Why I don't develop for the iPhone/iPod Touch
| tags: programming, enabling technology, links
The iPhone and iPod Touch are very interesting platforms for enabling technology. Touch, accelerometers, portability, radio, coolness; they've got it all.
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There is another music game in here somewhere
| tags: ideas, links, enabling technology
After finding iDaft and then the YouTube video on Tar Heel Reader , I'm thinking about music games in a new way. In a trip down memory lane we came across Mahna Mahna . I love this video!
Reading with Franz
| tags: motor impaired, enabling technology, links, literacy
Paul posted a really nice video about using Tar Heel Reader over at YouTube. The puppet and the stop motion self assembly of the switch interface are great! Check out Reading with Franz .
Flash 10 ignores files served with Content-Disposition attachment
| tags: programming, links
I got a report that
Tar Heel Reader
wasn't speaking on some newer computers. Thankfully it also didn't work on my Vista VM. I painfully tracked down the problem to the
Content-Disposition: attachment
header I had added to make debugging easier. After figuring out the problem I found this
Adobe info describing the change
.
Court again rules against US paper money
| tags: blind, enabling technology, links
A US federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the country's one-sized paper money discriminates against the blind and told the government to change the currency's size and texture. It's taken six years to get this far, and the government may well appeal again. I say give it up and switch to an accessible design.
Releasing the music in your head
| tags: enabling technology, links
Thanks to Martha for pointing out this video: TED | Talks | Tod Machover, Dan Ellsey: Releasing the music in your head (video) . Very interesting. I'd love to do something like this for kids. Machover talks about Hyperscore.
Tools for classification
| tags: programming, ideas, links, enabling technology
Links I found related to classification.
Marking Up a Tag Cloud
| tags: enabling technology, links
24 ways: Marking Up a Tag Cloud is an excellent discussion of how to implement a cloud using CSS. I hadn't realized that most ways of doing it are inaccessible. I used his approach to construct my query cloud page .
Ian Bicking on HTML Accessibility
| tags: ideas, links, enabling technology
Ian Bicking's interesting and provocative blog post on HTML Accessibility is a good read. Empirical accessibility is a good idea. I think by this he means making it work for real users. Fred Brooks' ideas about the computer scientist as toolsmith seem very relevant.
Daylight Savings Wastes Energy
An article in the WSJ reports on a study of energy consumption in Indiana before and after their recent switch to DST. The switch cost them $8.6 million extra for electricity.
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