Thursday, February 2, 2012
WCAG Next from WebAIM offers ideas that Jared Smith explained, “we have identified areas of the guidelines that could be improved or clarified.” Jared should know, he’s been helping people comply with WCAG since day one. The plain numbers about women in tech – the VCs is from Pleasure and Pain. Take a look at [...]
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Two trends converged during 2011. One from the world of Internet connected devices and the other from web site design world. Statistics show that more people are connected to the Internet through some sort of mobile device than through a desktop or laptop computer. Web designers are scrambling to make sure that web pages are [...]
Friday, December 23, 2011
Top Ten Tests for Alternatives on Mobiles. “The tests below are just a subset of mobile accessibility guidelines that should be followed and focuses purely on alternatives for screen reader users.” HTML 5 and CSS3 Advent. A web dev’s advent calendar. Mobile HTML5. Charts for devices and what they support.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
Are video games good for girls? The things she points out probably also apply to boys, but this is an interesting report. I’m jealous of WordPress 2.0 for Android. I don’t blog from my iPhone, but I do use the WordPress app for iOS to check comments when I’m away from my computer. Look at [...]
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.
Friday, November 11, 2011
Responsible Responsive Images brings out some points worth pondering. WordPress has added image gallery support. Here’s how to make it work. Can’t wait to find a reason to try it out.
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Adobe announced yesterday that it will stop developing the Flash Player for mobile devices. They will continue to support the Flash Player on desktop devices. Their statement said, Our future work with Flash on mobile devices will be focused on enabling Flash developers to package native apps with Adobe AIR for all the major app [...]
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 [...]
Thursday, October 6, 2011
I was reading Most Don’t Password Protect Their Smartphones – Here’s Why You Should at ReadWriteWeb. Sure, protect your privacy, ensure you security. I, however, have a point of view on the password entry to smartphones that is more nuanced. When you’re trotting around the globe in your 20s and 30s with you mobile phone in [...]
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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