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What Does the European Accessibility Act Mean for Developers?

by Hassan Djirdeh March 05, 2025 5 min read

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The LOB Chronicles Episode 10: UI Consistency

We have taken quite an adventure in chronicling the new Silverlight CRM demo and all the behind-the-scenes work that goes into making new demos for our site, but now we finally get to talk about the really fun stuff – UI. I know, I know, depending on what hat you are wearing at your company you may be thinking “Hey, I loved the previous posts on MEF (here and here) as well as what you were saying about the Repository Pattern, what’s all this UI business?” As it turns out, Telerik sells a wide range of UI components that are used...

by Evan Hutnick
May 27, 2021 5 min read Share
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Lessons From Steve Jobs

A lot of people have posted tributes to Steve Jobs over the past week. I’ve seen him called the CEO of the Decade (something I agree with) and also compared to Henry Ford (I sort of agree with). I’d like to call attention to four lessons we can learn from Steve Jobs’ Apple, two positive and two negative. First the good: Apple avoided falling into the trap of the Innovator’s Dilemma Apple avoided falling into the trap of the Innovator’s Dilemma. In a nutshell, the Innovator’s Dilemma says the following (I am paraphrasing): when you invent something, first you are trying to penetrate a new market and convince people to buy your...

by Steve Forte
May 27, 2021 4 min read Share
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StarWest Follow Up and Slide Deck

I’m at the John Wayne airport waiting on my flight back home from the StarWest conference. This was the first conference I’ve been at as a vendor – I’ve always been a visitor at the front of the booth, never behind it. I had to make some interesting mental changes, but it was a great experience once I got in the groove. Thursday morning I did a session called “Automation Isn’t Just Shiny Toys” where I discussed how to avoid some of the common pitfalls around automation: long running tests, brittle tests, tests which consume far too much time for ...

May 27, 2021 2 min read Share
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Telerik Test Studio @StarWest 2011

Hey! Telerik Test Studio is at StarWest! We have prepared for you some nice surprises – and two awesome awards – Kindle and iPAD2. So if you’re there – stop by Telerik’s Booth #8-9 and have a chat with the Testing Crew! They’ll tell you the rules! Check out the amazing sky-blue detective t-shirts and the very funny purple dancing robots! Also, last week, with the second major Test Studio release for 2011, we launched some pretty nice new features, including performance testing capabilities, support for manual test type, and HTML 5 support. You have a chance to get a free...

by Antonia Bozhkova
May 27, 2021 1 min read Share
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Need Accessibility in Your ASP.NET AJAX Apps? You’re Already Covered

Here at Telerik accessibility support has always been important. We strive to ensure that when you are developing an application with our ASP.NET AJAX controls you can rest easy knowing that they provide compliance with some of the highest standards in the industry. Ease-of-mind and ease-of-implementation, does it get any better? :) Let’s take a look at just how we are making your applications more accessible. Accessibility Guidelines For a while now Telerik’s ASP.NET AJAX controls have been in compliance with the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0/2.0 (say that a few times fast!). These guidelines set standards for applications providing accessible content by...

by Carl Bergenhem
May 27, 2021 3 min read Share