open and accessible
All of these are for Firefox, of course. Go nuts with these and let us all know what works and what doesn’t.
All the technology in the world won’t matter if your web content is hard to read. This can be a particular problem for anyone who uses “insider” talk, like research institutes, colleges, and nonprofits. This isn’t a complete list, but I recently found two sites that might help.
Crawford Killian’s “Writing for the Web” blog — Discussion and resources from someone who stays informed.
The Poynter online-writing listserv — Low-traffic list for the web-writing community. A couple of people post writing seminar announcements.
Readability.info — Analyzes web text for reading level, like the function on Microsoft Word. The site won’t write good web content for you, but it might be a useful tool.
There is an interesting article from accross the pond about how to use browsers to develop and debug html structure, javascript, CSS etc. Read it and discuss below.
I’ve used Firefox as my primary browser for development for the past year and it has performed great. I highly recommend it for you and your organization. From mozilla.org:
The wait is over. Firefox 1.0 empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than 8 million others and make the switch today � Firefox imports your Favorites, settings and other information, so you have nothing to lose.
Without a doubt, my favorite online learning tool is Google where I can generally find answers to just about whatever real world problem I happen to be facing at any given time. I’m not sure how accessible Google and other major search engines are (or aren’t) but I just came across YouSearched which bills itself as The Accessible Search. I would doubt that the quality of search results is as high as the big players, but some of the features may be nice for certain situations.
All content is Creative Commons licensed
Christopher Phillips on openness, accessibility and stuff.
Follow me on Twitter
