How to Make Forms more Usable with HTML5 is a good tutorial from Steven Bradley. The new WeTopia game on Facebook is described by TechCrunch. This game is a perfect example of what Jane McGonigal and other thinkers say about using game theory to create social good. NC State U evaluates the accessibility of Moodle [...]
Tuesday, November 22, 2011
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Monday, November 21, 2011
Here’s a well-developed resource for ARIA information from MDN. Mobile Apps headed for the dustbin of history at DevBeat is must reading for anyone interested in where the Internet is going.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Before and After Demonstration at the W3C site shows a site before and after WCAG 2.0 principles were applied to it. It’s all annotated so you can see what was done to make the site accessible. Great tool for educators. Speaking of the W3C, there is now a new community group forming – open to [...]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
CSS, HTML, ARIA, browsers, assistive technology and interoperability Organizing Mobile. I don’t often link to A List Apart, because I assume everyone is already reading it without my encouragement. But just in case you aren’t, check out this post by Luke Wroblewski. A group of women app developers are online at momswithapps.com. They share all [...]
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Cameron Moll made a set of whiteboard magnets of HTML5 tags for his own family. He’s released the Illustrator file for you to do the same. Great idea for people teaching HTML5. HTML5 Whiteboard Magnets. JAWS, IE and Headings in HTML5. Must reading for accessibility information about how JAWS interprets heading structure, particularly in IE. [...]
Saturday, October 8, 2011
The slide deck, which is mostly a list of resources, can be found on Slideshare. I prepared some info for my part of the panel, which I put at vdebolt.com/swconf. This was just a small part of what we discussed, but since I was going to talk about alt text, I thought I needed some [...]
Wednesday, October 5, 2011
I’ve been a bit distracted this week, getting organized to present a panel at the Southwest Conference on Disability. This is an ongoing conference that had never focused on web accessibility until last year when Sharron Rush from Knowbility, Inc. gave a keynote. She realized the folks there needed to add more about web accessibility [...]
Friday, September 30, 2011
Why Facebook’s New Open Graph Makes us all part of the Web Underclass by Adrian Short is a powerful opinion piece and well worth reading. The Semantic Social Web talks about how Facebook’s Open Graph is going to change things in a big way – the semantic web is involved. Content Prototyping in Responsive Web [...]
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Mary at Geek Feminism Blog transcribed the video, if you’d like to see a transcript. BlogHer has had a code of conduct for online comments from day one with moderation for those who don’t keep the conversation civil. It works. Here’s more about that from BlogHer co-founder Elisa Camahort Page.
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