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 [...]
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Elizabeth (Liz) Castro is a tech writer who has been influential in the growth of web design and the Internet since the 1990′s. Her website is elizabethcastro.com. Her blog is Pigs Gourds and Wikis. She’s a mentor of mine, and a source of information for literally millions of readers who want to know something about [...]
Friday, December 30, 2011
A Resolution for an Accessible New Year talks about the Fix the Web project and gives details and ideas about how you can participate in fixing the web. The Goldilocks Approach to Responsive Web Design takes a different approach to the concept. Sure to be discussed widely, so go read it. Understanding Apple is a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
[Note: This article was written for BlogHer and refers to that. It was originally posted on BlogHer.] This is the tale of how two women – one from an engineering background and one from a restaurant background – came together to create a new business that helps women in male-dominated professions advance. Katie Snapp and [...]
Monday, November 28, 2011
Nice article on Opera Dev by Chris Mills about Adaptive Design with media queries. Nested Figure Elements on Paciello Blog. The Sketchbook of Susan Kare: The Artist Who Gave Computing a Human Face. Did you know about Susan Kare? I’d never heard of her before. I certainly think a mention of her contribution to the [...]
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Have you read the long and extremely well-done post by Adria Richards called Arrington, CNN and Diversity? It speaks to issues of white male privilege from folks like Michael Arrington; it speaks to issues of diversity in tech startups—particularly people of color in tech startups. It speaks to the issue of black entrepreneurs pitching startups [...]
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