Author Archives: Pace Arko

Web accessibility, virus throttles and QC errors

The W3C site undergoes a redesign that is XHTML strict. The error rate in quantum computing could pose a barrier to its practicality. Joe Clark drops Web accessibility science on the clueless at Slash. Bright sparks over at HP invent … Continue reading

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12-07-02 Circus of the Mighty

Molna’s Test of Strength, The Hights of Idiocy, Goblin Return: After defeat by the goblins, the Circus beat a hasty retreat down the trail back to Skidrow. On the way down, they ran into Kinsaul, their comrade from earlier missions … Continue reading

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Squeamishness, cyborgs and the Uncanny Valley

One of the many annoying things I disliked about the Borg in Star Trek was that it was automatically assumed that they had to take everyone over by force. Really? Seems to me they’d have no trouble convincing legions to … Continue reading

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Trains, Laces and silly Web tricks

In the US, passenger rail has for too long been neglected as medium haul mass transit. What is the optimal way to tie shoes? It’s not as simple as you might think. Dean Allen, co-founder of the WaSP, has written … Continue reading

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Irony in easy to swallow pill form

I rarely post political stuff here but, I just saw the shield for the Information Awarenss Office. Holy Ned! Don’t these fools realize that this logo hands the conspiracy nuts a loaded gun? Let’s think about what was running through … Continue reading

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I create a stir on Nanodot

Wow, I guess someone is taking me seriously over there. I should take the time to give them some good concrete suggestions.

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Where to find the science news

It’s sort of weird, watching all the stuff I read about back in 1988, come true. Hey, here is a useful science news collector. Bottom Quark was pretty slow there for a while.

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User defined CSS and accessibility, why IE 6 still sucks

Argh! Why can’t IE 6 support this? table, tr, th, td, thead, tbody, tfoot { display: block !important; } * { position: static !important; float: none !important; left: 0em !important; right: 0em !important; top: 0em !important; bottom: 0em !important; } … Continue reading

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Using search engines to enforce accessible markup

I just had a good idea. Why not put a few modules of code in Google (Or name your favorite engine.) that parse the spidered pages and checks them for DTD and CSS validity? Then people could compile search results … Continue reading

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Accessible data tables

If, like me, you are in the vanguard of the Semantic Web revolution, if, like me, you believe in web accessibility, then layout tables are anathema. On the other hand, using table markup for what it was originally meant to … Continue reading

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