Thursday, January 26, 2012
Video for Everybody! “Video for Everybody is simply a chunk of HTML code that embeds a video into a website using the HTML5 <video> element, falling back to Flash automatically without the use of JavaScript or browser-sniffing. It therefore works in RSS readers (no JavaScript), on the iPhone / iPad (don’t support Flash) and on many browsers and platforms.” [...]
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The latest iteration of An Event Apart is nearly upon us, to be held in Atlanta next month with subsequent sessions upcoming in Seattle, Boston, Austin and Washington, DC later in the year. Widely recognized as the most important conference of the year for web site designers and developers, An Event Apart offers a series [...]
Saturday, December 31, 2011
Since I’m learning to play the ukulele and these two are the cutest things ever, I’m going to use this song to wish you a wonderful new year.
Tuesday, December 20, 2011
BlogHer announced the second annual BlogHerEntrepreneurs Conference, focused on business, entrepreneurism and technology, which will take place on March 22-23, 2012 in Santa Clara, CA. There are only 100 seats available for this conference, so register quickly. If you’re a woman who has a big idea that involves technology, the Internet or social media, we [...]
Wednesday, November 16, 2011
The top 25 books for web developers and designers from .net is a good list to check to see if you’re keeping up with the latest. I noticed that several of the 25 are from A Book Apart. That led me to tweet this: Is there some sort of brain implant that would directly feed [...]
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Wednesday, October 26, 2011
Right about now, all the sci fi geeks and horror geeks and tech geeks out there are scouring thrift shops for the perfect articles to make costumes for Halloween. If you’re still looking for the perfect idea for a costume for yourself for this year, I’m here to help. Take a look at some of [...]
BlogHer and many other organizations are lining up behind a campaign to stop bullying. It’s called Stop Bullying: Speak Up. You can join in at Facebook and take a pledge to help. You can also get a widget like this one that allows others to participate. There are a constant stream of blog posts by [...]
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 [...]
It’s Ada Lovelace Day! This day is for all of us to honor, mention, and share the names of the women in STEM that we admire. Who’s my choice for 2011? Emily Lewis! Emily is a web designer running her own business at Emily Lewis Design. She has a blog at A Blog Not Limited. [...]
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 [...]
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