Archive for 2008

Higher Education Web Symposium at U Penn

U Penn is hosting a conference focused on the unique challenges of web design and development in academia. The first and only web design conference for IT Professionals working in Higher Education. Join us and meet world renowned experts in the fields of usability, user centered design, CSS, AJAX and many others. Designers, Developers, and Project Managers will all be able to benefit from the content presented over the course of two days. July 15-16, 2008 University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA  [read more]

Drupal “Code Sprint” at MIT this Friday

The Drupal Association is hosting an all day code and documentation sprint at MIT on Friday March 7. There will be a Drupal booth in Stata on Friday and Drupal core developers’ available to talk to. This sounds like fun, all you Drupal junkies should come! A code sprint is a gathering of a bunch of programmers to complete a short, rapid development project. It allows developers from different countries and companies to work together and learn from each other. Most importantly, it’s a fun event where we can make some impressive advances for Drupal. We’re all meeting in a big room,... [read more]

AJAX accessibility for websites

Webcredible has an article in their latest newsletter on AJAX accessibility for websites. AJAX and JavaScript are usually used to update page content. When this happens screen readers respond in a variety of different ways, depending on both the screen reader and the browser: Screen readers aren’t aware of the changes so will read out the unmodified version of the page. This means screen reader users don’t get the updated content of the page. Screen readers are aware of the changes but will only read the modified content when they naturally reach it. This is fine unless the modified... [read more]