Institutional Knowledge

Yesterday we launched a refresh of the online Campus Directory as apart of our efforts to remediate websites that are not accessible. The update looks more or less the same visually, but there’s much more exciting stuff happening under the hood including a sprinkling of the hCard Microformat where applicable.

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Years ago in an interview I was asked how I would solve the university’s web consistency problem. At the time, the thought was “good luck!” In an environment with a decentralized web site, it seemed unlikely that content management would happen. That question has been asked once again, but now we’re in a better position […]

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When the university gets around to redesigning the campus web presence, it will need to meet the following goals:

Accessible
Manageable
Usable
Findable
Flexible

If implemented properly, Web Content Management would be a great tool for making inroads toward achieving the first three: accessibility, web document management, and usability.

By placing the onus for accessible templates in the hands of developers who […]

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This week, Web Application Development introduced a new and improved service to campus, Chico State Search. Built upon the Google Custom Search product, the new search page offers greater control over the templates for accessibility as well as the opportunity to glean information that will help improve results and information findability. Go give the new […]

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This is hardly new information, but it’s clear that it bears repeating. Every finals week we see a surge in the number of Google hits for our posts with “Finals Week” in the title and header tags. Unfortunately we don’t have the information people are looking for. We did go back and […]

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A very subtle change occurred on campus today. No, it wasn’t the mysterious JunkMail Digests that appeared in our inbox, rather a step forward toward a better future.

At the request of Public Affairs, we updated the Public Facilities page. With the ATI we’ve been cleaning up some of the pages on the campus web server […]

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For those who missed it or were unable to attend, You can view the slides from Accessibility Evaluation of Next Generation Web Applications.

I was glad to see that someone used S5 and gave a link to the slides. The best tidbit that I took away from this session was that WebAIM’s Wave 4.0 (when released) […]

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The Accessibility Experience

The power of the web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect - Tim Berners-Lee

The presentation by representatives from the User Experience Team at Google was a very insightful look into how they’re approaching accessibility.

Accessibility is more than just code compliance

Google is spending a fair […]

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Evolution of Firefox Accessibility provided some excellent insight into how the Mozilla Foundation is working to make Firefox accessible for those will all different types of disabilities. I was blown away at how many grants had been given to various individuals to work on accessibly for different components of Firefox.

One of the best resources that […]

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People dress up a lot nicer at CSUN than SXSW
If you’re going to host a conference, involving technology, provide free wi-fi

Wi-fi with a Signal to Noise Ratio of 1 == LTO

If you’re presenting…

Rehearse, rehearse, rehearse
Make your slides available online and list the URL at the end of your presentation
Less is more when it comes to […]

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