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Are you looking forward to 2011? I am! It should be a good year with HTML 5 and CSS 3 taking off, IE 9 finally coming out of beta (hopefully!) eBooks taking even more of a hold and so much more for web and XML developers every where! Happy New Year!

Happy Last Day of 2010 - Welcome 2011! originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Friday, December 31st, 2010 at 16:31:51.

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Submitter’s comments: None. I was reading an article about beautiful and inspirational websites. In these lists you can often find several sites that I like to call “Crap on China.” They’re beautiful, but have crappy usability.

Vincent Flanders’ comments: I don’t know what it is about certain websites. They look nice, but they’re crap. They often make a big deal of following web standards which, according to Wikipedia is defined as:

“When a web site or web page is described as complying with web standards, it usually means that the site or page has valid HTML, CSS and JavaScript. The HTML should also meet accessibility and semantic guidelines.”

I’m not a total stickler for web standards. The are reasons why invalid HTML isn’t the end of the world (target=”_blank” in XHTML and even HTML5 is one that comes to mind). The same holds true for CSS and JavaScript. On the other hand, I have one simple, elementary web standard that must be followed:

I NEED TO BE ABLE TO READ WHAT’S ON THE F**KING PAGE.

Or to put it in web standards terminology, “The W3C recommends a standard of 500 or greater for the color difference and a standard of 125 or greater for color brightness.” These recommendations are in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0.

I ran adlucent’s home page through AccessKeys’ AccessColor tool and it generated the following:

Based on these considerations, the results for this page are:

1. Both color difference and color brightness do not meet the recommended standard for 13.94% of the total text.
2. Either color difference or color brightness does not meet the recommended standard for 85.22% of the total the text.

Text on background with images is for 0.68% of the total text.

Here’s a screen shot just in case they fix the page.

adlucent

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adlucent – The Last But Not Least Daily Sucker for December 31, 2010

If you’ve been to WPTS and read the articles, you’ll know that lack of contrast between the text and the background color upsets me for one simple reason:

I NEED TO BE ABLE TO READ WHAT’S ON THE F**KING PAGE.

You would think any designer whose IQ is higher than an ice cube understands this concept. Nope. Today’s Daily Sucker, adlucent, is unclear on the concept.

On the other hand, there are actually times when it’s permissible—even mandatory—for text to be unreadable. Scroll down and take a look at the footer of Wachovia Bank’s home page. The text color is #8B8B8B on a background of #FFFFFF, which fails the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0. This is just one line of text from their footer that’s hard to read.

Important new FDIC insurance rules in effect from December 31, 2010 through
December 31, 2012. Learn More

Why would they want their customers to read and understand the new rules?

My current privacy page fails big time. My original privacy page is very readable.

Privacy pages, footers and important information that’s considered “the fine print” can be made hard to read. If you don’t want people reading your text, make the text small and lower the contrast.

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There are times when you don’t want people to read your text.

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Domain names are important to websites because they make it easier to get to the site and people feel that companies without their own domain name are not as reliable as those with their own domain. But getting and keeping a domain can be very difficult. I heard a story a few weeks ago about someone who had trouble renewing their domain and inadvertently lost it. Then their domain registrar (who shall remain nameless) said they could re-register it if they paid them a $50 bounty on the domain (in addition to the domain fees). Unfortunately, this type of hijacking is much more prevalent than it should be. Have you ever had a problem with getting or keeping a domain name?

Poll: Have you ever had a problem with a domain name? originally appeared on About.com Web Design / HTML on Thursday, December 30th, 2010 at 01:00:27.

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