Posted in Thoughts, accessibility, virtual worlds on Nov 14th, 2008
I’m not sure why but 2008 has been the year of the wiki in accessibility circles. As the field of accessibility has got more vast and complex so have people’s need for detail and areas of specialism making it almost impossible to stay on top of everything. This can be quite bewildering for anyone trying [...]
Posted in standards, virtual worlds on Jul 9th, 2008
Courtesy of Chris Mills over at Dev.Opera and a crack team of web pro’s, yesterday saw the launch of Opera’s Web Standards Curriculum. This is a unique set of resources that outline what you need to know when building standards compliant web sites.
Aimed at web designers, developers, content editors or just about anyone with an [...]
Posted in accessibility, standards, virtual worlds on Jun 27th, 2008
ScriptEnabled is the brainchild of Chris Heilmann from Yahoo!. Scheduled to happen in September (date as yet unconfirmed) it’s billed as the first ever "accessibility hack day":
The aim of the conference is to break down the barriers between disabled users and the social web as much as giving ethical hackers real world issues to solve. [...]
Posted in accessibility, virtual worlds on Feb 26th, 2008
I spotted Using Virtual Worlds and Emerging Technologies for People with Disabilities on Upcoming this Friday, 29th of February. The free event will be held online with live discussion in Second Life at 9am PST (slurl) as well as a follow-up discussion for the rest of the day, 10AM PST- 6PM PST, in TechSoup’s Accessible [...]
Posted in virtual worlds on Dec 16th, 2007
Islab is described as the official search tool for Second Life and is the latest addition to my list of slashups: mashups for Second Life. This is the best out of world search tool I’ve found so far making finding people, places and information so much more efficient and accessible than relying on the search [...]