Category Archives: Webmastering

Announcing a new policy here at Factory Floor

As you may see, looking over the archive, I am not a very frequent poster to my log. I want to change this. I hereby promise to write at least one entry every weekday from here in. I may even … Continue reading

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Microsoft, Wired and Standards

Microsoft, in a reactionary and cowardly refurbish, refuses to take a step forward to support web accessibility. Most of its pages don’t validate to standard. Wired Magazine, on the other hand, boldly shows the rest of the world that designing … Continue reading

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XHTML looks terrible in WebTV

All the sites I’ve built look terrible in WebTV. At least I know it’s WebTV’s fault. If everything I make validates as strict XHTML and CSS, then it’s not my fault. Today is a pretty slow day. Yesterday I just … Continue reading

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Take back the Web!

Or at least the dot-org part of it. Over last 5 or so years, ICANN has allowed, without any struggle, the Domain Name System to be dominated by large corporations who use it to enforce, some would say in a … Continue reading

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Mark Pilgrim Continues to Drop Science

I know I cited his pages a few days ago but, it just keeps getting better. I feel like an idiot. Mr. Pilgrim is writing about the gritty aspects of improving web accessibility much better than I ever could. Please, … Continue reading

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Nanotech–a cakewalk for piracy? And stupid CSS tricks!

Accessibility: Google adds keyboard accessibility to their interface. In an accessibility setback, naive page designers are incorrectly using CSS to replace of semantically correct markup. I myself complained about related CSS risks over a year ago. Security: No, you are … Continue reading

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Accessibility technology

A researcher over in the University of Maryland dismisses claims that voice input will be the interface of the future. With the release of OS X, Apple begins to take accessibility seriously again. And, Farlops updates his article about accesskey. … Continue reading

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Factory Floor is One Year and Three Days Old

I guess I should mark this occasion: One year of using the Greymatter script. Before, Factory Floor was just a vague way of referring to the site’s root page without saying, “home page.” Before, Factory Floor was just a site … Continue reading

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Yes, I know it's late

Macromedia is planning an evangelizing tour to tout the new accessibility features of Flash MX. Considering the legions of Flash designers out there that probably may never learn how to design Flash objects accessibly one wonders if an upgrade and … Continue reading

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The W3C Rejects RAND!

The World Wide Web Consortium today rejected the RAND proposal I spoke of here a few months ago. This means that key Web protocols, standards and technologies will remain royalty free and open for all users. The little folks win … Continue reading

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