Alternative content for video and audio may include: described video,text video description, extended video descriptions, clean audio, content navigation by content structure, captioning, enhanced captions/subtitles, sign translation and transcripts. Also covers system-level requirements for users with a disability.

Great design.

Angela Colter outlines the case for, and methods of, content testing.

Luke Wroblewski talks through the changes in the Twitter sign-up process and how it improved their engagement measures.

Ros Hodgekiss on how major desktop and web based e-mail clients handle alt text for images.

From the site: Fluid builds user interfaces, designs commonly used interactions, teaches others how to build good user-centred designs, and works with other software projects to integrate our solutions into their applications. Fluid is a project of the Inclusive Design Research Centre, OCAD University, funded by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Anthony Kolber on a CSS kerning option, available in some browsers, for better typography. Interestingly, this is not defined in any CSS specs. Apparently it is an SVG property.

By Paras Chopra.

Mathew Patterson provides a showcase of HTML e-mail designs.

Mathew Patterson really is the best at this.

Leslie Jensen-Inman on building accessible sites based on color schemes.

Jaan Orvet and Andreas Carlsson present a progressive approach to donation form UI design.

“Do you believe the ‘pages’ of a ‘digital magazine’ should ‘flip’?” — awesome.

CSS and JS caching tricks by Zach Johnson.

Roger Johansson on best practices for hiding elements using stylesheets.

Roger Johansson on what to do with skip links.

Wil Shipley on writing usability into software.

Shaun Inman’s own URL shortener built in PHP with a MYSQL backend.

Eric Scouten recommends leaving the trailing slash in order to allow trackbacks to work properly. I don’t really care about that, but when I remove slashes using permalinks admin it removes them on “directory” names such as the date based folders which I don’t want.

Matt Cronin on footer section design.

Kimberly Blessing’s approach to semantic progress labels on checkout pages.

Roger Johansson’s links to a presentation by Nate Koechley (Yahoo!) that discusses what front-end engineering is.

Oliver Reichenstein on rethinking tabbed browsing in Firefox.

Mark Boulton and Leisa Reichelt on developing user categories for the Drupal 7 user interface redesign.

WebAIM has made a checklist of WCAG 2.0 recommendations. It’s a quick intro to WCAG 2.0 with an emphasis on the concise and the practical.

Roger Johansson points to an article on configuring your machine for screen reader usability testing.

Bookmarklet by Arc90 that hides the extra visual cruft on a blog or news article and presents the remaining text via a simple user stylesheet.

Mark Boulton on macro, micro and active whitespace.

Brian Christiansen introduces a new podcast from UIE. The format is one question from a caller, and an answer from Jared Spool and Robert Hoekman, Jr., per episode.

New article skimmer interface, still in prototype stage.

New blog by the Adobe Installer team. Here's hoping it will help to improve installer issues on the Mac.

Paul Boag interviews Liz Danzico from Happy Cog on User Research.