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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]
Color Contrast Analysis
We always check web designs for accessible components before launching them, and here’s a new tool that can help you do the same. Its called the Contrast Analyser, from the Paciello Group, and in their own words: It is primarily a tool for checking foreground & background colour combinations to determine if they provide good colour visibility. It also contains functionality to create simulations of certain visual conditions such as colour blindness. Thanks to Sean Brown (again!) for this great post idea! [read more]
Create, Edit and Share your sitemaps online
WriteMaps is a handy tool for collaborative site mapping, I might try this on my next web project. Your teammates can log in and edit notes on the pages, or create additional pages to your tree structure. Oh yeah, its FREE…I’m such a sucker for that. Thanks to Sean Brown of IS&T’s DCAD team for this post idea! [read more]
