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Today, the Federal Government responded to the report of the Government 2.0 Taskforce. While this response has taken rather longer than I would have hoped, that the government has responded in what appears to be an emerging election period, with many policy changes currently in the public eye, means I am more than pleased that [...]

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Image by trib via Flickr On Monday this week, IBM flew me to the Australian Open for a day at the tennis and a behind the scenes view of the technology they provide to this and other events in their role as the key technology provider. It was all done under the aegis of my [...]

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Three per cent accessibility

February 12, 2007

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While this article goes on to discuss new accessibility technology in Windows Vista (why?), what should be much more its main point is that in a UN-sponsored study, just three of 100 major websites passed WCAG 1.0! Frankly, this is an execrable state of affairs. I’ve been building web apps for a long time now, [...]

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Yay, Dutch lawmakers! While this post over at Quirksmode notes that a new Dutch law requires websites to be accessible (which isn’t new news in many jurisdictions including the USA and Australia), what it does do that is new is stipulate what it takes for that accessibility to be met: valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML [...]

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Sweet Color Schemer

November 21, 2005

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If, like me, you have no concept of web design, nor of how to come up with a decent color scheme for your site (let alone the design, which is a whole other story…), this little wonder will save your ass very nicely! And it’ll export your color scheme as a Adobe Photoshop .act, Macromedia [...]

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