Readability 2.0 is disruptive two ways
RELEASED LAST WEEK, Arc90′s Readability 2.0 is a web application/browser extension that removes clutter from any web page, replacing the typical multi-column layout with a simple, elegant, book-style page view—a page view that can be user customized, and that “knows” when it is being viewed on a mobile device and reconfigures itself to create an platform-appropriate reading experience.
How to make dynamic elements accessible in your web apps, part 1
Web apps are frequently defined by JavaScript and other dynamic page elements. In this 7-minute video on web app accessibility, you’ll learn a technique that can help you improve the accessibility of page elements that change.
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Above the Fold
For everyone who believes their entire website has to be “above the fold”, here’s the thing: people know how to scroll a web page. Don’t believe me? Believe Apple.
A proposal for making AJAX crawlable
Webmaster level: Advanced
Today we’re excited to propose a new standard for making AJAX-based websites crawlable. This will benefit webmasters and users by making content from rich and interactive AJAX-based websites universally accessible through search results on any search engine that chooses to take part. We believe that making this content available for crawling and indexing could significantly improve the web.
While AJAX-based websites are popular with users, search engines traditionally are not able to access any of the content on them. The last time we checked, almost 70% of the websites we know about use JavaScript in some form or another. Of course, most of that JavaScript is not AJAX, but the better that search engines could crawl and index AJAX, the more that developers could add richer features to their websites and still show up in search engines.
Some of the goals that we wanted to achieve with this proposal were: