Popcorn Taxi presents "The BMW Shorts and the Hacktivist

In Archive by Fredy Ore

On Wednesday October 10th – 7:30 pm, ‘Popcorn Taxi’ Sydney present THE BMW SHORTS & THE HACKTIVISTS, a collection of big budget short films made by some of the worlds greatest directors, promoting BMWs latest range of cars. The program is co-presented by the ‘dLux Tilt Festival’ and proudly sponsored by Apple Computer Australia and Sony Australia. ::: www.popcorntaxi.com.au

Morality rights added into the Australian Copyright Act

In Archive by Fredy Ore

An interesting article that looks at the morality rights in the Copyright Act.
http://it.mycareer.com.au/opinion/legit/2001/10/02

Update (2002)
Below is an excerpt on Moral Rights from the Copyright Agency in Australia.

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There are legal obligations to attribute (credit) creators, and not to treat their work in a derogatory way. Moral rights are rights provided to creators under copyright law in order to protect both their reputation and the integrity of their work.

In Australia, moral rights were introduced in December 2000 through the Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000. This legislation provides creators with three rights.

  1. the right of attribution of authorship;
  2. the right not to have authorship of their work falsely attributed; and
  3. the right of integrity of authorship.

This protects creators from their work being used in a derogatory way that may negatively impact on their character or reputation.

Moral rights last for the same time as copyright in a work, the term of which is usually the creator’s life plus 70 years.
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Update (2005)

Wikipedia – Moral rights added to Australian Copyright Legislation

The Copyright Amendment (Moral Rights) Act 2000 in Australia
– C2004A00752

Building Accessible Websites book by Joe Clark

In Archive by Fredy Ore

Here is Joe Clark’s new book, Building Accessible Websites, on Web Accessibility.

It is to be published by New Riders in October 2001
www.joeclark.org/book

Update (2002): Joe Clark has provided a summary of each Chapter.

Table of contents

00. The access manifesto
A declaration of what accessibility is and should be: “The true reason to design for accessibility is greed. Quite simply, I want it all, and so should you. Give us everything you’ve got. Give us everything there is to give”
01. How to read this book
Facts about the approach, limitations, and typography of the book
02. Why bother?
Why make Websites accessible? Well, why not? Common myths exploded, and active reasons to engage in Web accessibility provided
03. How do disabled people use computers?
The right (as opposed to “correct”) terms to use in discussing disabled people. Screen readers and other adaptive technology
04. What is media access?
Web accessibility is merely the latest form of media access to come down the pike. Learn your history
05. The structure of accessible pages
Web accessibility relies on standards. Learn the importance of valid structured HTML
06. The image problem
Reason in itself to buy this book: The fullest explanation of how to make online images accessible yet written, with dozens of special cases explained
07. Text and links
Text is the most accessible format there is, but some reasonable care must nonetheless be taken
08. Navigation
For a mobility-impaired person (and, to a lesser extent, for a blind person), moving around within Websites is tedious. Learn how to ease the tedium
09. Type and colour
Colourblindness explicated. In this chapter, what little you need to do to ensure readable onscreen type is laid out in black and white, as it were
10. Tables and frames
Tables prompt eye-gouging hissyfits among accessibility advocates and Web designers of all stripes, whether oldschool or avant-garde. Both sides are saddled with myths and both argue in large part from ideology. Let’s do a reality check, shall we?
11. Stylesheets
We are told that stylesheets hold tremendous untapped power in accessible Web design. Could it be almost completely untrue?
12. Forms and interaction
Getting around inside Web forms
13. Multimedia
Near and dear to my heart, a full discussion of captioning and audio description of multimedia
14. Certification and testing
You may be required to assert that your Website is accessible – and prove it. Here’s how
15. Future dreams
The current state of the art barely qualifies as an “art.” What do we need for Websites to be truly and elegantlyaccessible?