Sharon K. Goetz
that feeling when
When my webhost upgraded something, at some point during the past year—probably the database underlying this WordPress installation—the upgrade rotated Unicode code points a notch or two, such that — displays as — instead of — = em-dash. Though I won’t clean up the old note-taking/event posts, a few pages I care about are queued […]
a small contribution
My response to Data-Sitters Club 12[1] has been included in the “Dear Reader: More Coding Stories” appendix. Thanks to Quinn Dombrowski for taking the trouble to include additional voices! #12 is about learning to code, pondering which tools to use, and finding connections to known things. 1. Bowers, Katherine, Quinn Dombrowski, and Roopika Risam. “DSC […]
gratis mobile usability assessment: Dixon Lambtown
Let’s extend my lightweight, vendor-oriented web assessment to the iOS and Android apps released for Lambtown, plus how someone would find the apps via the lambtown.org website.
Andreas Burkard, Monitoring Systems for Checking Websites on Accessibility
Today I attended an English-language webinar about the results of an accessibility-tool evaluation study conducted by the Competence Center on Digital Accessibility at Stuttgart Hochschule der Medien (Stuttgart Media University), Germany. Lead presenter: Andreas Burkard.
gratis web accessibility assessment: Dixon Lambtown
Lambtown, an annual festival in Dixon, CA, has gone virtual this year, 2-4 Oct 2020! Props to them for converting an experience vibrant to participants’ physical senses into a web- and app-based experience. I’ve attended twice within the past ten years, once alone and once with my child, who enjoyed seeing weavers and spinners demonstrate […]