Imagine you’ve got a legacy WordPress site built using one of those drag/drop themes. Now complicate it by having a chunk of content created by a non-standard javascript-based slider plugin. Continue to imagine you have a very, very short window of time to bring it up to WCAG2.0 accessibility standards.1 Child themes aren’t a viable […]
Year: 2017
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-09-24
BBC – Future – The deadly germ warfare island abandoned by the Soviets A year later, the corpses of two missing fishermen were found nearby, drifting in their boat. It’s thought that they had caught the plague. Not long afterwards, locals started landing whole nets of dead fish. No one knows why. Then in May […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-09-17
Cloudstitch These Amazon Reviews Of “Mr Men” Books Are A Triumph Of Literary Criticism h/t M. R. Trump’s blocking of Twitter users violates U.S. Constitution: rights institute A free-speech institute on Tuesday sent a letter to President Donald Trump demanding the prolific tweeter unblock certain Twitter (TWTR.N) users on grounds the practice violates the First […]
Will Blackboard Eat It?
I have1 a number of preconceptions about ol’ Blackboard . . . I figured, like Mikey, Bb wouldn’t eat anything2 and I enviously watched Keegan and others play in the Eden that is Canvas. I decide the other day that I needed to just pry at the edges of Bb and see what I could […]
Add New Mime Type to WordPress Multisite
In WordPress multisite there is a set of allowed file extensions that can be found at Settings>Network Settings in the “Upload File Types” field. You can add to this list but what isn’t necessarily apparent is that if the extension isn’t already part of the list here1 then you can add extensions all day and […]
Email Templates in GMail
Another quick and easy option if you end up sending similar patterns of responses via email. We also use a more aggressive option that uses form submissions etc. but this one doesn’t require anything more than GMail account. […]
Auto-Built (and Linking) Table of Contents in Google Docs
I did a workshop on productivity and now know that I took a bunch of knowledge for granted that could be helping people. So my new goal is to do a better job documenting stuff just in case it’s of use to people. To be clear, I don’t really care what people do with the […]
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Weekly Web Harvest for 2017-09-10
I Can’t Get Google – YouTube think about this sometime you assume people have some shared understanding of the Internet Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript? The worst part about pushing the “know everything” mentality is that we end up creating an industry full of professionals suffering from burnout and mental […]
Working on Accessibility
Bean with Tools on the Ocean of Storms flickr photo by NASA on The Commons shared with no copyright restriction (Flickr Commons) We’re taking a much deeper dive into accessibility lately. It is a fruitful and good thing to do but also one of those deceptively deep topics with lots of complications. As a result […]
Correct Names in Comments
We had some trouble with the selected display name not showing up correctly in comments. It worked fine in themes which displayed post and page authors but comments was often incorrect. That wasn’t good from a user experience perspective and also concerned me a bit in terms of what students might expect to be showing […]