Archives for 2011
It’s renewal time in STC. The join or renew your membership form is one click away. If you are renewing your membership, just select “AccessAbility SIG” as one of your SIGs. I won’t make any promises on what you’ll get out of joining STC or – especially! – the AccessAbility SIG. Only [...]
In November, Denis Boudreau tweeted about a periodic table of SEO ranking factors. He concluded that somebody really ought to do one for accessibility as well. Periodic table? The periodic table as explained in Wikipedia is “a tabular display of the 118 known chemical elements organized by selected properties of their atomic [...]
This year, Glenda Sims made a wish for a more accessible web. It’s not nice to spoil someone’s good wish, but I don’t think she’ll get her wish for Christmas. Santa would definitely need many, many helpers like fairy godmothers, Mary Poppins, and, well, you get the idea. That’s where you come [...]
It’s nearly a year since the Fix the Web campaign was launched. It takes a while to fix “the interwebs”, so let’s revisit a press release from this past February. It contains many good reminders for us all! This is posted with permission from Nick Ferry, Pumpkin Communications, UK, and Gail Bradbrook, [...]
Update: Deadline is changed. Was September 28th. Now moved to Monday, October 3rd. It’s time to submit that great idea for a session in next year’s STC Technical Communication Summit! The Summit is scheduled for 20-23 May 2012 in Rosemont, Illinois. We hope for great presentations that include a major or a [...]
The STC Technical Communication 2011 is coming! From the 15th to the 18th of May, there’ll be a technical communication buzz in Sacramento. What are some of the accessibility and usability highlights at the summit? Innovations in Accessibility: Designing for Digital Outcasts with Kel Smith – full of awesome that’s hard to [...]
We received this announcement from the STC IDL SIG. Have fun, along with your learners. Use easy, free, multi-media tools purposefully in your course to engage your learners with content, each other, and you! During this one-hour webinar you’ll see examples of YouTube, TeacherTube, Voicethread, Voki, Wiggio, Jing, and many more. You’ll [...]
We’d like to share some news we received from Rick Sapir, webmaster for the STC Technical Editing SIG. The Technical Editing SIG is offering two scholarships of $800.00 each and they are accepting your application! The Scholarships The first scholarship assists students who are pursuing an undergraduate degree in Technical Communication and [...]
A silly .htaccess issue kept this blog a lot quieter than planned for much too long. Fortunately, that issue is solved now. At least we had Twitter! We’ll ease back into blogging with three quick announcements for all STC members. It’s Election Time! First of all, vote! Yes, we are in the [...]
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