Monthly Archives: March 2005

A quick way to test accessibility

Keyword: . I’m hugely grateful to Niel Eyde for his post highlighting two great tools for testing the accessibility of your website – one for Internet Explorer and one for Firefox. On first use it seems a very quick way to see what needs improving about your website to make it more accessible – including spotting images missing alt tags, missing coding, and colour blindness. With these to hand there really is no excuse.

Digital Storytelling

Keyword: . Thanks to Simone Dixon for pointing out this great webpage about Digital Storytelling. The main body provides a framework for analysing interactive journalism – but there’s also dozens of great examples and resources – with a forum for discussion which also contains some useful links. For those with an academic bent the research page looks invaluable.

The Devaluation of Information

Keyword: . Well-informed musings on the changing economic value of information in an online world – aptly sites on citizen journalist site OhMyNews. Some very interesting examples of different tactics that publishers have employed to make money from their content, and one quote in particular that sticks out: “If, for example, the penultimate value is influence, it would be wise to make the content free and permanent.”