Nils T. Devine

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Tuesday, March 29, 2005

Accessible Information Solutions - Colour Contrast Analyser
National Information and Library Service (NILS) made a little windows app that runs selected (or manual input) HEX values through the W3C's color brightness and color difference algorithms. Given my usual lack of subtleness I don't generally run into this problem, but I have a freelance client especially concerned with readability, so it'll be nice to have a tool to back up my work.
Access Matters
A SimpleQuiz variation, with real world accessibility application questions. The structure is based on the guidelines, and the answers look like they're going to take actual screen reader behavior into account.

Friday, March 25, 2005

'A New Bunny'
shove this up your pipe and smoke it Bugs. so heavily censored, when phrases like "sodomizing" and "man yogurt" come through un-bleeped they're hilarious. a perfect example of the ridiculousness of the 7 dirty words.

Thursday, March 24, 2005

Joshuaink: Creating a site schematic
starting on a new freelance project, i'll be doing a site schematic this weekend. looks like i've got some further reading to do, not sure i like the example he gave, feels overly-designed and has way too many criss-crossing lines.
Printable trail maps
LA Times trail maps. Thanks Josh.
Planearium
version 2 of the south park generator. we used the first one to make advoy park, but jon and i had to do some photoshop/fireworks touch up.

Wednesday, March 23, 2005

ObjectGraph Dictionary
and here's a working demo based on Google Suggest with code that looks readily picked apart.

Tuesday, March 22, 2005

Chris Justus - Server Side Guy: Google Suggest Dissected...
here it is. he re-wrote it, un-compressing the indentation and re-factoring all the variable/function names. now we've just gotta integrate it with the app.
Life With Alacrity: Google Suggest Dissected
we're going to have to do something like this for an interface at work, the list of people is just too long to handle otherwise. haven't read it yet and i'm just about out the door, but it looks like this blog entry has good links to how google suggest works.

Friday, March 18, 2005

Hanzi Smatter
Dedicated to the misuse of Chinese characters (Hanzi or Kanji) in Western culture. Note to self: send in picture of grayscale gradient shirt. The calligraphy is too abstract for Sarah here at work to read.

Tuesday, March 15, 2005

The Fade Anything Technique
I haven't explored the code yet, josh says it requires elements to have an id as well as a class which seems overkill. Once you've gotten everything with class="fade" it seems like you should be able to access individual items as you would an array: getElementByClassName("fade")[0]. Anyway, this guy's site will be worth exploring at some point.

Wednesday, March 09, 2005

Usable XMLHttpRequest in Practice | Baekdal.com
a good article with a handy little list to check your Ajax interface to make sure it's as usable as a normal form.

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