Author Archives: John F Croston III

Accessibility Presentation Slides from Refresh DC Meetup

Thanks, again for all of you coming out to here a talk on Accessibility. Here are the “Is Your Website Accessible” slides from my presentation on 2008/01/17. I had a great time this evening doing this. It was worth all … Continue reading

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Refresh DC Accessibility Presentation – 01/17/2008

I will be giving an Accessibility presentation at the Janruary 17, 2008, meeting of Refresh DC. The following is the important information: Thursday, January 17, 2008 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM Greater Washington Board of Trade 1725 I Street NW, … Continue reading

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Use of UL or OL in HTML Forms

I just finished re-reading Roger Johansson’s wonderful article entitled “Use the label element to make your HTML forms accessible“. I agree with everything he said, except I think by putting the label and the input elements as part of an … Continue reading

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A Few Quick Things About the OLPC

Yesterday I met Justin Thorp, Rodney DeGracia, Stewart, and Partica over at Murky Coffee in Arlington, VA with our One Laptop per Child machines (OLPCs). We had a good time talking about our new laptops. Stewart even mentioned that the … Continue reading

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More Helpful Information for the OLPC

Today I have found a few more useful resources for the OLPC. http://dev.laptop.org/ – for bug tracking and source code for the OLPC http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/ – mailing list for the OLPC http://www.olpcnews.com/ – One Laptop per Child News http://wiki.laptop.org/go/USB_ethernet_adaptors – USB … Continue reading

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