Tips, web design book reviews, resources and observations for teaching and learning web development.
Webvisions 2006 will be in July in Portland, OR. “Exploring the Future of the Web: Join the giants of design, user experience and business strategy at the Oregon Convention Center from July 20 to 21, 2006 to uncover the trends and agents of change that will shatter your assumptions about the Web.”
The speaker list includes two women (Kelly Goto, Kit Seeborg) and 33 men, but who’s counting.
I signed up to work with a project using the course management system Moodle today. My initial impression is favorable, but I haven’t gotten into much yet. It works with Safari, always an indicator to me that the developers are meeting web standards. Getting signed up was easy, updating my profile was easy, and making an initial post in forums was easy. I’m anxious to see how it handles assignments and homework. More on Moodle as I progress through the project.
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Adobe – Dreamweaver TechNote : Dreamweaver 8 loses FTP login settings If you are using Dreamweaver 8 on Windows be sure to read this Adobe TechNote. If you have the IE 7 beta on your Windows machine read it this very minute before you do another thing today.
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AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? [JavaScript & DHTML Tutorials] gives a summary of the current situation with AJAX and screen readers, describes a set of tests conducted to check how screen readers work with JavaScript and the DOM and describes what’s being done about it all.
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SXSW’s 2006 Honor Roll was just published. It lists the panels that received ratings of 4/5 on a scale of 1 to 5. The panel I was on, Increasing Women’s Visiblity on the Web: Whose Butt Should We Be Kicking?, rated a perfect 5.
Here are several links of interest today. First is E-Learn Conference in Hawaii October 13-17, 2006. The E-Learn Conference is the International Forum for Researchers, Developers, and Practitioners to Learn about the Best Practices/Technology in Education, Government, Healthcare, and Business
Two articles about accessibility from Felix Miata are worth reading: Browser Defaults are Not Too Big and The (In)accessible Web.
Microsoft talks about what it is planning to do with the new Forester Research that shows that 57% of adults can benefit from accessible technology.
Dave Shea talks about the advent of IE 7 in Stop Hacking, or be Stopped. Once again, if you have CSS hacks and haven’t yet figured out how to use conditional comments, I urge you to take this step. This article explains why and more.
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I’m a fan of Project Seven products. Their newest is PVII Image Gallery Magic, a very nice, standards-based gallery that uses CSS and the DOM to do its magic. I am not affiliated with this company in any way, I just think their products are high quality resources for Dreamweaver users.