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Big kudos to Matt Herzberger and the rest of the team at Texas A&M for putting on a Web Accessibility Showcase this week. If you’re not able to be there this week, it’s streaming on ustream.tv. I’ll be presenting there tomorrow at 1330, Central US time.

U2 performing “Bad” from the music film, “Rattle and Hum.”

I remember still images from the scenes with Luke and Biggs on Tatooine that were cut out from the finished film. If you had a copy of the Star Wars paperback book, you might remember these scenes as they were in the book. Fan Justin Lensen has taken these lost scenes and edited them together [...]

I work with accessibility in technology. I do it because I believe it is the right thing to do. I am also one who believes all ideas can be taken too far and the proposals being made in the city of Austin for mandated accessible homes are examples of an idea being taken too far. [...]

I downloaded Firefox 3.0 this afternoon and ran into something that’s a wee bit annoying. Firefox’s interface includes a smooth, single-toned grey top to all its windows. Here’s the Preferences window (cropped for size issues; click on the image to see the full-size):

Looking at this, you would think that anywhere in the dark grey area [...]