http://www.cheryllambert.com/ohlone/blogs/webteam Updates and information from the Web Team at Ohlone College. Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:31:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en WebAnywhere is a web-based screen reader for the web. It requires no special software to be installed on the client machine and, therefore, enables blind people to access the web from any computer they happen to have access to that has a sound card. I tried using the WebAnywhere Alpha Release ... http://www.cheryllambert.com/ohlone/blogs/webteam/index.php/2008/07/01/webanywhere-a-web-based-screen-reader/ The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1) recommendations by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) are vague in some areas. An indepdendent group of developers, the WCAG Samurai, has created an errata (or "corrections" - which I think of as "clarifications") for WCAG 1 using direct language such as ... http://www.cheryllambert.com/ohlone/blogs/webteam/index.php/2008/03/06/wcag-samurai-errata-clarifications-for-wcag-10-not-related-to-wai/ http://www.htmlkit.com/services/favicon/ http://www.cheryllambert.com/ohlone/blogs/webteam/index.php/2008/03/06/nice-faviconico-generator-by-htmlkit/ This is the INVALID code to embed a Picasa slideshow on your web page (<embed> is invalid): <embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="288" height="192" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fohlonecollegephotos%2Falbumid%2F5162154032057469201%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></embed> And, here is the VALID XHTML equivalent for the same slideshow as referenced above (using the <object> tag): <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" data="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="288" height="192"> <param name="movie" value="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" /> <param name="flashvars" value="host=picasaweb.google.com&RGB=0x000000&feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fohlonecollegephotos%2Falbumid%2F5162154032057469201%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss" /> <param name="pluginspage" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" /> </object> And here is the slideshow! Slideshow of photos ... http://www.cheryllambert.com/ohlone/blogs/webteam/index.php/2008/02/11/valid-xhtml-for-picasa-slideshow/ A list of colleges using social networking websites such as Facebook, MySpace, Ning, YouTube, etc.: eduStyle - Social Sites http://www.cheryllambert.com/ohlone/blogs/webteam/index.php/2008/02/11/list-of-colleges-using-social-network-websites/ Using a valid <object> tag is apparently complex. Here are some solutions. Your mileage may vary. Valid XHTML YouTube embed code generator - "This free tool will create a valid XHTML embed code for any YouTube video. The code YouTube shows on the embed field is not valid XHTML! However, you ... http://www.cheryllambert.com/ohlone/blogs/webteam/index.php/2008/02/11/valid-tag-in-html/ http://wikivid.com/ Tutorials for Dreamweaver: http://wikivid.com/index.php/Dreamweaver http://www.cheryllambert.com/ohlone/blogs/webteam/index.php/2008/02/11/wikivid-online-tutorials-for-software-and-more/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2006/11/09/online-generators/ http://www.cheryllambert.com/ohlone/blogs/webteam/index.php/2008/02/11/list-of-online-generations-for-color-css-favicon-forms-graphics-and-more/