Bugger, looks like the meme’s are starting again, and I’ve got tagged already! thanks to Jack!
okay here goes:
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We weren’t going to go, we had decided not to, in fact it had never entered our minds to go. But now we are!
Why? well a few weeks ago my other ‘alf was approached by Bernard The Cunning Artificer to design the website for the event. After various technical difficulties the site is now live. But don’t just look at the site, why not join in the fun and come along to the event!
All details can be found on the Discworld Jamboree site.
After signing up for several years of servitude for the Discworld Convention 2008 I have now visited the hotel where it will take place. The Hilton Metropole has some interesting selling points, though perhaps the most important is that the main room will be able accommodate all attendees.
Although we are still in the early days of planning, things are definitely on the move.
It should be easy as there are many about, but it hasn’t been.
I had narrowed the choice down, and even asked for help, but in the end I decided to actually install some of the locally and see how well they did. For a few of the others I used an online demo instead.
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This is how Mel initially wrote about it:
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The DRC have, according to Ouch!, started to use a service provided by Wordbank.
It seems strange that the DRC promote accessibility, including Web accessibility and yet employ the services of a company that flout the guidelines! they may display a W3C WAI AA WCAG 1.0 Logo but thier site leaves a lot to be desired. They are using invalid mark-up, tables for layout, an imperfect flash implementation, and possibly more.
What hope have we got when a prime force in web accessibility doesn’t follow the standards, I feel that the DRC have made a grave mistake.
