Applications

WCAG 2.0 Contrast tools

Posted on Friday, April 17th, 2009

One of the challenges of modern web design is ensuring that the colours used are  WCAG 2.0 contrast compliant. Although there are sites that automatically check a URL for WCAG 2.0 contrast compliance they’re not really that useful for the design process. Here are a couple of useful tools that we use on our projects.
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Google Chrome

Posted on Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

Google has announced the release of their new browser and currently offer a beta version for Windows XP and Vista. Though we are totally Mac based we have been testing it out through the medium of Parallels (essential for testing our sites) and so far have been impressed. Can’t wait for the Mac native version.

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Fluid

Posted on Friday, July 25th, 2008

I came across an incredibly useful piece of software called Fluid (Mac OS X only). In a nutshell Fluid enables you to build your own stand-alone applications based on any website. Cool!

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Oxidizer

Posted on Thursday, July 24th, 2008

I stumbled across this rather excellent application for Mac OS X that enables you to generate cosmic images. You can download Oxidizer from here

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