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This three-part article series is intended to make it easier for non-experts to perform a basic accessibility check. I hope it will be helpful enough to make at least a few websites more accessible. Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 1, Background and Preparation | 456 Berea Street Evaluating Website Accessibility Part 2, Basic Checkpoints | 456 [...]

Boing Boing: Right-wing think-tank hates DRM The role of government is not to ensure that a private business’s pricing strategy succeeds, and consumers, who have not agreed to help enforce the DVD cartel’s segmentation scheme, are under no obligation to respect it.

I’m considering going to the SLA Conference and I’d love to find a roomate. Anyone else interested? (Planning early to submit FOL proposal.)

If you’re giving a talk and you aren’t sure if there will be Internet access, powerpoint slides are a popular alternative/backup plan. However, I don’t like powerpoint because I tend to show a lot of websites and the transition from powerpoint to browser is distracting and usually an uncomfortable break in the talk. Screenshots work [...]

Boing Boing: MPAA/RIAA/BSA: No breaking DRM, even if it’s killing you (literally!) The BSA, MPAA and RIAA have officially objected to a proposal to let the public break DRM that “threatens critical infrastructure and endangers lives.” They argue that if it becomes legal to break DRM that could kill you that it might harm their [...]

Boing Boing: Canadian recording industry: P2P isn’t bad for business The Canadian Record Industry Association (the Canadian version of the RIAA) has released a study in which they conclude that P2P downloaders buy lots of music, and that P2P doesn’t particularly harm their industry:

Open Access News Does the OA movement need a central organization? Absolutely. Look at Firefox. It has taken both the concentrated efforts of a the Mozilla Foundation and the enthusiastic preaching of it’s users to get it into the public eye (not that it still doesn’t have a long way to go). OA has the [...]

Pop Goes the Library: Good News on Gaming Very interesting links.

Nothing lasts forever, particularly my site designs. If you’re using a feed reader, you might want click through to see the new look. As always, I would love feedback.