I write a lot. I’m writing this blog post in the rich text editor that’s provided with WordPress, and I trust it will output nice clean HTML. This is good way of working, but often my writing involves much lengthier documents, and often I’m writing in collaboration with others. The tool of choice for these […]
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Accessible Dropdown Menus Revisited
Back in March 2012 I wrote a blog post titled Accessible Dropdown Menus summarizing my observations with various accessible dropdown menu models, including Suckerfish, Son of Suckerfish, Superfish, Dropper Dropdown, UDM4, Simply Accessible, YUI MenuNav Node Plugin, and the Menubar widget example developed by the Open Ajax Alliance. Of all these, I liked the Open […]
Given the death of Google Reader in July and the eminent death of iGoogle in November, I’ve been shopping for alternatives. I need a single service that will serve as my dashboard and web portal, providing me with news updates, RSS feeds, and convenient access to bookmarked websites all from a single location. It needs […]
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Spam and Literature
I’ve long been an enthusiast of collage in various media—visual art, literature, music. This Fall I hope to unveil my latest musical project, a grand musical mashup that I’ve been actively working on for over a year, but my interest in such things originated much earlier. Back in the 80’s I was into William S. […]
Browser support for HTML5 video is constantly evolving, including support for accessibility features. Consider this a snapshot of the current state of accessibility support as of June 14, 2013. It may change tomorrow. First, here’s the code one might use to add video to a web page, including captions, subtitles and text-based audio description: <video […]