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experimenting with django-uni-form brings a valid point. In order to bid on any IT projects with the U.S. Government the interface must be Section 508 Compliant

django’s native form render method is to put out forms as tables. uni-form allows you to use template tags to have a real control of the divs and layout of your forms which is great for designing for people with disabilities and enhancing the overall user experience.

here’s a great slideshare i ran into on the topic

Been spending a lot of time with SASS and HAML. Awesome templating frameworks. I started by following @chrisepstein the powerhouse developer behind the compass-css project. After getting accustomed to Sass it only makes sense to use HAML for compliant xHTML.

The most significant characteristic with haml and sass versus html and css is nested hierarchy of its elements. This takes a little while to get used to, since we’ve never written in white-space aware code (like python), yet is very powerful in eliminating un-necessary markup, following DRY conventions. Secondly, sass mixins, imports and patterns within compass-css framework make HTML5/xHTML design a sinch – without ever using photoshop.

We are excited to offer this to clients, saving precious development time, dollars, and energy.

This slideshare really helped me out a lot and I’m posting it for my future reference and for anyone else into learning Sass and Haml.