Flash Indexing

July 1, 2008

As a previously scheduled post on accessibility and indexability went live, a few folks pointed me to some news on searchable/indexable swfs. A few of the articles I checked out: Google Now Crawling and Indexing Flash Content Improved Flash Indexing (Official Google Webmaster Central Blog) SWF searchability FAQ

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what’s the deal with… findability, searchability, indexability and accessibility?

July 1, 2008

As a front-end web developer, I often hear the terms “findable”, “searchable”, “indexable” and “accessible” thrown around interchangeably. For many, they mean that the content can be accessed by a non-human, be it a screen reader or a search engine spider. On some level this is true, but there are several significant differences that are [...]

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Making RIAs Accessible

May 5, 2008

My topic suggestion for Spring <br /> has been accepted. On June 3rd, I’ll be presenting the following: Topic: Making RIAs AccessibleDescription: Rich Internet Applications offer the site visitor a more interactive, engaging experience. But can this richness be conveyed to a user of assistive technologies, and how? This session will differentiate between DOM-based (AJAX) [...]

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Tagclouds

March 10, 2008

A tagcloud is a common element on web2.0 sites. This alternative navigational element not only gives users a view into the site contents, it offers a visual representation of the most commonly used terms to describe said contents. But just like other neat-o web2.0 effects, whenever I hear “we need {xyz feature}”, I find myself [...]

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More Questions than Answers (Rich Internet Application Accessibility)

January 13, 2008

Ah, the fun part of a research project: when you know just enough to be dangerous… Trying to figure out the scope for my capstone, I’ve done some reading on WAI-ARIA, which seems to focus on helping making AJAXy-applications accessible via roles and states. However, we really work more with flash and flex at work, [...]

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Capstone time

January 13, 2008

Graduation is scheduled for May 11, 2008.. now I just have to complete my capstone project and I’ll be the proud holder of a Masters of Computer Science degree. Up until last trimester, the capstone was like a thesis: the student selected a topic, found an advisor and did self-directed study. They recently changed the [...]

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What is Flash Support? (and Can Someone Tell Nintendo?)

November 27, 2007

Today I threw down my 500 Wii points for the internet channel, in anticipation of being able to watch streaming video on my tv. The wii uses opera as a browser, with flash and ajax support. Sweet! ..until I went to www.pcavote.com and saw a big box stating that express install wasn’t working correctly. Over [...]

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Google “optimizing for mobile”

September 21, 2007

Lately I’ve been doing some reading on mobile apps. I came across a review for Cameron Moll’s Mobile Web Book on 456 Berea Street and then today I stumbled upon an article on “How to make any website a mobile site, with google. The results are pretty interesting! It’s interesting to see how the People’s [...]

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Influence Hollywood at People’s Choice!

September 20, 2007

I am VERY excited to announce that the redesign of www.pcavote.com went live! This is the project I’ve been working on since starting at Resource at the end of June. I’ve learned so much through working on it, but I wanted to reserve comment until it went live. So here it is– I really enjoyed [...]

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Road to Flex Certification

September 7, 2007

I took the Java 2 Developers Exam back in 2003, the same month I finished my coursework for my Bachelor’s degree in Digital Communication. I’d taken several courses in java (the language itself as well as client-server programming), purchased a certification prep guide, and went for it! I passed, got my sheet of paper and [...]

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