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Archive for April, 2010

Blindness and The Internet = Independence

By Guest Author: David Reynolds, software engineer for over 30 years.

Back in the Eighties, scanning and document recognition was the buzz word. The vision was for all Visually Impaired people to be equipped with scanners and OCR software, and I remember vividly training blind people to read recipe books, album covers, training materials, etc.
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Making Accessible Websites

I have had the great pleasure to have had a number of chats with David Reynolds, a blind internet user.  He has provided me with some very useful insights as to how website structure, coding and set-up can affect the accessibility of websites to the visually impaired.
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Mencap Like my Accessibility Report

Today following my report “Who Wins the Accessibility Election” I received an email from Mark Gale at Mencap who said;

“I was really interested to see your blog onthe accessibility of
political party websites. It was a great article about something I
feel is a key issue in actually engaging with constituents in a clear and transparent way.”

He also said he would mention my report on the Mencap website. 
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Further Accessibility News

Following my article Who Wins the Accessibility Election?  I received a call today from David Reynolds who is blind and it was enlightening to talk with him.
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Hacker Attacks Namesco

Namesco was down for about an hour tonight as a turkish hacker had attacked the server.  There were apparently attacks yesterday on WordPress sites exploiting the wrong permissions on the wp-config.php file – the automatic set-up by wordpress sets the wrong permissions for this file and so if your website has been hacked you need to;
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Happy Easter

Happy Easter to everyone especially our S3 Web Design clients.

I hope you get lots of lovely easter eggs but I must say I am quite disappointed with the Smarties one we had a few days ago, yes I know it was early but it was one of those evenings. 
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