Barcode scanner apps are used in many aspects of modern life. We use them out shopping, to transfer data, to do research and more. With these apps the user can also create their own codes to hide their important data. These apps also scan data…
Category: Accessibility
There has been a great deal of hype of late about machine translation and other language technology What is often not noticed is that the hype usually originates from the owners or producers of these tools. The reality is a bit less exciting. Many translation…
Time to let go of Internet Explorer 6? It’s waaay past time.
If you’ve ever wondered how to resize an animated gif using Photoshop and not having the original graphic files for the gif … read how to do it.
The NextGen PC Design Competition chose their winners, and unfortunately neither of the products I was rooting for has won. In fact, of all the innovative ideas in the competition the one that won the prize money was for a PC that is like writing…
I’ve been a fan of MooTools over jQuery for a while, but jQuery just came out with something that makes it a bit more competitive – a set of widgets. If you head over to http://ui.jquery.com/ you can see the new demos online. Here’s a…
Recently I posted an article which talked about the reasons to avoid using javascript navigation. The article listed reasons, but not alternatives, so that’s what I’d like to spend some time talking about. Secondary Navigation I feel that the best alternative to javascript navigation is…
Over time many bad web design ideas have been dropped or lost favour, including unnecessary splash screens and unwieldy framesets, for the good of the web user. However, one web design bad habit that persists is the JavaScript Dynamic Navigation. This is bad news for…
So that’s the question I’m pondering today. With the advent of the new Parallels Desktop for Mac, will Mac users who’ve clung to their IE 5.5 ditch the legacy browser for the ability to run the newer versions of IE through Parallels? I’m really not…
With the advent of what appears to be a ‘media boom’ on the Internet, I think it’s time for a reminder about accessible media on the web. Where new ideas like Dovetail, Yahoo! Current, Google Current, Memocast, Videoegg, MSN Soapbox, AOL Video, and tons more..…