Over the last several decades, scholars have developed standards for how best to create, organize, present, and preserve digital information so that future generations of teachers, students, scholars, and librarians may still use it.
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Chapter 6 – Accessibility – Digital Humanities – A Primer
What is accessibility? Could it be as simple as saying, it’s the ability to access, and everything that entails? Definitions are often some of the most difficult things to, well, define.
https://carletonu.pressbooks.pub/digh5000/chapter/chapter-6-accessibility-and-design/
Chapter 12: Disability, Universal Design, and the Digital Humanities | George H. Williams
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Why is it So Difficult to Define New Media Art ?
To define new media art is almost as difficult as to define art.
The Role of Nongovernmental Organizations (NGOs) in Human Rights Advocacy
Many organizations around the world dedicate their efforts to protecting human rights and ending human rights abuses. Major human rights organizations maintain extensive websites documenting violations and calling for remedial action, both at a governmental and grass-roots level.
https://www.humanrights.com/voices-for-human-rights/human-rights-organizations/non-governmental.html
Living Writers Series brings variety of creators to campus
This fall’s Living Writers Series at SUNY Oswego will feature speakers who craft poetry, novels, graphic novels, short stories, songs, plays and screenplays — and even exposed the water crisis in Flint, Michigan. All talks will take place from 3 to 4:20 p.m.
https://www.oswego.edu/news/story/living-writers-series-brings-variety-creators-campus
Subtitle Guidelines
Subtitles are primarily intended to serve viewers with loss of hearing, but they are used by a wide range of people: around 10% of broadcast viewers use subtitles regularly, increasing to 35% for some online content. The majority of these viewers are not hard of hearing.
“Graffiti is art” appeal continues in the 2nd Circuit
Apparently (some) federal judges have bought into the argument that spraying aerosol on walls is art, or hell, not just art, but art blessed and protected by the 1990 Visual Artists Rights Act.
http://clancco.com/wp/2019/09/graffiti-is-art-appeal-continues-in-the-2nd-circuit/
Our new expression.
As we evolve to meet beautifully diverse customers all over the world, our brand has evolved too. Here we introduce a fresh new design system that maintains the core elements of our brand while keeping our customers’ experience central to creative expression.
Fontstand — try fonts for free or rent them
Just Another Foundry 11 families 161 fonts Sandoll Communications 4 families 30 fonts House Industries 24 families 25 fonts Mark Simonson Studio 29 families 195 fonts PampaType 21 families 109 fonts TypeRepublic 6 families 18 fonts CSTM Fonts 10 families 73 fonts Dinamo 14 families 205 fonts Typothe
Reader, I Googled It
A physical book is good for much more than reading. In our house, we have several large art books propping up a movie projector. A thin paperback is wedged under a couch leg in a spot where our old floors are especially uneven.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/09/02/reader-i-googled-it
Placeholder copy doesn’t have to be Lorem Ipsum
The design-copy relationship is tricky.
How to come up with sample projects for your UX portfolio (+ free template!)
If you feel like trying to get your first, or next, UX role is a lot harder than you thought, then please know this one thing: you’re not alone.
https://www.invisionapp.com/inside-design/sample-projects-ux-portfolio/
Progressive enhancement is faster
Progressive enhancement has become a bit of a hot topic recently, most recently with Tom Dale conclusively showing it to be a futile act, but only by misrepresenting what progressive enhancement is and what its benefits are. …unless of course you have a particular use case there.
https://jakearchibald.com/2013/progressive-enhancement-is-faster
Are bad designers hiding behind the term “UX”?
This is not an article about whether UX and UI are separate disciplines or not. This is a story on whether UX designers should pay more attention to the visual quality of their outputs. In the early years of the commercial web, we were all Web Designers.
https://uxdesign.cc/are-bad-designers-hiding-behind-the-term-ux-c3e30f0a4778
Yes, Small Design Studios Can Compete with Big Creative Agencies
For the past several years you’ve known them as Wade Jeffree and Leta Sobierajski, two graphic designers and art directors with solid independent practices who often collaborate on projects, but not always; who share a studio space and apartment in Brooklyn. And, oh yeah, they’re married.
2.1.8 Kern consistently and modestly or not at all
“Kerning – altering the space between selected pairs of letters – can increase consistency of spacing in a word like Washington or Toronto, where the combinations and are kerned.” At present there is no mechanism within HTML or CSS that specifically enables kerning.
Comparing and Contrasting
Define content by comparing and contrasting categories or classes of objects. Comparing and contrasting issues can be a powerful way to organize and understand knowledge.
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/technicalwriting/chapter/comparing-and-contrasting-2/
Teach Access Accessibility Grant Pre-Course Survey
Eight False Promises of the Internet
In early 2003 I had a conversation with Dee Hock, founder and former CEO of VISA. At the time we were interested in hiring him to be the keynote speaker at our upcoming Future of Money Summit, an event that would take place in November of that year.
https://www.futuristspeaker.com/business-trends/eight-false-promises-of-the-internet/
Submission deadlines for GitHub Classroom
Over the summer, GitHub Classroom grew a new feature: specifying submission deadlines! But there’s a curious bit of text that goes with it: After the deadline, GitHub Classroom will save the latest commit from each repo as a submission. Submission commits are viewable on the assignment page.
https://education.github.community/t/submission-deadlines-for-github-classroom/16099/3
What Is GitHub, and What Is It Used For?
