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Entries from October 2006

BBC praises Flash accessiblity

October 28th, 2006 · No Comments

BBC article mentioning Flash and JK Rowling

As part of a well written piece about web accessibility I was very pleased to see the BBC identifying something that everyone needs to be made aware of. Far too often so called ‘experts’ say using Flash is a complete waste of time in terms of accessibility, unfairly criticising the technology.

In the short article the BBC identify how Flash can be used in a really positive way to make things more accessible.

Designing a more accessible web

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The nightmares of Internet Explorer 7 installation

October 18th, 2006 · 6 Comments

Are you sure?  No I'm not!
The furore that stood for my (and other’s) attempts to install and uninstall Internet Explorer beta 2 back in April is well documented - see this post. I consequently held off installing Beta 3, simply because I didn’t have the heart to tackle all the problems again. However, with the impending ‘urgent’ automatic installations of Internet Explorer 7 via Windows Update which are expected some time this month, I thought I’d get things over with.

What follows are a few images that show the ‘progress’ of the installation. If this all sounds a bit too pointless and pathetic, well - possibly true - but then you must have missed my joys at Beta 2. :(

With no further ado, the installation of Internet Explorer 7 RC1….

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