Author: Joe Dolson

WordPress to Twitter with Cli.gs

November 10, 2008

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Topics: Blogging, WordPress.

About WP-to-Twitter Download WP-to-Twitter Technically, this plugin has been available from the WordPress plugin directory since last Monday, but today is it’s official launch. This is for two reasons: first, it gave the plugin a week to “shake out the bugs,” so that the official launch could be as stable as is reasonably possible. Second, it’s my birthday, so I’ll be able to remember when the plugin launched. Isn’t that sweet? The plug-in is pretty straightforward: it posts a status […]

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New article at Practical eCommerce

November 6, 2008

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Topics: Accessibility.

Published today: Accessibility: Making Video and Audio Usable For The Deaf at Practical eCommerce magazine. To summarize, the article is intended to demonstrate the value of creating alternate versions of video or audio resources which go beyond simply reproducing the content — developing alternatives which themselves contain a more visceral, appealing style.

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Joe Clark’s New Book

September 24, 2008

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Topics: News.

“Organizing our Marvellous Neighbours” is now available for purchase! So, Joe Clark — web accessibility guru, now retired from the field — is publishing a new book. The new book is on what could be considered an obscure field, except for the minor detail that approximately 33,383,245 people deal with the subject every day. The name of the book is Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English, and the subject is the peculiarities of English spelling […]

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Update to Search script in MySQL/PHP

September 11, 2008

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Topics: Accessibility.

This is an old project, now obsolete. Links have been redacted. I know it’s only been a month, so it’s obviously far too soon for me to be publishing any kind of a script update. However, these were things which just needed to be done. First, I’ve greatly improved the internationalism of the script: it now operates searches on UTF-8 encoded data, so it should be great for working with any language which requires characters in that character set. Testing […]

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