On 11 December W3C announced “a new standard that will help Web designers and developers create sites that better meet the needs of users with disabilities and older users. Drawing on extensive experience and community feedback, the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 improve upon W3C’s groundbreaking initial standard for accessible Web content. This new […]
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My web design conference organisers of choice, Web Directions, have launched their annual State of the Web survey of practicing web designers and developers, which aims to capture how people are developing for the web right now. Say Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp: It would be great if you could take a few minutes to
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Web-blast is a huge end-of-year party for Sydney’s web community – bringing together web designers, web project managers, interface designers, information architects and other web professionals. Celebrate the end of the year in style on Friday 5th December, 2008. Time: 6pm onwards Where: Bar Broadway Corner of Regent Street and Broadway, Sydney opposite UTS Tower
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Working with a range of interesting clients brings its own rewards. One of them is reading Anne Summers’ body of work, which now includes On Luck, a book in the Little Books on Big Themes series from Melbourne University Press in which prominent Australians address a topic in about 10,000 words, published in pocket-sized hardback:
Phew! Another Web Directions conference over and once again my brain feels stuffed to the gills (Do brains have gills? They ought to). This year I’m going to try to separate some threads of discussion and points of interest by posting about them separately, but I want to also give a bit of an overview.
Three sessions into Web Directions South for this year, and it’s shaping up as another winner. Lynne D. Johnson’s opening keynote was a cracker. A very engaging speaker, Lynne addressed the issue of whether, as a result of emerging web technologies, print as an information medium is dying or dead. Personally, I think reports of
Another project went live today, this one for Humane Education in Australia. The site has a very narrow focus: a symposium held in Brisbane in October 2007 that drew together the major players in animal rights to talk about how to embed humane education principles in the Australian education system. I actually built a site
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I’ve just had a look at Google‘s new Chrome browser and there is quite a lot to like: it’s slick, unfussy, fast-loading, and it mostly displays sites as I would expect it to. I’m sympathetic to the exercise, and I like the idea of a browser that integrates even more closely the various Google apps
I had to chuckle at the caption accompanying this photo for the Sydney Morning Herald’s story today on Google’s tenth anniversary. “Kate Vale and an engineer, Lars Rasmussen, at Google’s office in Darling Park.” Being a Lead Engineer for Google Maps clearly didn’t impress the journos too much. They probably wondered how a lowly engineer
Lingo is the new web presence I have designed for the Languages Action Alliance, a loose coalition of parents, academics, teachers and community members who want to see improvement in the way Australia provides languages education, especially for young children. It’s been an interesting project for several reasons. One of the main ones for me