Trends in Master Data Management
MDM and data quality have always been closely aligned but three recent announcements have emphasised that point even more. Each of them involves a larger vendor leveraging the efforts of a smaller,...
The accessibility blog contains short pieces of news and thoughts on accessibility and usability. Accessibility covers making all of ICT easier to use by people with disabilities and challenges and how to make peoples lives easier by the use of ICT. Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appear in Peter Abrahams publications and articles for Bloor Research.
Oracle and Sun: winners and losers
Sun is a hardware company that has, historically, been rubbish at marketing and selling software. Oracle, on the other hand, is very good at selling software but has no experience as a hardware...
Accessibility has its rewards
Working in accessibility sometimes feels like an uphill struggle with little external recognition. We keep chipping away at the issues because we know it is the right thing to do and because we do...
Data warehouse snapshot
This is going to be very concise. By which I mean that so many things have been happening that there isn't enough space to talk about all these announcements in any detail. I'll start off on...
Wheelchairs and accessible ICT
A wheelchair symbol is often used to identify information about accessibility of computer systems. At first sight this might seem reasonable as it is a well-known symbol for disabilities in...
Latest iPod Shuffle smallest and accessible
Apple have just announced the latest iPod Shuffle. It is the smallest iPod yet—about the size of my thumb but thinner. They have managed to make it so small by getting rid of the screen. All...
Virtual Instruments’ NetWisdom 3.0 plugs VMware I-O performance monitoring gap
Network performance measurement start-up Virtual Instruments (VI) has built some neat new functionality to extract extra VMware virtual machine (VM) input-output (I-O) performance metrics into...
WCAG 2.0 Rap and Easy YouTube
If you are going to present on accessibility and would like a coffee break intro then you might like to use this WCAG 2.0 rap on Easy YouTube. The video is fun and well made and helps to make...
How to tag documents with multiple languages and scripts.
A happy New Year to all my readers. This holiday season was unusual in the fact that the Christian festival Christmas, the Jewish festival Chanukkah (חנכה), and the...
Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 published December 2008
WCAG 2.0 is a set of guidelines, that are designed to replace 1.0, on creating accessible web content. I wrote about the Proposed Recommendation when was published in November. I suggested then...