Archive for August, 2004

cafedave.net linked to this interesting post, Three Things I Learned About Screen Reader Users on http://unraveled.com.

You should hop over there and read the whole thing, but here are my notes:

Make sure [access keys] don’t conflict with browser or screen reader shortcuts. Thankfully, the good folks at Web Accessibility Testing and Services have already started looking at this. Here’s their article on the topic.

Everyone…used JAWS, which doesn’t read display:none; content. Thankfully, the good folks at the CSS Discuss Wiki have researched the issue and designed an improved method that works in 11 major browsers.

(Because of forms mode in JAWS), use the fieldset and legend elements as suggested by Derek Featherstone’s comment.

Internetnews.com reports, and Slashdot covers Slashdot | MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate

Ahh yes, another browser to track, learn and cater to.

The top comment on /. right now is about right

MSIE 7 May Beat Longhorn Out The Gate… But I use Mozilla and the bell rang a long time ago.

Yahoo! News - New ‘Bushism’ Born at Bill Signing

President Bush offered up a new entry for his catalog of “Bushisms” on Thursday, declaring that his administration will “never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people.“

I never thought I’d hear him fess up. :)

Molly published another artice (about a month ago) looking at 7 common mistakes. 6fa23c9be6af4587b53e75087e7ee97f

While I see all of them way too often, number 3 and 4 have been particularily evident lately.

Well done Molly, as always.

Testing Meme Propagation In Blogspace: Add Your Blog!

This posting is a community experiment that tests how a meme, represented by this blog posting, spreads across blogspace, physical space and time. It will help to show how ideas travel across blogs in space and time and how blogs are connected. It may also help to show which blogs (and aggregation sites) are most influential in the propagation of memes. The dataset from this experiment will be public, and can be located via Google (or Technorati) by doing a search for the GUID for this meme (below).

The original posting for this experiment is located at: Minding the Planet (Permalink: http://novaspivack.typepad.com/novaspivacksweblog/2004/08/asonarping_of.html) — results and commentary will appear there in the future.

Please join the test by adding your blog (see instructions, below) and inviting your friends to participate — the more the better. The data from this test will be public and open; others may use it to visualize and study the connectedness of blogspace and the propagation of memes across blogs.

The GUID for this experiment is: as098398298250swg9e98929872525389t9987898tq98wteqtgaq62010920352598gawst (this GUID enables anyone to easily search Google or other search engines for all blogs that participate in this experiment, once they have indexed the sites that participate). Anyone is free to analyze the data of this experiment. Please publicize your analysis of the data, and/or any comments by adding comments onto the original post (see URL above). (Note: it would be interesting to see a geographic map or a temporal animation, as well as a social network map of the propagation of this meme.)

INSTRUCTIONS

To add your blog to this experiment, copy this entire posting to your blog, and then answer the questions below, substituting your own information, below, where appropriate. Other than answering the questions below, please do not alter the information, layout or format of this post in order to preserve the integrity of the data in this experiment (this will make it easier for searchers and automated bots to find and analyze the results later).

REQUIRED FIELDS (Note: Replace the answers below with your own answers)

(1) I found this experiment at URL: http://www.blogdex.net

(2) I found it via “Newsreader Software” or “Browsing the Web” or “Searching the Web” or “An E-Mail Message”: Browsing the Web

(3) I posted this experiment at URL: http://natek.typepad.com

(4) I posted this on date (day/month/year): 03/08/2004

(5) I posted this at time (24 hour time): 14:43:00

(6) My posting location is (city, state, country): San Francisco, California, USA

OPTIONAL SURVEY FIELDS (Replace the answers below with your own answers):

(7) My blog is hosted by: Typepad

(8) My age is: 28

(9) My gender is: Male

(10) My occupation is: Web Designer, Web Developer

(11) I use the following RSS/Atom reader software: FeedDemon, Bloglines

(12) I use the following software to post to my blog: Typepad, Zempt

(13) I have been blogging since (day, month, year): 01/10/03

(14) My web browser is: Firefox

(15) My operating system is: Windows XP