Adobe has released public betas for their next version of Dreamweaver, Fireworks and Soundbooth. To download, visit Adobe Labs.
Note: Remember to coordinate any software install on a college computer with User Support.
On-Line Web 2.0 Accessibility Course using the W3C ARIA Specifications
Dates: April 15th to May 8th, 2008Days: Tuesdays and ThursdaysTime: 3:00pm - 4:00pm CST (Chicago Local Time)
The on-line course is designed for web developers creating Web 2.0 applications to learn about the accessibility of these technologies to people with disabilities. Participants will learn about [...]
On January 16, 2008 Sun Microsystems announced it has entered an agreement to acquire MySQL AB, the world’s most popular open source database and part of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP) stack.
“Now that all the major browsers (and many minor ones) have pledged support for Acid2, Ian Hickson has moved on to preparing Acid3 …” Kimberly Blessing, WaSP Co-Lead
Where Acid2 tested static HTML and CSS, Acid3 will concentrate on the dynamic side of the web - ECMAScript and DOM. Although a work in progress (only 84 [...]
If you are interested in learning more about WordPress as a blogging or personal publishing platform, click on the link below to watch a brief (15 minute) video by Michael D. Pollock, CEO of Solostream Web Studio.
http://www.solostream.com/2006/10/30/video-introduction-to-wordpress/
Dean Hachamovitch, General Manager of Microsoft’s IE team announced last December 19th that Internet Explorer 8 passed the Acid2 test:
I’m delighted to tell you that on Wednesday, December 12, Internet Explorer correctly rendered the Acid2 page in IE8 standards mode.
The Acid2 test was developed by the Web Standards Project (WaSP) to help browser vendors evaluate [...]
Here are the totals (as of 4:45 PM) for help requests on the first day of the semester:
Phone calls: 78
Emails: 90
and counting …
The final drafts for the standards and implementation guidelines have been posted on the Illinois Department of Human Services web site. You can review them at:
http://www.dhs.state.il.us/page.aspx?item=33503
Comments, questions and suggestions can be emailed to dhs.accessibility@illinois.gov.
Google has made available the 2007 version of their annual Year-End Zeitgeist, this year’s most populat and fastest rising search terms. I’m not sure what to make of Anna Nicole Smith at #10 on the Fastest Rising (U.S.) list, while Shakira was #9 on the Fastest Falling (Global) list.
By ron
Filed in Accessibility, Web
Illinois Board of Higher Education Web Accessibility Consortium: www.cita.uiuc.edu/collaborate/illinois/
To say I was a bit peeved when I discovered my home PC had become infected would be understating things. In fact I was furious. Yes while in some ways I may have been cocky or arrogant about infections, in other ways I was overly cautious compared to some? My wife more than once complained [...]
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is trying a new approach to combat what it believes is the “rampant pirating of digital music on college campuses” according to eSchool News online. (Full Story)
I’m sure Congress didn’t fully consider the potential ramifications a change to DST could have on my personal computer, but as Dst-Day (March 11, 2007) approached you could see a heightened level of activity on the part of the IT division. How will the change effect email? Will the updates require a system restart? How [...]
By ron
Filed in Blackboard, Web
We experienced a systems outage on Sunday, March 4, 2007 that affected our web services (internet web site, intranet web site, Blackboard, web registration, etc.). The outage happened between 3:30 am and 1:45 pm and was the result of a loss of cooling in the server room. Blackboard was also unavailable from 2:55 [...]
