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 […]
Category Archives: Web Dev
Microformats, the BBC and friends
July 7, 2008 – 12:46 pm
Women of the web
May 23, 2008 – 1:02 pm
Yet again the subject of women in our industry has reared its head and yet again I find myself basically fuming. Why exactly do we keep rehashing this discussion? Can’t we just get over it, already?
Okay, first things first - I realise there’s a wider discussion about women in any industry, and specifically […]
The BBC needs you!
May 16, 2008 – 3:27 pm
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 […]
Microformats vEvent and London Web Week
April 3, 2008 – 3:01 pm
I mentioned at the start of the year that we were planning to have another “Microformat vEvent” in the first quarter… well, slightly later than planned I’m pleased to announce that we’re good to go and you can now sign up!
The event has been delayed so that we could take part in a new grander […]
SemanticCamp London
February 18, 2008 – 12:15 pm
I went to one day* of SemanticCamp this weekend at Imperial College in London. It was really enjoyable and it was great to see so many people show up and take part. Kudos to Tom Morris and Daniel John Lewis for their organisational skills.
Ben Ward and I represented microformats.org and did a presentation-ish […]
