Ohlone College Web Team Blog

Ah ha! A server-based way to hide email addresses from harvesting robots! Uses Apache 2, mod_rewrite, PHP 4 or later.

Graceful E-Mail Obfuscation, by Roel Van Gils, A List Apart, November 6, 2007.

Contact your web server administrator or use .htaccess.

List of helpful links to make your Flash movies accessible - very important especially for higher education and government institutions!

• WebAIM - Creating Accessible Flash Content
  • Creating Accessible Macromedia Flash Content
  • Creating Text Equivalents for Flash Content
  • Keyboard Accessibility and Reading Order
  • Flash Accessibility Techniques and Considerations
• Flash Help (inside your Flash application) > Flash Tutorials > Basic Tasks: Create Accessible Flash Content
  • Make your document accessible to screen readers
  • Provide a document title and description
  • Provide a title and description for instances
  • Specify that screen readers ignore elements in your document
  • Change static text to dynamic text for accessibility
  • Control the tab order and reading order
• Flash Help (inside your Flash application) > Using Flash > Creating Accessible Flash Content
  • Worldwide accessibility standards
  • Macromedia Flash Accessibility web page
  • Understanding screen reader technology
  • Using Flash to enter accessibility information for screen readers
  • Viewing and creating tab order and reading order
  • About animation and accessibility for the visually impaired
  • Using accessible components
  • Creating accessibility with ActionScript
  • Accessibility for hearing-impaired users
  • Testing accessible content

All about Google for webmasters and web designers:

www.feedthebot.com - How to follow the Google Webmaster Guidelines (not affiliated with Google)

Mike Davidson explains how to create an attractive design for a MySpace profile in Hacking A More Tasteful MySpace.

• Stock Xchng (as in “stock exchange”)
• Wikimedia Commons (a database of 902,995 media files to which anyone can contribute)
• The Library of Congress >> Prints & Photographs Division >> Prints & Photographs Online Catalog