This nifty tool called Vischeck simulates colorblind vision for your Websites. It currently doesn’t function 100% with complex CSS, but, at least, you can check if the contrast values you used for fonts and backgrounds are enough to be visible and readable by people who live with daltonism.

Simulate colorblind vision with your own Web pages

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Here am I again, the trip to Tenerife was really fun and relaxing (I’ll post photos soon !). Not such was our travel ! We encountered several problems with an the EasyJet airline and thought for a moment that we would have to go back home (we missed a fly due to a belated arrival in Madrid). I would now easily recommend anyone to try to avoid low-cost companies as possible when flying with escales that aren’t connected between themselves… and I also recommend the company AirEuropa that was really kind and booked for us the day after freely, fortunately, even if they weren’t responsible at all for the belated fly (with EasyJet). AirEuropa was also kind enough to help us finding an hotel with a reasonable price inside Madrid.

In Tenerife we learnt that European passenger laws bring several rights, for flights belated with 2 hours and 1500km (which happened to us) such as paying any fees occurring to the passenger due to the delay they caused (hotel, tickets, refreshments, meals, unused and reserved night hotels). But the Easyjet staff in Madrid was not even helpful (they just said : “we cannot do anything, just go on the net reading what your rights are, you could maybe get a refreshment” (which we never had, ahah). I don’t know if it’s incompetence or if that’s really how the company works… I’m working writing a nice letter right now in order to see if we can get some compensation… cross fingers please ! (notice they also did break my suitcase on the return trip, sigh). I’ll keep you updated on this.

Everything was just fine on one of my Web developping projects : valid, correct and conform code, right display on Firefox and on Explorer. But one day, a client (using IE6) phoned me asking why the content had disappeared from the web pages. I switched on IE6 to look, but nothing was wrong. After cleaning my cache several times and trying again to see the ghost content… Booh ! The text and photos suddenly disappeared under my eyes.

After doing some research on what may cause the content to swing in that odd way, I found informations on what is funnily called the “peek-a-boo” bug. Basically, IE6 has some kind of interpretations problems with floating divs included in liquid boxes. The bug can be easily fixed by applying a relative position to the parented div.

Learn more about the “peek-a-boo” bug (IE6)