ThePickards
standards, accessibility, and ranting and general stuff by the web chemist

My mother’s been on a two and a half week safari in Africa, and apart from making me insanely jealous by regaling me with tales of walking with lion cubs, sitting in a jeep driving alongside real live wild lions, seeing giraffes, rhinos and the like, as well as taking in various items of cultural […]

Read: Those darn Toon fans turn up everywhere, don’t they? »

I mean, I knew he was on decent money, but I didn’t realise he was getting £18.2 million per year. At least, that’s what clubcall would have us believe …

Read: How much do we pay Boumsong? »

A few weeks ago, I was looking at my site statistics, and discovered I was suddenly vastly more popular than I had ever been. From my previous position of around 400-500 hits per day, I was getting somewhere in the region of 2000. Wow. Well, it’s nice to be popular. However, when I looked at […]

Read: 15% less visitors, and I’m happy »

You can imagine how delighted I was to get an email from Mr Eedirs Adam, addressed to the managing director. Since it’s my personal site, I presume that’s me. Anyway, he was formerly a personal aide to one of the ministers of Sierra Leone, and … what the heck, he can tell you himself.
I HAVE […]

Read: My very first 419, thanks to the W3C »

Firstly, quick pointers for those of you who for some reason or other don’t follow football in the English Premiership. Football is the world’s best game. Americans call it soccer, but they’re wrong. They just call it that because they’ve got this game, which is a bit like rugby, only with more padding, big helmets, […]

Read: Mmm… lovely Duff »

Just one of those odd little snippets that catch your eye, but you know how people talk about the past as being behind you? And the future ahead of you? Right? Obviously time not actually interacting with the standard three dimensional model (I’m talking Newtonian physics here, before anyone gets uppity) it’s neither in front […]

Read: Time, tide, and universal cognitives wait for no man »

This article isn’t going to tell you information about types of cognitive disabilities, what causes cognitive disabilities or how to diagnose them.
It’s not even going to differentiate between them. All it is going to do is look at some of the problems people with cognitive difficulties frequently face, and provide advice on how to make […]

Read: The Forgotten People: Designing for Cognitive Disability »

As part of the gradual transfer of content from the old version of my site over to WordPress, I’ve transferred three articles. If you’ve not previously read them, then now’s your chance! If you have previously read them, then you can either take the opportunity to read them again, or just ignore this post.

Read: Articles Re-issued »

In a thread on AccessifyForum this afternoon, the following question was asked:
is [visually] challenged accepted US terminology?Redux
A quote I found from the RNIB this afternoon seemed to suggest it was:

Read: Social Conditioning: The Differently Abled »

A very accosting layout and a interesting discussion topic, do you provide any Web-based services to universities or students?Milos Mandic
I received a comment on my blog some time ago (June I think) asking pretty much that question. Apart from mentally adding "well, do ya, punk?" to the end of it, I wasn’t sure what to […]

Read: Milos Mandic And The Strange Case Of The Comment Spam »