On November 19, 2009 Google announced that it was launching automatic captions in YouTube. The University of Washington recently joined the list of early testers of this feature, so I thought I’d offer a sneak peek of how it works. The typical YouTube video player has a button in the lower right corner that for […]
Each New Years Eve since 1982, I have found myself humming that defiant yet celebratory New Years anthem by Prince, "1999". This reminds me of something I have often puzzled about, but until now have never blogged about or even mentioned to anyone. From June 7, 1993 to May 13, 2000, Prince went by the […]
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My New, More Accessible Blogger Template
For those of you who have been reading my blog for a while, you may have noticed that I recently changed my template. This is a Blogger blog, and when I originally set up my Blogger account I was in a hurry to do so and simply selected one of the available templates. However, I’ve […]
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Musings on ARIA role="application"
The W3C Accessible Rich Internet Applications 1.0 specification (ARIA) is currently in "Last Call". The purpose of ARIA is to provide a means for web authors to explicitly identify roles, states, and properties of interactive user interface components on web pages, thereby making them accessible to users of assistive technologies (AT). ARIA introduces the role […]
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Contemplating Risk
I won’t bore you with clichés about the relationship between risk and living a full life, but I stumbled across these old photos recently and thought they could express this relationship much better than words. (Note: These images are described at the bottom of this post, but the description isn’t words, it’s pictures, rendered non-visually […]