Overview of content related to 'accessibility'
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Accessibility is a general term used to describe the degree to which a product, device, service, or environment is available to as many people as possible. Accessibility can be viewed as the "ability to access" and possible benefit of some system or entity. Accessibility is often used to focus on people with disabilities or special needs and their right of access to entities, often through use of assistive technology. Accessibility is often abbreviated to the numeronym a11y, where the number 11 refers to the number of letters omitted. This parallels the abbreviations of internationalization and localization as i18n and l10n respectively. (Excerpt from Wikipedia article: Accessibility)
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Web Focus: The Web on Your TV |
Brian Kelly takes a look at a digital TV box which provides Web and email access in your living room. |
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Book Review: Net Effects |
Grant Young reviews a compilation of articles showcasing librarians' efforts to wrest control of new technologies and reassert some traditional values. |
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Seeing Is Believing: The JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme |
Chris Awre reviews the JISC Information Environment Presentation Programme and offers an insight to the outcomes of recent studies. |
April 2004, issue39, feature article |
News from BIOME |
Jenny Hall reports on recent news from BIOME, the Health and Life Sciences hub of the Resource Discovery Network. |
April 2004, issue39, regular column |
The Collection Description Schema Forum |
Gordon Dunsire describes the one-day seminar on standard schemas for collection-level description held by UKOLN in February. |
April 2004, issue39, event report |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 38: The Quality of Metadata Is Not Strained |
Richard Waller introduces Ariadne issue 38. |
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The JISC 5/99 Programme: What's in a Number? |
Rachel Bruce and Balviar Notay give an overview of the outputs and influences of the JISC 5/99 Learning and Teaching and Infrastructure Programme. |
January 2004, issue38, feature article |
WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites? |
Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites. |
January 2004, issue38, regular column |
Developing and Publicising a Workable Accessibility Strategy |
Lawrie Phipps, Sue Harrison, David Sloan and Betty Willder look at the increasing need for developers of institutional and educational Web sites to develop and follow a strategy for ensuring optimal accessibility of online content. |
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Herding Tigers, Part II |
Sophie Clarke describes an event designed to share ideas on accessibility, evaluation and the use of learning technology standards. |
January 2004, issue38, event report |
Unicode and Historic Scripts |
Deborah Anderson provides us an overview of the progress made in bringing historic scripts to the Unicode Standard. |
October 2003, issue37, feature article |
News from BIOME |
Donald Mackay reports on BIOME participation in a major project to enhance interoperability between the BIOME core database and those projected by LTSN Subject Centres. |
October 2003, issue37, regular column |
OAI: The Fourth Open Archives Forum Workshop |
Manjula Patel provides us with an overview of the 4th Open Archives Forum Workshop. |
October 2003, issue37, event report |
Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2003, issue37, news and events |
An IMS Generator for the Masses |
Kelvin Hai, David Palmer and Chris Dunlop of the MARTINI Project describe the architecture and operation of the Project-developed IMS Generator and show how its flexibility allows it to handle the diverse nature of data held by institutions. |
July 2003, issue36, feature article |
Planet SOSIG |
Debra Hiom highlights some new events, publications and services in the social sciences and Andy Hargrave introduces recent developments for FE in the Bized Service. |
July 2003, issue36, regular column |
EEVL News and Enhancements |
Roddy MacLeod and Lesa Ng provide us with the news and developments from EEVL. |
July 2003, issue36, regular column |
Web Focus: WWW 2003 Trip Report |
Brian Kelly writes on the recent WWW 2003 conference and outlines some of the latest Web developments. |
July 2003, issue36, regular column |
The 7th Institutional Web Management Workshop |
Catherine Ewart gives us her view of IWMW 2003, University of Kent, June 2003. |
July 2003, issue36, event report |
Mandated Online RAE CVs Linked to University Eprint Archives: Enhancing UK Research Impact and Assessment |
Stevan Harnad, Les Carr, Tim Brody and Charles Oppenheim make a case for maximising the advantages and the UK's pre-eminence in the Research Assessment Exercise. |
April 2003, issue35, feature article |
Exposing Information Resources for E-learning |
Steve Richardson and Andy Powell on Harvesting and searching IMS metadata using both the OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting, and the Z39.50 Protocol. |
January 2003, issue34, feature article |
Public Libraries: Creating Websites for E-citizens -The Public Library Web Managers Workshop 2002 |
Penny Garrod reports on the Public Library Web Managers workshop, November 2002, held in Bath. |
January 2003, issue34, event report |
Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools |
Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality. |
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Book Review: The Library and Information Professional's Guide to Plug-ins and Other Web Browser Tools |
Book review by Ruth Martin. |
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Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
January 2003, issue34, news and events |
Utilizing E-books to Enhance Digital Library Offerings |
Shirley Hyatt and Lynn Silipigni Connaway, describe the rationale and background of OCLC's acquisition of netLibrary, the information environment that is being pursued, and the resulting benefits that libraries may experience. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Climbing the Scholarly Publishing Mountain With SHERPA |
John MacColl and Stephen Pinfield explore the SHERPA project, which is concentrating on making e-prints available online. |
October 2002, issue33, feature article |
Web Focus: Let's Get Serious about HTML Standards |
Brian Kelly encourages authors to treat compliance with HTML standards seriously. |
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Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points |
Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites. |
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Newsline: News You Can Use |
Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events. |
October 2002, issue33, news and events |
Learning Objects and the Information Environment |
Ian Dolphin and Paul Miller discuss the place of Learning Objects in the wider environment of learning. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
QA Focus |
Marieke Napier on Quality Assurance procedures in the Jisc 5/99 Programme. |
July 2002, issue32, feature article |
Web Focus: Report On The Sixth Institutional Web Management Workshop |
Brian Kelly with a report on the Sixth Institutional International Web Management Workshop held this year at the University of Strathclyde. |
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Setting up an Institutional E-Print Archive |
Stephen Pinfield, Mike Gardner, and John MacColl with some practical advice on setting up an e-print archive. |
April 2002, issue31, feature article |
Editorial Introduction to Issue 30: Centering the Periphery - A New Equity in Information Access? |
Philip Hunter introduces Ariadne issue 30. |
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Content Management Systems: Who Needs Them? |
Paul Browning and Mike Lowndes explore the CMS concept and look at the available tools. |
January 2002, issue30, feature article |
Public Libraries |
Penny Garrod's first outing in Ariadne as Public Libraries Focus. |
January 2002, issue30, regular column |
Development of Digital Libraries for Blind and Visually Impaired People |
Jennie Craven reports on the IFLA/SLB conference in Washington in August 2001. |
January 2002, issue30, event report |
The People's Network and the Learning Revolution: Building the NOF Digitize Programme |
Susi Woodhouse brings us up to date with developments. |
October 2001, issue29, feature article |
Web Watch: Carrying Out Your Own Web Watch Survey |
Brian Kelly describes how you can carry out your own WebWatch benchmarking survey across your own community. |