Eric Meyer’s S5 standards based presentation slides system is used quite a lot by webstandardismos for their presentations. However, some of its functionality is great for presenters but can be quite hard to follow for web surfers who just want to see what someone has presented. My personal challenge was to come up with something […]

I gave a presentation in a workshop this morning on the topic of “HTML tables best practices”. The catch: I didn’t get time to prepare properly and the audience was predominantly designers and non-technical types. I cobbled the thing together in half an hour during the first presentation of a colleague and the result is […]

European Digital Rights and Privacy International have sent an urgent letter yesterday to the UK Presidency and the European Commissioners for Justice and Media to show restraint in today’s extraordinary JHA Council. EDRI expects the UK Presidency to table a new urgent procedure for the proposal on telecommunication data retention, bypassing the European Commission and […]

I just went through some sites for an accessibility audit and keep bumping into the same issue: Alternative text for the sake of alternative text. If I surf some pages with a text browser, IBM Homepage Reader or Jaws and it takes me 10 minutes more to find my way around, I start wondering where […]

To anybody arriving here via “graphic images london bombs” in Google: What is wrong with you? I left the house at 8am, and wanted to get to work in time. I crossed Kings Cross probably 10 minutes before the Explosion and got evacuated at Victoria. 50 minutes bus ride later I arrived at the office […]