This is the second part of my look at Microsoft’s free e-book Engineering for Accessibility, which looks at accessibility for non-web applications (or you can view the the first half of my look). Designing Your Implementation There is then some more technical detail on how specifically to design your implementation, based upon whether the controls [...]

Microsoft have made their e-book Engineering for Accessibility available as a free download, which is obviously a good thing. I would obviously urge anyone who cares about accessibility to read it, because while the book relates to software rather than web design, the basic principles behind accessibility are the same, and if it helps you [...]

Concluding my three-part piece looking at the “wonders” of Gateshead College, I decided to have a look at their website to see whether the problems I encountered with their enrolment procedures were symptomatic of further problems, or whether this was just a one-off. At first glance, what I saw was not exactly promising: Hmm. I [...]

Well, okay, you probably don’t want to be doing this, but if you’re not aware of what is being posted on Facebook about you, you can be pretty sure that someone will be saying something negative about you. I’ve looked at this sort of thing in relation to the public sector when I asked Do [...]

I recently came across something on the Health and Safety Executive site called myth of the month where they set out to debunk some health and safety myths about the Health and Safety Executive being miserable killjoys. Ho ho, a bunch of health and safety myths. This’ll be a bit of a laugh. Chortle. And [...]

Portsmouth Council have banned staff from using Facebook, causing grunts of approval from those who feel Council staff sit on their arses all day, and howls of derision from those who feel that organisations who do not embrace social media are simply burying their heads in the sand. Firstly, it came about because the local [...]

Cambridgeshire Council shared their Social Network and Blogging Policy on Public Sector Forums the other day where they have set out the rules for what they expect employees to do in terms of using blogs and contributing on social networks. Before even reading the policy, I can tell that this is a good idea. This [...]

My old colleagues at Public Sector Forums have launched a new site with a BuddyPress engine — UK Gov OSS. This is a community (i.e. non-official) site set up to share information and ideas on open source and open standards for government in the UK. From the sounds of it, it is therefore aimed mostly [...]

There’s an interesting post by Peter Barton of Lincolnshire County Council over at Public Sector Forums. If you’re in the public sector and you aren’t already a member, you might want to take the opportunity to wander over and register so that you can read up on the full details. If you’re not prepared to [...]

I don’t object to people using Internet Explorer. Really, I don’t. For a lot of people it is their favourite browser. That is fine. However, I do object to people using Internet Explorer 6. It is so standards non-compliant that any designer pretty much has to produce one standards compliant design, and then introduce a [...]