Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
A Useful Alt Text Decision Tree Added to HTML5 at the W3C. Then Dey Alaxander wrote Text Alternatives for Images: A Decision Tree at 4 syllables.
Here’s a podcast from The Web Ahead with a discussion with Jen Simmons about Responsive Images with Mat Marquis.
And finally, MinutePhysics is here to help you understand what Higgs Boson is.
Mobile Landing Page Optimization – 10 Best Practices for Success is from Search Engine Land and all 10 tips are excellent.
10 Trends for Mobile User Experience from White Space is also interesting with its list of what is the current practice in mobile.
Did you think you owned the right to your own words in your own tweets? Think again.
Jill Whalen published an outstanding explanation of what long-tail keywords are and how to discover them in High Rankings Advisor this week: Using Keyword Research to Find Long-Tail Keyword Phrases.
Meet the High School Girls Who Had to Take CS. Interesting comments about what they expected, and what computer science turned out to mean to them.
Why I Madly Love Dreamweaver Today. A programmer’s point of view.
Last week Microsoft announced a new tablet called Surface. Nobody got excited. In fact, some people made it into a joke. But, to Microsoft’s credit, nobody got mad either. The announcement didn’t offend anyone of any gender. Dell should be so clever.
The EU decided to launch a site and video to attract girls into STEM fields. Everybody got excited. Okay – everybody got incensed. Especially female scientists, who raised so much stink that the video was pulled. More stink here.
And finally, in the news, the Michigan Representative who got silenced for using the terrifying word VAGINA in the Michigan House decided to perform “The Vagina Monologues” at the state Capitol with the help of author Eve Ensler. Rep. Lisa Brown for the win.
Oh, and . . . vagina.
Thanks to this post at Meryl.net, I found these two excellent captioning resources from Bill Creswell: Caption Resources and How to Start Adding Captions/Subtitles to Online Videos.
Congratulations to Knowbility for being on the receiving end of a big grant from Readability.com. And congratulations to Readability for recognizing the importance of Knowbility to web accessibility.
How do you know when something counts as fair use? Should be of interest to educators.
Notes to Agencies Starting Their First Responsive Site is a good checklist to discuss with students learning responsive design.
A List Apart has a terrific post on the CSS3 paged media module by Nellie McKesson called Building Books with CSS3.
I know I harp on the topic of women in tech here all the time, but are you aware of the culture of gaming and the way women are treated in that world? Check these two articles: The All Too Familiar Harassment of Feminist Frequency and What the Gaming Community Can Do About It and The Thickest Skin: Backlash to the Feminist Frequency Kickstarter.
HTML5 Accessibility Chops: When to Use an ARIA Role. Sometimes adding an ARIA role does nothing.
Sometime in the wee hours of the night on June 5, much of the Internet switched over to Internet Protocol v6, a change 10 years in the making. The previous version v4 (there was no v5, oddly) is still out there in use. Not everyone has jumped on the v6 bandwagon. The move should increase the number of internet addresses from 4.3 billion to 340 trillion trillion trillion and was first implemented by big business: e.g.,Comcast, Time Warner, Cisco, AT&T.
It that sounds to you like a move to facilitate big business, you may be right. Here are some useful links to help you understand what happened and why.