Tag Archives: accessibility

Scripting Enabled Day 2

Day two of the event was a “hack day” style event, where lots of geeks gathered with the speakers to try and build something useful. There were lots of mini-projects on the go. I did a bit of hacking with … Continue reading

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Scripting Enabled Day 1

I attended the excellent Scripting Enabled conference and developer day recently held in London. It was extremely enlightening about various aspects of the web and how users with varied access difficulties are affected by the decisions us developers make every … Continue reading

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@media session 10

WAI-ARIA – It’s Easy Steve Faulkner Web Accessibility Initative – Accessible Rich Internet Applications It’s a W3C spec, close to becoming a recommendatio, aims to make sense out of NOISE, out of silence. Wherever possible, use the native tags to … Continue reading

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Semantic Camp Day 1

There have been general BarCamps aplenty, but this one, arranged by Semantic evangelist Tom Morris, was geared specifically towards the Semantic (and semantic) Web. It had a slightly different feel to it, in that we didn’t stay overnight. But it … Continue reading

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Playing Catchup

I seem to have got out of the blogging habit, so I’m hoping to catch up on a few posts now. I’ll tweak the dates so they’re relevent to the events roughly as they happened (chronology? what’s that?!) The first … Continue reading

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