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I commented on Zayna’s post with some well-timed (?) Alice in Wonderland references and on Lisa’s post about how awesome Ted.com is.

I’m finding that as the weeks go on, I’m thinking more and more about how I want my final project to look. So this week’s readings on usability were slightly overwhelming, if not perfectly timed. It’s as if every week, with each additional reading, we get one more thing to think about or take into…

Hooray and thanks to Laura who provided us with a link to WAVE, a very useful website to help us “test” our sites for accessibility. (As I, like most of you, couldn’t get the screen reader simulator to work on my browser.) There were a couple of best practices types comments, which I will heed…

This week’s readings on concerns of accessibility, were eye opening. I’ve worked in web companies for 12 years and I can tell you from personal experience that only one of my teams ever discussed issues of accessibility during the course of a brainstorm, build or launch of a major site. And that’s terrible. Now I…

I commented on Roger’s and Laura’s Accessibility posts. I’m also playing with my new online, scholarly identity, so forgive me if I try on new blog titles and such.

My image assignment is up. As I mentioned before, since the images for my final project are not old enough to need restoration and since I will not be working with engravings, I have a bit of a mishmash of family photos for my assignment this week. I do have historic photos of Mrs. Lee…