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12 March 2007
South by Southwest
SXSW (interactive festival running alongside a music and films festival in Austin, Texas) is on starting from this weekend. One day I’ll make it over there!
http://2007.sxsw.com/interactive/
Accessibility Court cases
A summary of the two Accessibility cases going through the courts in America at the moment. Things aren’t looking so great for Target, according to the author – and Oracle’s PeopleSoft is coming under fire for being inaccessible.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/
Socitm’s Better Connected 2007 report is published
544 local council websites were scrutinised by a team of reviewers.
http://www.socitm.gov.uk/
Local authority website league table 'should be scrapped'
This review by Socitm drew some criticism:
Local authority web managers have today called for an official annual league table of their sites' accessibility to be scrapped or drastically reworked, after branding the latest findings "misleading and fundamentally flawed".
http://www.24dash.com/
RNIB responds to criticism about the Socitm report
Donna blogs about the results.
http://www.rnib.org.uk/
Document conversion boosts accessibility
RiverDocs Converter changes documents on web sites into more accessible HTML versions. Bold claims. Our very own Jon has reviewed the tool, I look forward to seeing the results.
http://www.itweek.co.uk/
Interesting articles from the week:
Usability Testing. Oh, The Things You Can Learn
Introducing swfIR
Like SIFR, only for images instead of text..
http://www.mikeindustries.com/
We’re still looking for those women
An interesting look into why there aren’t more women talking at conferences
http://www.rachelandrew.co.uk/
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