Category: UsefulLinks

Jared Smith of WebAIM has written a comprehensive article on Creating Accessible Macromedia Flash Content.

P.O.V. – Freedom Machines . The Promise of the Web | PBS is an interview with Judy Brewer of the W3C’s Web Accessiblity Initiative. It is related to a PBS program scheduled for this week’s POV program: POV: Freedom Machines. Other very useful related articles are What is Assistive Technology? and the photo gallery of examples showing The Principles of Universal Design.

Stopdesign | Throwing Tables Out the Window This article explains how many terabytes per year Microsoft would save if they redid their web site using current standards. If you were still searching for a business case to explain why your company should use a standards-based design, this ought to clinch it.

Webmonkey: The Web Developer’s Resource has made a comeback. They have a large set of resources, although I don’t know if it is as extensive as it was before. A new idea that I find particularly delightful is Webmonkey for Kids with lessons and tools to help kids learn to build web sites.

Here’s one for Mac called Shrook.

For Windows you can use Feed Demon.

I’ve been picking up all sorts of resources for sites that offer various methods for keeping spammers from picking up your email address. I don’t know how well these work, but here are a few:
· Master Spam Bot Buster a CGI script
· Advanced Email Link Generator
· Ask Vicki ezine

Dreamweaver users may find Dreamweaver extensions on the Macromedia site that provide some encoding of email addresses.

This stock photo site has nice photos and they are sometimes free. When you view a photo at high resolution, you see the copyright and use information for each photo.