About
Me
I am a Web Developer for a leading web agency in the North of England. My specialist areas are Web Standards & Accessibility, CSS and a general blend of the usual web development skills.
I have three years experience in the industry but have been learning for much longer. I am keen to promote and push web standards in any way possible.
The site
This website has several preferences to make it more accessible to low-vision users. You can select the original (default) design and layout, Zoom Layout and High Contrast Zoom layout.
Select one of the below preferences. Settings changed from the original will save a small cookie to save your selected preferences.
Unfortunately, I have decided to remove the access keys I had on this website. This was due to the problems they create for disabled users. Keys in many screen readers, keyboard shortcuts and other aiding technology can be overridden and create many confusing problems.
They're no consistant standards with these and I believe for the time been, until some usable and consistant standard is published they will remain off the main navigation.
These problems are also the same with tabindex.
You can keep up-to-date with all the latest goings on at martinhodgson.co.uk with our XML Feed (RSS 2.0).
You will need an RSS Reader (I recommend Bradbury's FeedDemon) and just add the URL of the Feed into the subscription field. You can then view the latest news and articles, select stories and browse the linked page with the built-in browser.
Although no website is bulletproof, we've done our upmost best to make this website as usable and accessible as possible. It is XHTML 1.0 Strict, CSS Validated, RSS Feed Validated and built using CSS design layout with minimum XHTML markup. You are free to validate these yourself with the links at the foot of the page.
The main purpose of this website is to promote and to push web standards.
The web is for everyone and for websites to be usable and accessible to all, they need to be designed and built with thought towards all users in mind. From the blind to the partially sighted, from a child to an adult, or people just on different browers.
We'll get there eventually, making the web a more usable and accessible place.
