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Archive for the ‘Accessibility’ Category
Quick and Easy OSS
Posted in Accessibility on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What Type of Blog is This?
Posted in Accessibility, Blogs/RSS, Fun on November 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hangingtogether.org had an interesting post which included web services that can provide information about different blogs. These blog analysis tools are supposed to provide you with more insight into the blog and its author. So, I tried it. Here’s what I found out about this blog:
Gender Analyzer — “We have strong indicators that http://libtechtexas.wordpress.com/ is [...]
Swype
Posted in Accessibility, E-mail, Fun, Handhelds, Software on November 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
If you’ve ever tried to type using a cell phone, you’ve probably encountered the T9 system. It’s the predictive typing system. So, when you type a letter, you get a list of words you’ve used before that start with that letter. The more letters you type, the more likely your word will be in the [...]
Mobile Web Best Practices
Posted in Accessibility, Browsers, Handhelds, Standards, Web Design/HTML on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The World Wide Web Consortium has announced a recommendation that will help us create web pages for mobile devices — Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0.
It includes a list of 60 best practices, which are provided at the beginning of the document and discussed further into the document. A definite good read!
[from beSpacific]
PDF an International Standard
Posted in Accessibility, Standards on November 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
PDF is now an ISO standard — ISO 32000-1. The development now lies in the hands of an ISO committee, not solely in Adobe’s. This is the third PDF ISO standard. PDF/X, for the printing industry, and PDF/A, for long-term archiving, are already under the auspices of ISO.
[from ResourceShelf]
Are You Too Old to Drive? Soon, Your Car May Tell You
Posted in Accessibility, Research, Security, Trends on November 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s true! MIT’s AgeLab is working on just such a car. It will tell you whether you’re too sleepy, hungry, or just too old to drive. But don’t worry — it won’t be ready for at least another 20 years — just in time to catch the baby boomers!
Although I’m spinning this negatively just for [...]
Webmaster Tips from Google
Posted in Accessibility, Searching, Standards on November 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
To answer a question frequently asked of Google — how can webmasters raise their rank in a Google search — they’ve given us some pointers.
Ensure that all critical content is reachable
Ensure that content is readable
Ensure that content is available in reading order
Supplement all visual content
They also make the statement that and accessible web site [...]
Unicode 5.1
Posted in Accessibility, Digital Libraries, Standards on April 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A new version of Unicode is now available. Version 5.1 contains:
the enabling of ideographic variation sequences which are needed for Japanese, Chinese, and Korean.
changes to properties and behavioral specifications, which primarily deal with Polish, Portuguese, and Tamil and other languages.
1,624 newly encoded characters
[from Cafe con Leche]
XML Internationalization
Posted in Accessibility, Standards, XML on March 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The W3C has posted a document to help both developers and authors create XML documents that work across languages and cultures. Best Practices for XML Internationalization is divided into primarily two sections: best practices for those designing XML applications and those authoring XML content.
Best practices for authors include:
Specifying the language of content
Specifying text directionality
Overriding information [...]
Best Web Sites on Capitol Hill
Posted in Accessibility, Legal Issues, Standards, Texas, Web Design/HTML on March 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For the second year, the Congressional Management Foundation has reported on the web sites created by members of Congress and their staff. Called the 2007 Gold Mouse Report, the report itself is well written, with insights into what makes a good congressional website, e.g., easy to use and navigate, Section 508 compliance, information on how [...]
