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Our site is undergoing a complete overhaul. We are developing an entirely new css based support site. This page is utilizing an obsolete layout but was utilized in our usability and flexibility studies. Please note that if you have any bookmarks to specific pages within the support site, they will remain active and in many cases will still be in their original format.

We will update this page with new and redesigned pages as they are validated for standards compliance and become available online. Thank you for your support.

Please contact us for more information or to contribute relative information and topics. For more information about web accessibility please visit our Web Accessibility section. Be sure to register or login to participate in discussions and to submit material for related topics.

While our web pages are viewable like any standard HTML pages, we also have links to files that may require additional software downloads to run programs or browser plug-ins. This page lists the proper software or plug-in for the type of file you are attempting to open.

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Articles and Information

Colour vision:

Introduction to The Bases of Colour Vision: Early philosophers and scientists held very different views regarding vision and colour perception than those now accepted in contemporary vision science. In this component of the Bases of Colour Vision, we will explore some of those views. created by:Brian Thomas Wagner and Donald Kline, University of Calgary

Barrier-free presentation: Color blindness is not a total loss of color vision. Color blind people can recognize a wide ranges of colors. But certain ranges of colors are hard to distinguish... by:Masataka Okabe, King's College London (UK) / National Institute of Genetics (Japan); Kei Ito, University of Tokyo, Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biosciences (Japan)

Usability:

Usability for Senior Citizens: The Internet enriches many seniors' lives, but most websites violate usability guidelines, making the sites difficult for seniors to use. Current websites are twice as hard to use for seniors than for non-seniors... by:Jakob Nielsen

Power To The People: Relative Font Sizes: Relative font sizes make websites more accessible and easier to read - but they're not much help unless the person using the site can find a way to actually change text size... by:Bojan Mihelac

Targeting IE Using Conditional Comments and Just One Stylesheet: The Star-HTML hack was a very elegant way to easily target style rules at IE and apply fixes. Internet Explorer 7 has fixed the Star-HTML hack, taking away the elegance... by:Hiroki Chalfant

Usability Reports, User Research, and Design Guidelines: Research testing websites, intranets and emails... by:Nielsen Norman Group

5 Reasons Webmasters Don't Worry About Accessibility: Not to be confused with 'Usability', accessibility is all about giving equal access to everyone. It has become a bit of a buzz-word recently, in all areas of society... by:iffect.net: Blogging Advice

Standards and Compliance:

Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE: You've done all the right stuff, but your site doesn't look or work as it should in the latest browsers... provided by:Jeffrey Zeldman

Source Order, Skip links and Structural labels: Is page source order important to screen reader users? Recently, the idea of placing the informational content of a web page before the navigation has gained some currency... by:Roger Hudson, Russ Weakley and Lisa Miller

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CSS Resources

Tutorials

• AlsaCreations: CSS and (X)HTML : tutorials and lessons
• CSS Basics: Introduction to CSS
• HTML Dog: CSS Beginner Tutorial
• HTML Dog: CSS Intermediate Tutorial
• HTML Dog: CSS Advanced Tutorial
• WPDFD: CSS from the Ground Up
• TIZAG: CSS Tutorial
• W3Schools: CSS Tutorial

Reference

• W3C: Cascading Style Sheets
• FriendlyBit: Beginner's guide to CSS
• SitePoint: CSS Reference

CSS Galleries

• CSS Drive: CSS Gallery

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