Last week, I had to pleasure of attending and briefly speaking at the first Philadelphia Front-End / UX Meetup at Indy Hall.
I spoke about two tools that I love to use as a part of my workflow to make sites that I work on more accessible: Wave Toolbar and Fangs. These are both for the Firefox browser, OS independent.
If you’re interested in looking through the slides, check them out in PDF form below:
Lightning Talk – Low Hanging Fruits
I’ll see you soon!
This weekend I had the pleasure of attending and presenting at UXCampDC. As promised, here are the slides from my talk: Does this Survey Suck? __Yes _x_ NO PDF: surveys Thanks to everyone for attending!
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Alexis* knew things were a little different as soon as she touched her computer. She just needed to do a simple task, using simple software that she’s been using for ages, and be able to use her screen reader to do so. She couldn’t. The software had just released a “newly improved” function, which left… Continue Reading
Smashing Magazine is a web design destination for information on best practices, current trends, and even little tutorials on how to master emerging techniques and new creative suite functions. Related to the topic of patterns and textures in design as in Annette Tietenberg essay “The Pattern Which Connects”, this post (from about a year and… Continue Reading
I’ve recently run into an instance where I was researching a solution for an issue with a project I was working on. The project involved taking a paper form, scanning it into a computer using Acrobat, using OCR text recognition to extract information, and sorting the form into appropriate folders in Sharepoint based on the… Continue Reading
Lesson One: Don’t Click On IT! Phishing attempts are prevalent everywhere: I’ve seen the most creative excuses for getting private information stolen. Those gems never cease to amaze me. Sometimes… ok, most of the time, I feel the thought process of my our customers is something like this: But seriously, people generally fall into the… Continue Reading