Archive for the ‘UKOLN web services’ Category

Possible Interruption to UKOLN Blog Services

Wednesday, December 12th, 2012

All UKOLN blog services, including this newsfeed, may be subject to interruption due to routine maintenance operations during the morning of Thursday 13 December 2012.

Possible Interruption to UKOLN Blog Services

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

All UKOLN blog services, including this newsfeed, will be subject to interruption due to network maintenance operations.

Institutional Web Management Workshop 2011

Monday, November 29th, 2010

Next year’s IWMW 2011 will be held at the University of Reading from Tuesday 26 – Wednesday 27 July 2011. An Ideascale site has been set up to collect ideas for the event.

IWMW 2010: Call for Speakers and Workshop Facilitators

Monday, January 11th, 2010

The call for speakers and workshop facilitators for the Institutional Web Management Workshop 2010 is now open. The workshop will be held at the University of Sheffield from Monday 12 to Wednesday 14 July 2010. Further ideas and information are available from the IWMW 2010 Web site.

Time to Be Flexible

Monday, August 17th, 2009

In an articleexternal link published in the e-Access Bulletin (August 2009) Brian Kelly argues that policy makers need to take a more flexible approach to Web accessibility than simply requiring conformance with WAI (Web Accessibility Initiative) guidelinesexternal link. Brian suggests that the Web Adaptability approach, described in a recent peer-reviewed paperexternal link which embraces the UN Convention’s definition of accessibility, provides an approach more suited to addressing the real-world deployment challenges posed by the technical complexities of today’s Web environment, the rich diversity of uses made of the Web as well as the differing needs and requirements of individual users.

New IWMW 2009 Blog

Monday, July 27th, 2009

Take a look at the new blog for the IWMW 2009 community designed to operate before, during and after the Institutional Web Management Workshop. Posts will be from speakers and delegates alike and will include videos and interviews.

From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability

Tuesday, July 21st, 2009

Brian Kelly is the lead author of a paper entitled From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability. The paper, by Brian Kelly, Liddy Nevile, David Sloan, Sotiris Fanou, Ruth Ellison and Lisa Herrod, appears in Volume 4, Issue 4, 2009external link of Disability and Rehability: Assistive Technology, the journal of the International Society of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine (ISPRM external link).