Lou Rosenfeld has posted a really interesting blog post on some of his experience regarding Enterprise IA and certain differences in the way culture, language and business models affect the …
W. Daniel Hillis view of the Knowledge Web (Aristotle)
Edge.org has published an interesting article on the 2000 prescient paper by W. Daniel Hillis titled, “Aristotle”, in which he proposes “The Knowledge Web”. The 2000 paper, covers a similar …
IBM developerWorks web blogs
Here is a listing of some of the active blogs within IBM’s Developer Works website. They include, Kurt Bittner – Software Development, Grady Booch – Software Architecture, Simon Johnston, Michael …
Peter Ottery and the CSS redesign of the SMH
Last night I had the opportunity of attending the Sydney June meet of the Web Standards Group (WSG), a local chapter of developers and designers pushing for web accessibility. The …
Web Essentials 04 – Web Standards conference
The Web Essentials 04 conference in Sydney from the 30th September-1 October will focus on the use and application of web standards, development and accessibility. Guest speakers and presenters include …
Researchers re-grow optic nerves
Researchers at the Harvard Medical School, have published a paper in the Journal of Neuroscience, that describes the regeneration of optic nerves. Although the research describes the enhancing and reproduction …
IAThink on colour blindness and usability
Heidi Adkisson from IA Think has posted an interesting blog entry on some of the usability concerns with colour blindness and the hyperlink.
Screen reader friendly websites
The Australian Royal Blind Society have collated a useful list of websites that are friendly and accessible to screen readers. These sites include audio books, games sites, media and news, …
The Web Standards Group
The Web Standards Group is a Sydney based collective which aims to provide web developers and designers a forum via a discussion list and meetings, to discuss issues and share …
Keyboard shortcuts for Firebird
Been using the Mozilla Firebird 0.61 browser for a few weeks now and let me tell ya it grows on you. Both in Window 2000 and OSX. Here is a …
The IBM Accessibility Centre
IBM’s Accessibility Centre website is a useful resource on various topics of accessible design and developer guidelines. The website contains valuable information on Laws, Standards, and Regulations aswell as events, …
Screen reader and low vision simulation
WebAim, a useful resource website on accessibility issues and topics for the Web, have a useful tool that simulates a screen reader, a device used by the blind to read/access …
Jeffrey Zeldman’s keynote from Seatle
Jeffrey Zeldman has uploaded his keynote lecture notes (Designing with Web Standards), from the Web Design World in Seatle, US last Month. His notes covers the important reasons for designing …
Electronic glove translates sign language to speech
Jose Hernandez-Rebollar, a researcher for George Washington University in the US has developed an electronic glove called the “AcceleGlove” that can translate the rapid hand movements used in sign language …
Television standards for subtitles in the UK
I was watching Catch me if you can on DVD over the weekend with subtitles on and I noticed that at certain parts of the movie (about half way) titles …