I was re-watching Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin a while back and noticed the animators set the bodies in newspapers in Lorem ipsum as filler text. Lorem ispum is a placeholder or filler text used in typography, design and other publishing as means of testing the visual representation. Lorem ipsum features roughly the same letter […]
Monthly Archives: June 2008
A few weeks back I had the chance to page gently through an old German Lutheran bible from the mid 18th century. I used the opportunity, quickly filling my camera’s SD card with photos of the bible and other things from my friend’s collection.
I noted I was thinking of starting a photoblog for many of these […]
Giving links purpose such that they can be understood when read out of context—a feature many screen readers offer—has long been an accessibility recommendation. It’s comes as part of many accessibility guidelines, including W3C’s WCAG 1.0 and of course also remains part of WCAG 2.0 (§ 2.4).
A common mistake in thinking when approaching accessibility is that […]
LugRadio recently featured a section on “community” in their latest episode—Finding Emo—discussing how many individuals and companies alike endeavor to form communities around their projects and products, and how in the end many of these fail. In particular with Jono Bacon on team it is a noteworthy listen (segment starts at approx. 27:00). I think […]