week 9 : 23 may
readability and meaning

agenda

• Speaker - Cancelled
• Reading Reflection:
  • Andrea
  • Brian
  • Camille
  • Craig
  • David
  • Dian (Nielsen Top 10)
  • Drew
  • Erica (applied to project)
  • Ingrid (applied to project)
  • Jing (applied to project)
  • Jyotsna
  • Mark
  • Meg
  • Robert
  • Sakina
  • Simon
• Readability Tools
  • Use Gunning's Fog Index to review your Coffee Review -- and Flesch-Kincaid (Word tool). What did you find? What might you do if you were the editor working on these reviews?
• Also, in order to "read" ... you must be able to "access" the resource: a look at online accessibility
  1. What do we mean by accessibility ... or disability? [types]
  2. UW Accessibility Guide
  3. What is web accessibility and Web accessibility and UK law - A List Apart
  4. Bobby - check a site
  5. W3 Validator and W3 CSS Validator - check a site
  6. Section 508
  7. Other resources:
     • Accessibility and Acrobat
     • Accessibility and Flash
     • Designing more usable web sites - tools from TRACE
     • WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative
     • Web AIM - Intro to Accessibility
• Explore Seattle
  • Design Update? Drew's page
  • Writing Assignment Details (Bryght)
  • Please update the Bryght sign up sheet by putting a link to your revised review and/or your Ballard story.
  • Reviews parent page
  • Ballard parent page

assignments

• Next Week - Report on your personal change project - both the html/image and multi-media versions. We will then work on the Explore Seattle site.