This season we decided to hand-make a Virtual Christmas Card rather than waste money on postage and paper. Then we donated all of the cash we saved to Cancer Research UK.
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I was catching up on a bit of reading this week when I stumbled across an article that for me gives a prime example of the importance of accessibility. This particular case was focussed on a feature which is referred to in the game as “progressive enhancement”. A recent trend in web development circles has been to implement what many people refer to as web 2.0 features to enhance a user’s experience of a site. In essence it should be about adding bells and whistles to features within your site with the overall aim of improving a user’s experience.
From a developers point of view this is a bit of a double edge sword. We love implementing features using cutting edge techniques but our sensible side always has to think about the “what if” situations. What if the user doesn’t have JavaScript turned on, what if the JavaScript fails to load correctly. We get over this hurdle by using the progressive enhancement technique, this means getting a feature to work without the bells and whistles then adding them in such a way that if they weren’t there the feature would still work. This obviously adds to development time and as developers you often have the feeling of is this worth it? I mean really how often as a percent will the non-enhanced version be used?
Well the answer of course is yes it is worth it and this article sums up to me why it is worth it. This details one customers woes when an enhanced feature went wrong which could have ended up causing him pain. Instead he was able to fall back to the non-enhanced implementation and continued to be a happy customer.
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