Juicy Studio: No artificial additives

Welcome to Juicy Studio

Juicy Studio is an independent UK website, run by Gez Lemon. It's an unfortunate surname, but explains why the site is Juicy.

When life deals you a lemon, make a lemon meringue pie.

— Me

The mission of this website is to promote best practice for web developers in a fast moving industry. Whether you're a novice or a professional, there's something for you.

Say No to noscript

I'm surprised that the noscript element is conforming in HTML5, as there are much better techniques for ensuring that pages work with or without JavaScript. Despite early accessibility advice advocating use of the noscript element, best practice is to use unobtrusive JavaScript for progressive enhancement, rather than relying on fallback content.

Purpose of the summary Attribute

The purpose of the summary attribute is to concisely describe the structure of a data table. The summary attribute is not intended to provide a long description for data tables.

Requiring the alt Attribute in HTML5

I'm putting together a list of pros and cons about making the alt attribute required in HTML 5. The following is a list of reasons for and against making the alt attribute required. What is your opinion?

Seven Things Meme

Steve Lee tagged me with the "Seven Things" meme, where you have to share seven facts about yourself and tag seven people to pick up the meme.

Twitter Focus

Considering the standard Twitter website is so basic, it's surprising it is so inaccessible. This Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script puts the favourite, reply and delete links into the keyboard tab order to make it easier for keyboard-only users to use Twitter.

Luminosity Contrast Ratio Main Colour Contrast Analyser

The Accessibility Evaluation and Repair Tools (AERT) colour contrast algorithm was never a recommendation. As the luminosity contrast ratio algorithm is recommended with WCAG 2.0, it is now the main method of testing colour contrast on Juicy Studio.