I’ve just gotten back from a great day at the Stackoverflow Dev Day, I didn’t take my usual copious notes, but I thought a flavour of proceedings would be good to get down. For those who don’t know me, I have to add the caveat that I’m not a…

John Gruber recently expounded on the problems with click through, which put simply: is when you click a control on a window / application that’s in the background, it works. This is something that ‘got me’ when I started using Macs (that generally don’t allow click through), as it…

I’ve seen a few articles recently about Google’s Chrome browser market share, some sites seem to have had quite a lot of visits from people using Chrome, which then fell off again. However, these sort of stats are probably missing the point, what sites is it that people are most likely to use Chrome on?

VoiceOver has undergone a major update, this article looks at the new functions, and what that means for people browsing websites. I am not looking at VoiceOver in general, just how different aspects of web pages affect the experience when using VoiceOver.

There were quite a few updates to the VoiceOver screen reader on OSX Leopard, not least of which was the new, very smooth voice “Alex”. What will be of interest to developers is the new commands to help people navigate HTML.

I attend my first Microsoft (MS) oriented user group meeting yesterday, the SharePoint User Group on search and accessibility. Unfortunately our developers werre either too busy or on holiday, so I got volunteered.

Mark Pilgrim had linked to “A Cost Analysis of Windows Vista Content Protection” by Peter Gutmann, but until I heard people talking about it on a podcast, it really hadn’t clicked as to why The Vista Content Protection specification could very well constitute the longest suicide note in history.

Voiceover (the screen reader for Apple’s OSX) is often left out when people refer to screen readers. However, there are a few reasons to pay attention to Voiceover…

One of my favourite podcasts is LUGradio, one of their priorities is that any software they use should be open source. I am more worried about open formats, and posts from Mark Pilgrim and Tim Bray spurred me into planning a change of Operating System…

With help from the Exim user’s list, I’ve prevented the constant annoyance of many domain owners: bounces from spam pretending to be from your domain! If you suffer from spam-bounces and use Debian & Exim, this may be the answer you are looking for.