Down here at the FDIC building today at the IDEAS conference hearing talks on 508 compliance. Lots of people from goverment web teams here, not quite the An Event Apart crowd… Aside from the hour discussion on what “web 2.0 actually is,” that was very out of place, it has been pretty informative.
This is also [...]

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If you asked me in 2006 what section 508 was, I would have given you some half-assed answer about the government and blind people.  I might have thrown in “screen reader” just for good measure.  I have designed and coded some sites that break all the rules out of complete ignorance.
True, 508 compliance isn’t manditory [...]

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Never again will I work in a design firm.
When I came back up to Baltimore from Virginia, I got a job in a week.  I was in a hurry to find work since I was moving regardless of employment status and just needed something.  I went on three interviews, including one at a top 10 [...]

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I’m moving this weekend, and while things were finalized this week, I decided yesterday to sign up for cable.  I pulled up Comcast.com and started poking around.
Just some background on the situation so the story makes more sense.  I’m moving to a suburb of Baltimore, Maryland.  I’m on a Macbook with Leopard 10.5.4 and using [...]

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In late June 2008, both Google and Adobe announced that they had worked together to improve the Google spider’s ability to crawl Flash elements for content.
In the past, web designers faced challenges if they chose to develop a site in Flash because the content they included was not indexable by search engines. They needed to [...]

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