The Future will be Captioned at the YouTube blog explains their new auto-captioning function, which works only for English videos at this point.
I saw a presentation from the social media team at Central New Mexico Community College last week. They talked about how they interact with the college’s 25,000 students on Facebook. The rule they [...]
Saturday, February 13, 2010
I’ve never had a problem selecting the Female option on a form asking me whether I’m male or female. Never a pause for thought, never an unsure moment. Nothing in my long life ever prompted me to hesitate over the choice between male or female.
An easy choice is probably the case for most people.
But it’s [...]
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Common Accessibility Mistakes at Visual Twenty-Eight is a good checklist of things to make sure you aren’t doing.
WAVE Dreamweaver Extension is just out from WebAIM. It’s in beta, and there are some limitations at the moment. Now you can get a WAVE report on your page right in Dreamweaver. Super!
Gartner forecast
The road to 2013: [...]
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
ATMac tells about Accessing the iPad: Mouthsticks and Styluses with some tips for how a user with limited mobility can work the device. It’s useful to also read ATMac’s post Accessibility and the iPad: First Impressions.
In the category of “stuff I didn’t know you could do but it sounds really great and I want to [...]
product
A review by Web Teacher of Web Design for Developers: A Programmer’s Guide to Design Tools and Techniques (Pragmatic Programmers)
(rating: 3 stars)
Web Design for Developers: A Programmers Guide to Design Tools and Techniques by Brian P. Hogan, is, as the title suggests, aimed at developers rather than at designers. In just over 300 pages, Hogan [...]
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Transcripts on the Web: Getting people to your podcasts and videos at uiAccess provides valuable resources for creating transcripts of audio and video.
My (current) opinions on HTML5 from Dori Smith is a reflection on the writhing mass of eels known as HTML5 and what has happened in that arena in the last few days. Dori [...]
Thursday, January 14, 2010
In the old days, many of us learned to make web pages by first thinking about the “look” and what images, fonts, color schemes, and graphic design elements we would use to achieve it. We launched Photoshop or Fireworks and played with the look until we knew precisely (down to the pixel) what the page [...]
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