I’m teaching a beginning Dreamweaver class at UNM Continuing Ed this week. In Continuing Ed classes, it’s common to have adults who want to learn something new in hopes of improving their job chances. In web education classes of any kind, it’s common to have someone who’s been working in print and wants to transition [...]
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 [...]
Themeefy looks great for instructors (and students who have to do a presentation). Read more about it at Digital Inspiration, where you can look at Amit’s sample about Steve Jobs. Here’s an example from the Themeefy site. It’s free. Sign up with a Twitter or Facebook login.
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. [...]
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
This weekend, I attended the Online News Association Conference in Boston. It was a great gathering of multimedia developers and those concerned with all things digital – quite a fantastic event. I had the opportunity to participate on a panel called “If I Were in Charge, I’d…” Proposals for the panel were solicited before the [...]
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Tuesday, September 6, 2011
The W3C issued a new editor’s draft of Media Accessibility User Requirements. The introductory paragraphs explain what it’s about. I’ve added emphasis. This document aggregates the requirements of an accessibility user that the W3C HTML5 Accessibility Task Force has collected with respect to audio and video on the Web. It first introduces a background on [...]
The latest on browser support for HTML5 forms. From wufoo. Avoiding Common HTML5 Mistakes from HTML5 Doctor. Reading is Easier on Safari with Lion – Here’s Why from Mac Tips talks about several new features in Lion. Use Dropbox to Test Your Website Locally from Digital Inspiration is sure a lot less expensive than Browser [...]
Great explanation of Document Outlines at HTML5 Doctor. Perfect resource link if you’re teaching an HTML5 class. Google is listening to the feedback on Google+. Google isn’t the only company listening to what users want. Sarah Kimmel is on her way to Austin to talk with Dell. If there’s something you want Dell to know, [...]
It’s easy peasy to create a table in Dreamweaver. It’s not so easy to create a table in Dreamweaver that sticks to the ideal of separation of content from presentation and uses CSS rather than HTML to determine presentation. If you want to build a table for your web page that does use best practice [...]
One of the classes I’ve been teaching at UNM Continuing Ed lately is Beginning Dreamweaver. The school uses Adobe Creative Suite 4 in the lab where I teach. The DOCTYPE options in DW 4 are either transitional or strict in HTML 4/XHTML 1.0. Outside of the UNM lab, the most recent version of DW on [...]
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