A List Apart 235
April 10, 2007
In Issue No. 235 of A List Apart, for people who make websites: Setting Type on the Web to a Baseline Grid, by Wilson Miner. Web designers have spent the last year or so discussing the application of sophisticated grid systems to multi-column layouts. Miner shows how to apply the same principles of proportion and balance to the type within those columns by borrowing another technique from our print brethren. Plus Accessible Web 2.0 Applications with WAI-ARIA by Martin Kliehm. “Web 2.0 applications often have accessibility and usability problems because of the limitations of (X)HTML. The W3C’s standards draft for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) … increases usability for all users by enabling navigation models familiar from desktop applications.”