It is that time of year again: SXSWi panel pimpage! I’ve put together a somewhat vague panel proposal on behalf of microformats.org and I would appreciate it if you could give it a vote. Apparently voting only counts towards a relatively small percentage (30%) of whether or not it will be selected, but with 2346 [...]
For Science Hack Day, I have have been thinking about a topic that was of great interest to me whilst I was at university – artificial intelligence. Science Hack Day hasn’t actually happened yet, by the way. It’s going on this weekend (19th & 20th June) at the Guardian offices, and there’s still time to [...]
What is Microdata? Microdata is HTML5′s answer to how we should go about embedding machine-readable data in our mark-up.
I recently had the job of letting the microformats community know that the BBC were having to drop hCalendar due to accessibility concerns surrounding the use of abbr and the date-time pattern. My friend and colleague Jake Archibald published a summary of what’s happened so far, what the current alternative suggestions are and the BBC’s [...]
Are you a screen reader user, or know someone who is? Want to contribute to making the Beeb a more accessible place? The BBC is looking for people to let them know what screen reader users hear when they visit the new Programmes pages, which just happen to contain the ever controversial abbreviation design pattern [...]
