Website Accessibility Metrics Symposium 2011

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Nov 302011
 

Next wednesday, the 5th of December 2011, the W3C WAI Initiative will be having and online symposium about Website Accessibility Metrics.

They have accepted a number of papers

  • Paper 1: Integration of Web Accessibility Metrics into a Semi-Automatic evaluation process
  • Paper 2: Measuring accessibility barriers on large scale sets of pages
  • Paper 3: A Template-aware Web Accessibility metric
  • Paper 4: A metrics to make different DTDs documents evaluations comparable
  • Paper 5: Lexical Quality as an Accessibility Metric for the Textual Web
  • Paper 6: Attaining Metric Validity and Reliability with the Web Accessibility Quantitative Metric
  • Paper 7: The case for a WCAG-based evaluation scheme with a graded rating scale
  • Paper 8: A zero in eChecker equals a 10 in eXaminator: a comparison between two metrics by their scores
  • Paper 9: Context-Tailored Web Accessibility Metrics
  • Paper 10: Web Accessibility Metrics For A Post Digital World
  • Paper 11: Towards a score function for WCAG 2.0 benchmarking
Very interesting topics that have direct relevance to the IRCSET post-doctoral research project that we are currently involved with with Dr. Sabine Moebs and Dublin City University. It will be interesting to hear Dr. Sabine’s post symposium commentary and Fluid Rock will be anxious to take any learnings and recommendations back into our day to day projects, to the benefit of our clients and their end users.

 

http://www.w3.org/WAI/RD/2011/metrics/

 Posted by LIAMO at 10:15 am

Testing new Toshiba AT100 tablet

 Education, Tablets  No Responses »
Oct 072011
 

Started testing the new Toshiba AT100 tablet today. Typing this post with it. So far so good. Its of interest for a number of reasons;

  • education device suitability – edcoDigital schools Digital Curriculum project
  • ircset research – Fluid Rock are engaged as a partner in a two year post-doctoral research project
  • Google Android Honeycomb version 3.1 – how it shapes up as a tablet OS
  • comparisons with Apple iPad from both a hardware and software viewpoint

more later….

 Posted by LIAMO at 1:44 pm  Tagged with:

Here we go again!

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Jun 302011
 

Another day another WP install. Will I bother aggregating posts from older blogs? Probably not. Lets start afresh.

A busy week so far… we had some esteemed guests from Apple visiting us in Fluid Rock on tuesday, including Liam Donohue (country manager Ireland), Mary Beth Janes (Bus Dev. Manager Education, EMEIA) and Éanna Ó Brádaigh (Bus Dev. Manager Education, Ireland). They were in to take a sneak peek at what we are doing with the Educational Book Company of Ireland in bringing the Irish Educational Curriculum to a digital platform. We’ve been working on this exciting project since February to deliver eBooks to the iPad (iOS) and Netbook (MS Windows) platforms so that Irish school kids will be leaving their heavy books behind them and moving to a Digital learning environment from September 2011.

Later that day, I was involved in interviewing candidates for Lecturer positions for a new course called WebElevate which will be delivered by the Digital Skills Academy in association with DIT. Its a Level 8 course funded under the Labour Activation Fund and its intended aim is to get capable unemployed graduates into the area of Digital Media. Hopefully, this will provide a broader pool of potential staff for Digital Media companies like ourselves and help to start addressing the vast gap of skilled and educated people who are needed to work in our high growth industry. There must be plenty of unemployed people that previously excelled in industries now in serious decline (like Construction) that can successfully cross-train into the Digital Media industry and can then make a productive new career for themselves.

 Posted by LIAMO at 8:49 am
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