GitHub is a website and service that we hear geeks rave about all the time, yet a lot of people don’t really understand what it does. Want to know what all the GitHub hubbub is about? Read on to find out. To understand GitHub, you must first have an understanding of Git.
https://www.howtogeek.com/180167/htg-explains-what-is-github-and-what-do-geeks-use-it-for/
jfiksel/github-classroom-for-teachers
This is a guide for using GitHub Classroom to assist or run your class. We are using GitHub Classroom for a class where the assignments are primarily, if not all, R Markdown files. However, this guide should be applicable to most classes.
Typography as a Radical Act In an Industry Ever-dominated by White Men
Letterforms are loaded cultural objects—they often reflect the people who made them and the story they want to tell. In the history of type, not every story gets told, though, and Tré Seals wants to change that.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/tre-seals-is-turning-typography-into-a-radical-act/
How to Meet WCAG 2 (Quick Reference)
Background on these resources is provided in the WCAG Overview and The WCAG 2 documents. For important information about techniques, see Understanding Techniques for WCAG Success Criteria. Tags: Shows only success criteria associated with the selected tags.
The map is not the territory: Empathy in design
Design empathy is an approach that draws upon people’s real-world experiences to address modern challenges.
http://interactions.acm.org/archive/view/march-april-2019/the-map-is-not-the-territory
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Using Personas to Understand the Needs and Goals of Institutional Repository Users
This study shares the results of an effort to understand the needs and goals of future institutional repository (IR) users at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB).
Developing User Personas to Aid in the Design of a User-Centered Natural Product-Drug Interaction Information Resource for Researchers
Pharmacokinetic interactions between natural products and conventional drugs can adversely impact patient outcomes. These complex interactions present unique challenges that require clear communication to researchers.
Bringing A Better Design Process To Your Organization
12 min read Workflow, Business Share on Twitter or LinkedIn Earn your master’s degree online Get Angular code from Sketch designs with 1 click Think about your last few software projects.
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/08/better-design-process-organization/
Pitching Your Writing To Publications
12 min read Community, Content, Communication Share on Twitter or LinkedIn Earn your master’s degree online Get Angular code from Sketch designs with 1 click Writing for a publication such as Smashing Magazine can help to build your reputation as an expert.
https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2019/08/pitching-writing-publications/
What Are You Worth? This Quiz Will Calculate That for You
It ain’t easy being a “creative.
https://eyeondesign.aiga.org/what-are-you-worth-this-quiz-will-calculate-that-for-you/
Decolonizing your syllabus? You might have missed some steps
Decolonizing your syllabus is different than including some Indigenous writers on the reading schedule. Inclusion is a form of diversification but it can also be violent.
https://civiclaboratory.nl/2019/08/12/decolonizing-your-syllabus-you-might-have-missed-some-steps/
Browsealoud Web Screen Reader Software
Helping comply with legal obligations Browsealoud helps you to comply with: European Convention on Human Rights UK – Equality Act 2010 IRE – Disability Act 2005 US – Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) US – Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act CA – Canadian Charter on Rights and Freedom CA – Comm
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Look at VPATs (voluntary product accessibility template) for products used by CUNY. CUNY affirms its commitment to making it’s web-based, electronic content accessible.
Will Posting This Notice Stop Facebook from Making Your Posts Public?
Messages about protecting your copyright or privacy rights on Facebook by posting a particular legal notice to your Facebook wall have been circulated on that social network for several years now, and all of them are variants of an older rumor holding that posting a similar notice on a web site woul
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/facebook-posts-made-public/
Tips on E-Filing Your Small Estate DIY Form
NYSCEF is the court’s online e-filing system. Filing your court papers over the internet is called e-filing.
Accessibility and web performance are not features, they’re the baseline
This week I’ve been brooding about web performance and accessibility. It all began when Ethan Marcotte made a lot of great notes about the accessibility
https://css-tricks.com/accessibility-and-web-performance-are-not-features-theyre-the-baseline/
SUNY Create
Master the tools and technology that make up the web to build your own space online. Explore the notion of digital identity and how publishing on the web can frame an identity.
Let’s Cut the Bullshit—Here’s What it Really Means to Diversify Your Workplace
After my first day interning at a design studio in London one summer, I returned home on the verge of tears. I couldn’t initially explain why, but I loathed the atmosphere. The thought of going to work every morning filled me with anxiety.
CSS Zen Garden
A demonstration of what can be accomplished through CSS-based design. Select any style sheet from the list to load it into this page. Littering a dark and dreary road lay the past relics of browser-specific tags, incompatible DOMs, broken CSS support, and abandoned browsers.
The Activist Academic
We have signed up with three aggregators who resell networkable e-book editions of our titles to academic libraries.
https://styluspub.presswarehouse.com/browse/book/9781975501396/The-Activist-Academic
Meaningful Grading: A Guide for Faculty in the Arts
Natasha Haugnes, currently at the Academy of Art University and California College of the Arts, has worked in art and design university settings for twenty-three years and has authored two ESL textbooks.
AXIS Dance – Changing the face of dance and disability
SUPPORT US AXIS Dance – Changing the face of dance and disability Press Contact Liam Passmore Shave and a Haircut liam@shaveandahaircut.
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