Gosh, it’s been aeons since I updated this blog. Today I dusted, swept, and mopped it. It now has a new look, partly because I was tired of the old, but also because I wanted to be more consistent with my technology blog, and with my home page. In my previous post, I mentioned that […]
I’m working today on an update to our Web Design and Development I high school course curriculum. One of the lessons asks students to review three versions of the HTML specification (HTML 1.2, HTML 4.01, and HTML5) and discuss their impressions of the specs and how they’ve evolved over time. If you create web pages […]
In May 2010 I gave some serious thought to moving this blog to WordPress, but doing so wasn’t easy and I stopped short. Now, over fifteen months later, I’ve finally made the move, inspired in part by my learning that some users were unable to post comments. In looking into this problem, I discovered a […]
Adding alternate text to images in electronic documents is simple. In most authoring software you simply right click on an image, select an option such as "Format Picture" or something equally intuitive, and locate a form field where you are prompted to enter alt text. Unfortunately it’s a bit more complicated than that in Microsoft […]
This week I’m at the AHEAD conference, and Sean Keegan, Jayme Johnson, Ken Petri and I have teamed up for four presentations on video accessibility, including an all-day pre-conference session. I also gave a national webinar on Tuesday, live from my hotel room, on this same topic. Several people at the conference (directors and staff […]