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Northland College Front Page Redesign

These are the technical notes behind the effort to redesign Northland College’s front page. The new front page is the first step towards a wider initiative to bring the College’s web site up to the latest web and accessibility standards.

For a demonstration of the front page, please visit the following location. When the […]

Tasman & Absolutely Positioned Child Elements

We now have a wonderful workaround for screen-readers that are unable to read elements with a display declaration of none.

For more information about this method, See the “Screenreader Visibility” article at the CSSD Wiki.
The Code Behind this Method

li {
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
left: -999px;
/* and for those HR’s you want to hide: */
width: 400px;
}

Unfortunately, however, the following […]

Linked List Items as Block Elements

With a little help, I managed to work around a common rendering issue with linked list items and Internet Explorer 5 and 6 for windows. I decided to document my findings with a short tutorial on styling unordered lists (ul).
Special thanks go to Michael Ryznar for his assistance.

The Rendering Bug
Without the necessary workaround, Internet […]