]> http://evolt.org <!-- <h2><a href="http://evolt.org/">Welcome to evolt.org</a></h2> <p>We are a community of like minded people, web professionals, promoting the mutual free exchange of ideas, skills and experiences. To this end we run several mailing lists including '<a href="http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/thelist">thelist</a>' a vibrant mailing list with thousands of members. If you have a question related to any aspect of web development you can join <a href="http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/thelist">thelist</a> right now and become a part of the community.</p> <p>Our members also write articles for our website (this one). You can be a part of this community. All you have to do is click on '<a href="http://evolt.org/user/register">register</a>' above. Once you have registered you can submit comments or articles to the website.</p> <p>If you are interested in helping behind the scenes then join '<a href="http://lists.evolt.org/mailman/listinfo/theforum">theforum</a>' another evolt mailing list dedicated to the running of evolt.org</p> <hr /> --> en-GB http://evolt.org/node/62434 The problem is HTML5 is so lax in its requirements, as compared to previous versions of HTML, that editors can become a hindrance to web site development. Commentary & Society Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:30:30 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62433 With WCAG guidelines, and by extension federal guidelines, referencing "cognitive disability" as one form of disability which developers need to support, you'd be hard-pressed to find a definition of the term anywhere in those guidelines. Commentary & Society Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:29:32 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62432 As mobile devices are more common, and browsing the web on them has gotten even easier, we can expect to see them continue to gain ground on traditional computers for casual web surfing. News Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:27:05 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62426 With HTML5 on the horizon, it is becoming far easier to embed video on a web page than it has been. However, you also need to bear in mind that not only are video (and audio) transcripts good practice, they are required by law for many organizations. Reviews & Links Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:31:00 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62423 Many of us have been following the ongoing progress of HTML5 for some time now, alternately curious and confused by the nascent specification. How'd we get here and what do we, as web developers, do? Community News Tue, 26 Jan 2010 08:22:37 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62403 The W3C WAI has just published a document, "Contacting Organizations about Inaccessible Websites," that helps walk users through the steps necessary to contact someone about the accessibility issues you find on a site, along with tips and sample emails. News Thu, 07 Jan 2010 08:20:42 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62401 What does it mean to have a huge number of Twitter followers? What does it do for you? The answer to both is: Nothing. Commentary & Society Tue, 19 Jan 2010 11:10:13 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62370 Nine years ago I had become fed up with trying to explain that screen resolution, browser chrome, and browser size combine to create some unique viewport sizes. Today Google has gotten a little closer to getting the point with its Browser Size tool. IA/Usability News Wed, 06 Jan 2010 09:46:32 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62366 Back in October I commented how the list of URL shorteners has gotten even shorter. As bit.ly rose to the top thanks to Twitter, Tr.im and Cli.gs called it quits. Things have changed a bit since then. News Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:58:21 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62358 There is an article over at Practical Ecommerce titled Accessibility: How Many Disabled Web Users Are There? It is refreshing to see more traditional sites dealing with accessibility, especially when it can so significantly affect their bottom line. IA/Usability Wed, 16 Dec 2009 01:05:43 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62344 Google can use its speech recognition technology to parse the audio track of your videos and create captions automatically. Much like machine translation, the quality of these captions may not be the best, but it can at least provide enough information for a user who could not otherwise understand the video at all to glean some meaning and value. News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:37:30 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62336 Microsoft revealed some first details of Internet Explorer 9 at the Microsoft Professional Developer's Conference, as reported by Mashable today. Only in development for three weeks, there's still quite a lot of time before it gets to market. News Tue, 15 Dec 2009 14:36:34 -0600 http://evolt.org/s3secure There's more than one tutorial out there about creating your own Flash video, and a handful that show how to use Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) to host them. I discovered recently, rather painfully, that if you want to protect your bandwidth costs by restricting access to the video, the details are sketchy and often conflicting. Once I sorted it out for myself I wanted to share. Code Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:45:50 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62317 WebAIM conducted a survey of the preferences of screen reader users in October, gathering a lot of interesting data about how users utilize assistive technologies. IA/Usability News Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:49:07 -0600 http://evolt.org/node/62307 Media outlets seem to have settled on October 29, 2009 as the official birthday of the Internet. This date has been chosen because it's the day that Leonard Kleinrock at the University of California-Los Angeles sent a message over a two-computer network (the other end being a computer at Stanford Research Institute) with Charley Kline manning the UCLA keyboard and Bill Duvall on the Stanford site. News Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:14:25 -0600