All posts by AlastairC
SharePoint 2010 Accessibility Event
The "UK Accessibility Roundtable for Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010", a HiSoftware event at Microsoft's offices in London Victoria. The day revolved around several demos of SharePoint 2010 and Compliance Sheriff, and was fleshed it out with some quite good accessibility information. These are my notes on the event, with a lot of interspersed commentary. Stackoverflow dev day London – Roundup
I’ve just gotten back from a great day at the Stackoverflow Dev Day, I didn’t take my usual copious notes, but I thought a flavour of proceedings would be good to get down. For those who don’t know me, I have to add the caveat that I’m not a …
ARIAs with Flash, Flex, and AIR
I.e. Accessible Rich Internet Applications with Flash, Flex & Air. This presentation by Andrew Kirkpatrick took us through some of the technologies available, with a special eye on the accessibility possibilities and things you need to watch out for. Techshare Keynote – Richard Schwerdtfeger
I'm putting up my notes from the talks I saw at Techshare 2009, and Richard Schwerdtfeger's was the first. Music industry change
Ok, I don't know much about the music industry, but there is such as huge disparity between what the record labels say and just about everyone else, it's difficult not to comment. I think that's probably because their business is over, and here's what might replace them. An unimportant hole in Section 508?
says Section 508 inefficient for CMS and web development tools. This matches what I would expect, however, I discovered the article has it the opposite way round.
Usability Introduction – Baltics
Django – Local vs Live error
I came across a strange error using Django when putting something live that I couldn’t find via google, so hopefully this will help anyone in the same position. When I put some new code live (to allow members to enter events), it errored with:
'str' object has no attribute '_default_manager'…Is accessibility actually usability?
A couple of days ago I had the pleasure of speaking at the first seminiar on usability in Bulgaria. A great thanks to the people at .net and Lucrat in Bulgaria, it was a great event with great hosts. It was also great to see & meet Peter Merholz, having …
Window click throughs and scrolling
John Gruber recently expounded on the problems with click through, which put simply: is when you click a control on a window / application that’s in the background, it works. This is something that ‘got me’ when I started using Macs (that generally don’t allow click through), as it …