As you may have heard already, Blackboard, Inc. acquired ANGEL Learning, Inc. in May of this year. Of significance for Bb clients was the hiring of Ray Henderson (former ANGEL VP/Chief Products Officer) to be the President of Blackboard Learn where he will have responsibility for product development, support, services and hosting for all [...]
For planning purposes, below is the Bb maintenance schedule for the 2009/2010 academic year:
Summer 2009
August 5th thru 7th (Wed – Fri)*
Fall 2009
October 24th (Sat)
December 23rd (Wed)*
Spring 2010
February 13th (Sat) OR 15th (Mon)
March 15th (Mon)
Summer 2010
May 29th (Sat)
August 12th – 14th (Wed – Fri)
*These dates correspond with other maintenance projects that require system downtime.
An interview with Kimberley Blessing, author of Adapting to Web Standards, by fellow New Riders author Richard Harrington.
By ron
Filed in Blackboard, Web
The campus experienced a loss of commercial power this morning just before 8:00 am. As a result, both Blackboard systems (version 6.3 and version 8) as well as our primary internet web server were brought down. A backup web server (in another building) is currently online and better reflects the status of the power outage, you can check it (at [...]
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/
