Start your translation Get an account Getting plug-ins localized can be a big challenge. Depending on a single very dedicated person to translate hundreds of out-of-context strings (and to update them when the next version comes available) is far from reasonable. As a result, the translations available for my plug-ins have tended towards the sketchily inaccurate. Not because the translations are bad (although, to be honest, I don’t really know that), but because many, many strings are missing from the […]
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The case of the missing alt attribute.
Jennifer Sutton brought this interesting factoid to my attention today: the single most common HTML (HyperText Markup Language) validation error is the missing alt attribute. Of the 100 most common validation errors collected by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Love, a missing alt attribute comes it at number one — with almost double the occurrences of the next most common error. It’s 2012, and the key mistakes in HTML seem to remain the same. Now, one can’t help but hope […]
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I finally released version 2.4.0 of WP to Twitter today. The latest major version release was quite a long time ago – 2.3.0 went out in June of 2011, and although it has received 18 (18!) bug fix or minor feature updates since then, the plug-in hasn’t had a good overhaul for a very long time. Well, that’s not true anymore. The version I released today has some pretty substantial changes — it no longer requires cURL support, for one […]
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May 9, 2012 is the first of what will hopefully be many Global Accessibility Awareness Days. The concept is simple, I hope: raising awareness of accessibility issues around the globe, so I’m going to neglect to spend a great deal of time explaining what it is. The day was inspired by Joe Devon and has tirelessly been promoted by Joe and Jennison Asuncion — and all thanks to them for their work! Why Global Accessibility Awareness The biggest problem facing […]
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At CSUN 12, I attended an interesting but somewhat disconcerting demonstration of Google’s progress on making their Google Docs suite accessible. The presentation was by Anne Taylor from the National Foundation of the Blind and Jeff Harris, the product manager for Google Docs. They clearly agreed on one core point: that Google Docs was definitely not ready for users with disabilities. So, the demonstration was more a show of the range of changes which Google has been adding to make […]
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