What happens to your website when disaster strikes? Do you have a plan? I remember the first time we discussed this here at the University of Texas at Austin. As usual…our group saw the humorous side. “Ya know, if Austin was a smoking hole in the ground,
X Marks the Spot
What options are available to provide location specific information to visitors in museums? And how do these options compare? If you had to make a decision today, what technology would you choose? Well, it would depend on your objective and your budget.
As I’ve pondered these questions, I’ve come up with a list of what I consider to be the viable location sensing options today. This topic must be revisted at least once a year (preferably every 6 months) as the technology is changing quickly.
Google Map Pedometer
Cool discovery of the week = Google Map Pedometer
Inspirability
Oooh that smell
We get some interesting project requests working at a research university. When I first heard about the “Stink Projector” or “Fart Locator”, I’ll admit I fell over laughing. Okay, okay, so the official name of the project was NOT the “Stink Projector” or the “Fart Locator” but the Trajectory Analysis Tool.
Automania
A recent post by the marvelous Molly got me to thinking. What is my favorite automobile? You know, the one that makes my head turn when it drives by and my heart beat a little bit faster. So, I’m imagining I just won a prize labeled “Free automobile of my choice“. What would I choose?… Continue reading Automania
UT Mobile
Imagine you are a college student at the University of Texas at Austin (or perhaps you really are). Your mobile phone is as important to you as air. You can communicate faster using SMS than making a voice call. You have started surfing the web using your phone and recently discovered that UT is developing… Continue reading UT Mobile
Validity – Yummy & Nutritious
Naively, I used to believe that making your site accessible and valid were just “no brainers”. However, my experience over the past few months has taught me that there are just enough conflicts between Valid HTML and Accessibility to make this quite a challenge.
Let me be 100% clear, that when forced to choose between accessibility and validity, I choose accessibility. No question. But that is my short-term answer. My long-term answer is…let’s get accessibility and validity to agree!
I really resonate with the mission of all of those who are working on web standards. When asked this week to explain why valid HTML was important, I responded: