The title tag attribute is a modern staple of any developers html code base. Most of us use them, more of us should use them more. I've learnt more recently that they have wider implications for Accessibility users, but I've also come to change my thinking of their use.

This article shows how you can use the JQuery tooltip plugin to enhance the title attribute, and how the title tag can be used to convey a more useful message to your browsers.

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I'm a great fan of the Dilbert cartoon series, so I've put together a little application to go and get the Daily Dilbert cartoon strip from the Dilbert website.

It's a simply cfc call that will get today's Dilbert cartoon and save it to a path the user has defined and passed in as an argument.

Let me know if you use it, or think of any ways of to extend it.

It is also one of the first tests I was set as a trainee 10+ years ago, so was quite an interesting comparison to write it again.

You can download it from RIAforge here: http://dilbert.riaforge.org/

This article will discuss different ways to Validate and Test your projects for Accessible criteria, including using standard web browsers and screen readers. I'll also list some of the more popular testing tools I've come across.

This is the third in a series of planned articles dealing with Web Accessibility. In this series I will cover what is Accessibility, how to build Accessibility into web projects, how to test and validate for Accessible users and some other factors to keep in mind when dealing with Accessibly minded projects.

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