October 2005 Entries
The Frog Prince is the other side of the big pond for another business trip, so I have been keeping myself busy.
In the last 24 hours I have cleaned our pad, laid out the next copy of The Review of the Pre-Raphaelite Society and finished tech reviewing another Head First book.
Don’t panic, I am still alive! (Thanks to those of you who’ve been in touch to check!) I know it’s been ages since I last blogged, but I do have an excuse, I’ve been busy writing “the” book.
The Frog Prince and I did manage to catch ‘The Curse of the Were-rabbit’ which was truly hilarious! Maybe it was all the Jelly Babies I’d scoffed, but I haven’t laughed that much in ages. If you haven’t yet, go and see it – you’ll come out humming the theme tune and wondering whether you’ll ever be able to look a cute and...
In response to Bunny Frog who commented:
You mentioned that the latest redesign you have completed (looks brilliant by the way) was structured so that it would be easy to read and use for users with braille or oral browsers....... How do braille and oral browsers work?
In case she’s not the only one who’s interested, here’s a quick explanation of Access Technology.
Access Technologies attempt to interpret textual (and some graphical) content that is displayed on the screen and present it to blind or partially-sighted users by either magnifying it, or as speech, or through a refreshable Braille display. Some users use...
I’m still here and I am still alive. There’s a really good reason for the lack of blogging recently, honest!
I can’t say too much yet, but I can tell you my big secret.
*drum roll*
I’m writing a Head First book!
Watch this space for updates...