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Ian Lloyd over at Latest Accessibility News on Accessify | One of the (Many) Reasons I Have Been Quiet, part 3 announced that he is writing a book for sitepoint that will be aimed at beginners. This expands the field of writing specifically for beginners by about 33% according to my informal count.
What is that count? There’s my own book, Integrated HTML and CSS: A Smarter, Faster Way to Learn, there’s the Head First book I reviewed here called Head First HTML with CSS and XHTML, and now Ian’s coming soon volume, Build Your First Website The Right Way Using HTML & CSS.
I know a lot of writers are very competitive about the success of their books vs. the success of other books on the same topic, but I am not afflicted with that competitive gene. I tend to look at it as a step in the right direction that more books are being released into the great cosmos that advocate the principles that I believe are the right ones for education and learning in this field. If it happens often enough, changes are bound to occur in the places where curriculum is determined, and that definitely needs to happen.
I probably lied before. I am as competitive as the next person. It would be wonderful to be rich and famous because of something I wrote. But that isn’t what it’s about for me. It isn’t about money or fame. It’s about changing an educational system that doesn’t serve students in the way it should. It’s about improving the quality of what is offered to web design students. Every new book that moves things in the right direction is a welcome addition to my world.
Here’s a good explanation for Video Captioning from Tom on the Web. His method uses CuePoints in Flash Professional 8 with the cue points stored in an XML document.
Mainstream Web Accessibility: A Worthy Pursuit | Accessites.org The mission of this new site: “We want to showcase and provide awards-recognition for certain websites – and the developers and designers who make them – which shatter the misconception that accessible web sites are boring and basic. It’s not so and we intend to prove it, or rather, we’ll ask others to furnish the evidence for us. Specifically, we’re looking for sites that meet or exceed our expectations.”
They already have some sites posted that meet their criteria, but it’s almost impossible to tell you anything about them because the color contrast on the page makes the text unreadable. I predict this will change fast!
Wise-Women: Tutorial: Learning Podcasting by Carolyn Wood is a thorough explanation of how to podcast, what you need to get going, where to put your podcasts, how to subscribe to podcasts, and much more.
Blogossary is a dictionary of blogging terms. If you are confused about a blog related word, you can find a definition there. If you know a blogging term that you don’t see on the site, you are invited to submit it for possible inclusion in the dictionary.
Thanks to Liz Henry, one of my co-panelists at the upcoming SXSW Interactive Conference for telling me about ozarque’s Journal. a linguistics blog by former San Diego State linguistics professor Suzette Haden Elgin. Liz brought ozarque’s Journal to my attention when I mentioned that I wanted to talk about Deborah Tannen’s ideas on framing as part of our panel discussion Increasing Women’s Visibility on the Web: Whose Butt Should We Be Kicking?
It looks like ozarque’s Journal is set to become one of my favorite reads!