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Yahoo! Accessibility

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Ted Drake
1 year, 6 months ago
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Next week is going to be a big week for me and accessibility on Yahoo! There’s a lot going on, I don’t know how it will all go down.

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1. I am going to Bangalore, India to discuss accessibility at the annual Front End Engineers conference. I’ve wanted to visit India for a long time and I’m looking forward to the chance. I’m also going to Paris and Munich for other Yahoo! business.

2. The Yahoo! Accessibility Stakeholders Group, of which I am a member, is hosting a global campaign to fix alt attributes across the network. Alt attributes are the snippets of text that appear when an image is not displayed. They are critical for those using a screen reader. Using alt attributes correctly seems to be the most basic element of making a site accessible, unfortunately they are also easily forgotten.

3. Yahoo! Avatars has added the Accessibility Stakeholders Group icon to the clothing options for your avatar (http://avatars.yahoo.com) This nifty logo replaces the normal Y in the logo with a braille version.

I’ll post more as the trip and campaign progress.

Connecting the online photographs to create a virtual world

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Ted Drake
1 year, 7 months ago
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Notre Dame early morning The recent TED conference featured this demo of a Microsoft sponsored project. It gathered photographs of Notre Dame on Flickr, analyzed the images to determine their spatial relationship to the building, and built a seamless, panoramic, three-dimensional representation.

Think about this concept. You are on vacation and take a picture of a landmark. After you upload it to Flickr, the image is matched with other images and the metadata is shared. Eventually, we will have virtual representations of the entire globe, not from an anonymous airplane or satellite but from the viewpoint of people.

Here’s a video that describes the project better.

Learn French by Podcast

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Ted Drake
1 year, 9 months ago
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The Louvre with sculpture by Maillol

I need to improve my French speaking skills for the upcoming move to Paris. Learn French by Podcast has been a good resource for easy to understand lessons. I’ve been able to pick up some really good conversational points. You can subscribe to it via iTunes or directly from the web site.

I’ve tried a few others, but this seems to be the most accessible.

Here’s a French conjugation tool: Le Conjugueur.