Archives for March, 2010
Indrani Mehdi is worthy of an Ada Lovelace Day tribute. On March 8th, at EmTech India 2010, the Emerging Technologies Conference recently held in Bengaluru, India, she was honored as a “technological trendsetter”. March 8th is, incidentally, International Women’s Day, and Medhi was the only woman to be honored with inclusion in [...]
We present to you a menu of tidbits collected in recent days that are too short for blog posts and sometimes too long for a tweet (when we want to add clarifying comments). Headings provide a light grouping to help you skim the offerings. Bon appétit! Happy Birthday, Twitter Twitter turns 4 [...]
We present to you a menu of tidbits collected in recent days that are too short for blog posts and sometimes too long for a tweet (when we want to add clarifying comments). Headings provide a light grouping to help you skim the offerings. Bon appétit! Techie Stuff The Mono Accessibility project [...]
Everett Zufelt’s open letter to CTV (Canada) regarding the accessibility of CTVOlympics.ca makes me angry. I had already read Joe Clark’s article about the Vancouver Olympics websites being inaccessible to disabled people, as well as the Webaxe article. It was clear from Twitter that the sites were inaccessible. So why should Everett [...]
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