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I haven’t gotten my daytime events planned out, and I won’t, really, as I’ve found that any such organizing is wasted after the first few sessions. Things just change once you’ve met friends and talked about what’s going on where.
The evening events are a little easier to schedule. At least a little. You’ll see me [...]

Mike Davies writes a must-read piece on accessibility and the “bigger picture”:
There needs to be a grassroots movement to share the experience of web accessibility in an atmosphere conducive to such endeavours. It needs to be open to all people interesting in moving accessibility forward - without any of the ingrained dogma of universality. Somewhere [...]

Having recently upgraded Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and Reader, I noticed the wider aspect ratio of the splash and “about” screens. Gone are the older 4:3-esque screens. It’s now HD-inspired images and I think they’re gorgeous.

Illustrator (and Photoshop) CS2 has an aspect ratio of 1.7, or approximately 6 x 3.5. Reader has an aspect ratio of [...]

I just finished working with one of our web server admins (you know, the guys who read Apache log files over breakfast) on a problem caused by three installs of Wordpress 2.1 on our server. There was this hammering on the server being caused by repeated calls for a wp-cron.php file. this is a file [...]

Thinking of Web design as merely something visual is to think of an ocean as something blue, featureless, and flat. For both the oceans and the Web, there’s an entire, rich ecosystem below the surface that [...]

Wow. Joe Clark looked over Wordpress 2.01Alpha against the ATAG (Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines 1.0) and created a wonderful, detailed assessment. I had a thought a few months back of seeing what it would take to make Wordpress’s administrative interface as accessible as possible. Joe’s a step and a leap ahead of me.
He doesn’t address [...]