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Putting Our Hot Heads Together
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:39:45 GMT

The web is a conversation, but not always a productive one. Web discussions too often degenerate into whines, jabs, sour grapes, and one-upmanship. How can we transform discussion forums and comment sections from shooting ranges into arenas of collaboration?

 

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Deafness and the User Experience
Fri, 08 Aug 2008 04:44:28 GMT

Because of limited awareness around Deafness and accessibility in the web community, it seems plausible to many of us that good captioning will fix it all. It won’t. Before we can enhance the user experience for all deaf people, we must understand that the needs of deaf, hard of hearing, and big-D Deaf users are often very different.

 

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accessibility web - Google News

Independent Living Aids LLC Achieves Gold Certification from NFB ... - PR Web (press release)
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:10:11 GMT

Independent Living Aids LLC Achieves Gold Certification from NFB ... PR Web (press release), WA - 20 hours ago ... level status for excellence in nonvisual web accessibility, a certification bestowed upon the company by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB). ...

Microsoft and Novell Expand Successful Interoperability Relationship - FOXBusiness
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:59:37 GMT

Microsoft and Novell Expand Successful Interoperability Relationship FOXBusiness - 6 hours ago Web links, telephone numbers and titles were correct at the time of publication, but may since have changed. For additional assistance, journalists and ...

imagination.gs, imagination.gs - NewDesignWorld (press release)
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 06:47:27 GMT

imagination.gs, imagination.gs NewDesignWorld (press release), UK - 5 hours ago The latest standards and proposals aim at leading to the various browsers' ability to deliver a wide variety of media and accessibility options to the ...

CPJ concerned online curbs still restrict Olympic journalists - CPJ Press Freedom Online
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:08:58 GMT

CPJ concerned online curbs still restrict Olympic journalists CPJ Press Freedom Online, NY - 14 hours ago Although it is not clear how long the greater accessibility will last, city residents can now read an unusual number of overseas-hosted Chinese language ...

Touching the world through mobile internet faxing - Corsavoo.com
Wed, 20 Aug 2008 10:09:39 GMT

Touching the world through mobile internet faxing Corsavoo.com, France - 2 hours ago The accessibility of prepaid services where subscribers are not bound to long term arrangements have boosted the sale of cellular phones. ...

Google Apps admins jittery about Gmail, hopeful about future - Macworld
Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:12:27 GMT

Google Apps admins jittery about Gmail, hopeful about future Macworld, CA - Aug 18, 2008 And the mobile accessibility is a huge improvement over our old e-mail service." Although Monday's outage stung Kwiry on an important day, and the startup ...

What's new with Google Analytics and Website Optimizer? - Search Engine Roundtable
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:57:05 GMT

What's new with Google Analytics and Website Optimizer? Search Engine Roundtable - 13 hours ago Google continues to innovate around bringing power, flexibility, and accessibility to web analytics and web content testing. Join us for the latest news ...

Barack Obama's Campaign Web Site Outpaces John McCain's by 2-1 in ... - Beet.TV
Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:56:19 GMT

Barack Obama's Campaign Web Site Outpaces John McCain's by 2-1 in ... Beet.TV, NY - Aug 16, 2008 TV I think a big factor in the the longer stays on the Obama site is the popularity and accessibility of campaign videos. Videos are prominently placed on ...

Elsevier announces 10 semi-finalists for the Elsevier Grand Challenge - EurekAlert (press release)
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 15:18:21 GMT

Elsevier announces 10 semi-finalists for the Elsevier Grand Challenge EurekAlert (press release), DC - 21 hours ago ... biological journal articles more thoroughly and effectively, providing better accessibility to the underlying data contained within research papers. ...

Expensive .gov website is expensive - Open Democracy
Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:32:32 GMT

Open Democracy

Expensive .gov website is expensive Open Democracy, UK - 23 hours ago So the site doesn't match .gov standards for accessibility, but then those standards are not entirely up to date with current web standards, ...