  Jun 2011 · 1 min read
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Metro In Motion Part #7 - Panorama Prettiness and Opacity
This blog post details a simple metro-in-motion behaviour which reduces the Panorama control's contents while the user slides from item-to-item so that they can really appreciate your fancy background graphic!
Colin Eberhardt · 14th  Jun 2011 · 3 min read
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Mathematical-style plots: Retemplating Visiblox Charts
This post demonstrates how to re-template a Visiblox Chart to render data with mathematical-style "on-chart" axes.
Nicholas Wolverson · 13th  Jun 2011 · 4 min read
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JavaScript Anonymous Functions
Up until now I have found the term "anonymous" pretty confusing in the context of JavaScript. In this post I'll explain how to define anonymous functions, what "anonymous" means, and what uses these functions have.
Jonathan Cardy · 10th  Jun 2011 · 2 min read
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A Webapp By Another Name II - The many pitfalls of using the application cache on mobile platforms
In part one I discussed my objective to create a "web-less webapp" which could masquerade as a native application on all modern mobile platforms.
Chris Price · 10th  Jun 2011 · 3 min read
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Metro In Motion Part #6 - Rolling List Location Indicator
This blog post describes the development of a rolling list location indicator. This indicator mirrors the behaviour seen in the native Windows Phone 7 calendar which rolls from one date to the next as the user scrolls.
Colin Eberhardt · 6th  Jun 2011 · 5 min read
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A Webapp By Another Name - The many pitfalls of using the application cache on mobile platforms
In this first installment, I'll introduce the appcache, talk about some gotchas of using the appcache and hopefully give some helpful hints for debugging it based on my experience.
Chris Price · 3rd  Jun 2011 · 3 min read
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Undocumented changes to jQuery "andSelf"
OK, this is a little behind the times since I'm talking about jQuery 1.3.2 - but it may be useful to someone.
Jonathan Cardy · 2nd  Jun 2011 · 1 min read
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A Simple Windows Phone 7 MVVM Tombstoning Example
This blog post shows how to implement tombstoning within a Windows Phone 7 application that following the Model-View-ViewModel pattern.
Colin Eberhardt · 23rd  May 2011 · 13 min read
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Scott Logic and Agile Software Development
Each project is different and each client has different needs. Scott Logic has the flexibility to fit in with client requirements - but often we are asked to take on ownership of the process of software development, as well as the day to day mechanics of cutting code.
Mike Perrin · 17th  May 2011 · 4 min read

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