Just listen to your feeds
ReadSpeaker PodCaster is an On-Line service that makes news feeds automatically accessible to more people in a high-quality and cost-effective way.
There are thousands of companies, blogs, government bodies and other organisations trying to make their news and content accessible as a text-based RSS feed. Podcasting and “Pod radio” are technologies where the RSS feed is enriched with a link (called an enclosure) to an mp3 file. This is widely used by radio stations, national and international commercial and non-commercial broadcasting companies, on line news papers, and so on.
Inside Your Users’ Minds: The Cultural Probe
Article by Ruth Stalker-Firth, The Cultural Probe on the List, who has been designing and implementing software for over 12 years.
Better Connected not connecting
Socitm’s Better Connected 2007 report is now published. Only two sites pass WCAG level AA from a list of 468. At present, I designed and helped implement 16 of these and I am committed to standards and accessibility.
Better Connected is failing to accomplish anything other than paint a gloomy picture of play and upset Local Authority rulers and those of us really making an effort. When does it get positive? Dan Champion is in a similar position to me and the Web Access Blog makes him an example and issues a kind of apology. 466 failures to comply is frankly depressing. But then, it isn’t accurate is it, which is frankly useless.
Time to cancel WCAG 2
A letter to Tim Berners-Lee from Joe Clark, possibly what we’re all many of us are thinking.