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Accessibility 2.0: a million flowers bloom

AbilityNet are holding an Accessibility 2.0 event later this week. Accessibility 2.0 will be a practical conference focussing on web accessibility in a Web 2.0 world, and looking at practical solutions to making the modern web a more inclusive and accessible place for all.

On the event webpage you can listen to a podcast or download a transcript with conference host Robin Christopherson, Head of Accessibility Services with AbilityNet discussing Web 2.0. He talks about some of the barriers encountered from a users perpective with some modern social networking websites and also the hopes with innovation the future.
Excerpt from the site -

“Being blind I’m honestly a bit worried what Web 2.0 will mean for me and my access to websites and web apps in the coming months and years. If accessibility isn’t foremost in everyone’s minds I’m afraid I’ll actually have less choice in what I can access, and that I’ll find surfing more difficult in general. Faced with inaccessible sites, those sites that do it well will have my custom for sure.”

Find out more about the event and to listen to the podcast at Accessibility 2.0.

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Google releases it’s Social Graph API

Google has released it’s new API (Application Programming Interface) graphing publicly available social connections on the web.
You can see more about the Social Graph API for developers or have a go at looking up your own public profiles and see who is connected to you at the Social Graph - My connections demo page.

(Want to understand more about what how API’s work? Last autumn, I discovered this simple explanatory video by Matt Dickman which is a great introduction for non-geeks into API’s.)

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31 Days to a Better Blog - Day 9: Advertising on your site…how can this work for non-profits?

Today’s challenge by Prologger Darren Rowse was to run an advertising audit on your blog. Like many of the rest of us taking part in the challenge (see here for background information as to what it is about), it possibly isn’t relevant to the types of blogs involved in this challenge and to our aimed readership.

Saying that though, I have had two requests for support from non-profits this week alone, about advertising on their websites to help bring in some extra income. One wanted to explore the idea of ’sympathetic’ advertising using other national organisations with helplines that may help some of the users of their youth orientated website. Another just wanted to understand how advertising worked and could they have a go at it. I personally don’t want advertising on my own site, and I know that on one of the forums I connect with, that advertising was frowned upon at first by the users and it did create some great debate, but it did lever extra monies to enable it to keep afloat in it’s early days, and now their project is being supported enough not to rely on advertising. So instead of totally discounting it, how can we explore if it does have any relevance for non profits and charities?

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HBO’s amazing new multimedia project

The HBO Voyeur Project is an amazing new multimedia example and experience that just shows what can be achieved, with good design, good audio and a theme that certainly captures your imagination. It's set in New York and tells a story behind each of the windows of various parts of town.

You can delve deeper into learning about the characters and the blog of understanding what its all about at The Story Gets Deeper, and find out more about the project at HBO's main site.

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