HTML5 introduces all sorts of exciting possibilities with timed text that can be synchronized with media. The new <track> element, used in conjunction with <audio> and <video>, makes it possible to add captions, subtitles, descriptions, chapters, and metadata to your media. As a musician I’m particularly interested in the possibilities of synchronizing text with audio, […]
Some software bugs are more amusing than others. For some reason I find this one to be amusing, perhaps because I discovered it on a Friday afternoon. My goal was to provide some context for a list of numeric links that appear at the bottom of a pager feature on a web page, for example […]
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Use font-size: 100% !important
First, I should disclose my bias: I just turned 51, no longer have 20/20 vision, and prefer text that is readable rather than text that makes me squint. Don’t make users squint Font size in CSS can be specified in any of several size units, the most common of which are pixels (px), em, or […]
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Crashing at the College Inn, Lost In Time
In 1992, DO-IT was founded with funding from the National Science Foundation, and every year since then has hosted a Summer Study program in which high school students with disabilities spend two weeks on the UW campus staying in dorms, learning about college life, participating in workshops and going on field trips that expose them […]
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Notes from AHEAD 2014
I’m honored to be the closing plenary speaker at AHEAD 2014, the annual conference of the Association on Higher Education and Disability. Thinking back to a previous AHEAD conference, I recall a plenary speaker who proudly announced that he didn’t have any slides; he would just be talking. This proclamation was met with applause; even […]