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Useful Accessibility Tools

The Thursday Three

Today’s three are all about accessibility again, but this time I’m focusing on tools that will help you create more accessible sites. I personally use each of these, and find them very useful. This is not a sales pitch, either, as all of them (at the time of writing this) are free to use and platform independent. (more…)

Useful Web Terminology

The Thursday Three

This week’s three are all about terminology. It’s easy to get bogged down in the technical aspects of website design or management. If you’re someone who’s not particularly technical in nature, yet you’re tasked with managing a blog or a corporate site, the jargon can sound pretty daunting. Moreover, even after you become familiar with it, you may not even know completely what it means. Here’s a start: (more…)

3 Ways to Make Your WordPress Blog More Accessible Today

Don’t be frightened. Making your blog more accessible will not require a redesign or major changes (in most cases). You already know all the reasons why you should be creating more accessible content, so what’s keeping you? Here are three quick tips to help your blog that you can start doing today. (more…)

3 Quick Ways to Google Without a Smartphone

Even though most of my friends view me as a technocrat, I don’t have an iPhone. I’ve been getting along fine without one, mainly because I’m pretty constantly near a wireless network and I can use my trusty little iPad Nano, er, I mean iPod Touch. However, there are times when I need to find something out quickly, and Google is really my only hope. Here are three quick ways you can get info from Google via SMS on your regular wireless phone. (more…)

Three Reasons To Go Back To South by Southwest

Even while at SXSW I was noticing posts on Twitter from people saying they’d never come back, or what a waste of money it is, etc. Since returning, I’ve noticed blog posts pop up where the author lists a bunch of tips and then bluntly states that they won’t go back. Are there negative aspects to SXSW? Sure, but I believe the positives outweigh all that. Here’s my logic in the form of (more…)