Joshue O Connor wrote up a very helpful guide to the back-end accessibility of 10 content management systems at Juicy Studios. The goal of the article, Choosing an Accessible CMS (Content Management System), was to identify a CMS with a highly accessible back end which would allow users with disabilities and minimal HTML (HyperText Markup Language) knowledge to maintain a website. This isn’t a highly scientific, detailed set of user trials for the content management systems — but the study […]
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Easy PHP Photo Gallery
I dropped support for this project in about 2012, and the files are no longer available for download. Thanks for stopping by! There are a lot of PHP (Hypertext PreProcessing) photo gallery scripts out there. I know; because I went looking for one some time ago, and found myself barraged with Javascript, AJAX, and complicated installations. I didn’t want any of those things, so in the end I just wrote one for myself — and this is the end result. […]
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Writing a website is a complex task. The website needs to cater to the very human needs of it’s visitors, but also requires a certain amount of consideration for it’s non-human visitors: web browsers of all sorts, search engine spiders, or any piece of software which gathers information from the internet. These two aspects can’t easily be separated: humans are using computers to interface with your web-based information, so the information received by your visitor is biased by the device […]
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There’s no question that I’m going to advocate incorporating accessibility at the beginning of development in this brief article. I am, after all, approaching this question from the perspective that no site should ever be developed without taking accessibility into account. However, there are unquestionably millions of websites out there which have already failed to consider disabled populations, so building new accessible sites is certainly not the only work to be done. Accessibility isn’t really all that difficult, in the […]
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These are articles that you need to read: Mike Davies: BarCamp London Accessibility Panel Thoughts Mike Davies is a great writer with some very refined thoughts about web accessibility. He also has some very strong opinions against universality. In this article, he describes what he perceives as a need for the accessibility community to create a strong voice which will discuss accessibility while completely excluding universality. Mike Cherim: Failed? Fundamentally Flawed? Mike Cherim responds to Davies comments. Although agreeing with […]
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