Tag: accessibility
Accessibility may affect feasibility of Sharepoint intranet
Microsoft’s Office Sharepoint Server 2007 packs some cosmetic improvements to accessibility, but considerable development will be needed to resolve out-of-the-box problems.
Accessibility row over Better Connected 2007
A very public row broke out recently over a report concerning the results of a survey published by Socitm entitled Better Connected 2007, which surveyed the level of accessibility of 544 local authority websites.
The brouhaha centred upon the methods employed by Socitm to generate metrics amounting to a thumbs up or down.
The ink on the …
Flash is 10
Flash is ten years old, as the BBC reports, and for any Internet technology still around after a decade that’s a considerable achievement.
When I started out in web design, it was almost the only medium I worked in, reflecting the tastes of the time. That was before the Flash backlash, led by the arch-headline-grabber himself …
21st century job
Remember when a job was something to be proud of? When a job was a job for life?
Before you complain and click “Back” dear reader, let me assure you that this is not an article about the long-term effects of Thatcherism.
No Sir/Madam, this is an article about breaking free from the strictures of bad jobs …
Accessibility and web applications
What AJAX isn’t, in this context
Over the last couple of years, we’ve seen a significant leap forward in computing technologies and on one side of the coin, for the first time the Internet looks capable of delivering on the promise it showed a decade ago.
The flipside is that, during this time, the detritus of the …
Languages and the public sector
I was asked earlier whether public bodies had a legal duty to publish content in foreign languages.
Consult a specialist in Public or Administrative Law for a better opinion, but as far as I’m aware, apart from Welsh authorities whose requirement is statutory, public bodies govern communications policies by way of a publication scheme under the …
WCAG 2.0: clear as mud?
Joe Clark reports that WCAG 2.0, the product of five years’ hard labour by the WAI is a poor effort.
The new raft of guidelines, set to become a standard shortly, closes none of the loopholes afforded by its predecessors whilst maintaining the infuriating trend of being unintelligible to most of its audience.
Whilst much of the …
Playing CMS catch-up
If you’ve spent time designing and building usable, accessible web pages to hand over to developers, you probably have to resist the urge to stand over them while they’re at work.
Assuming you pick up on every little issue, you’re justifiably proud by the time release comes along.
Then, like a house of cards, your delicate, pristine …
About time for accessibility
At last, a bit of consistency on site accessibility could be coming our way, reports the BBC today.
The British Standards Institute has released guidelines in the form of a Publicly Available Specification (PAS) in a valiant attempt to clear up the grand fog that is accessibility for websites.
Details are minimal without shelling out of course, …
Graphic Designers are not Web Designers
This item is a follow-on really from a statement I made in my previous article about User Experience 2005: how we are web designers rather than artists.
J recently pointed out to me a website she’s been looking at called Heavy Backpack. It’s billed by its makers as a “Creative Catalogue” – in other words a …
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The World’s Fastest Indian
Director: Roger Donaldson New Zealand / United States, 2005 The “Indian” is a vintage motorcycle modified by a vintage eccentric, New Zealander Bert Munro. His dream is to break a land speed record on …
- Originally published: 30 Nov 2006 in Film
SIaS! at the Southwark Rooms
J, J’s sister and fella and I all went down last Saturday to The Southwark Rooms to see the 6 Feet Underground DJs at their second Suck It and See! night. It was …
- Originally published: 21 Sep 2005 in Concerts
Mean Streets
Director: Martin Scorsese United States, 1973 It’s only his third feature film, yet Mean Streets is a surprisingly mature work from Scorsese. The machine gun dialogue, the inquisitive camera, the guilt and redemption themes: …
- Originally published: 30 Aug 2006 in Film
Enough already!
What did you expect? You pluck a porcine, no-hope loser out of some dump in Bermondsey. You take her out of her dental nurse job, you shove her into the dentist’s chair …
- Originally published: 21 Jan 2007 in Editorial
Welcome home, Scofield
“It’s just a lump of metal” says the guy from the body shop that just fixed up our car, Scofield. “People I’ve delivered to,” he adds after a pause for effect, “they get …
- Originally published: 30 Aug 2006 in Editorial
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Hello you. I'm Mike Padgett and I work in the technology sector as an Information Designer.
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I'm based in Brussels, Belgium. My current favourite Belgian beer is St Feuillien Brune.