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The objective of this technique is to make sure that users can read text that is presented over a background. For Success Criterion 1.4.3, this technique describes the minimum contrast ratio for text that is less than 18 point (if not bold) and less than 14 point (if bold). For Success Criterion 1.4.5, this technique relaxes the 7:1 contrast ratio requirement for text that is at least 18 point (if not bold) or at least 14 point (if bold).

with the formula and advices

SimpleDB/dev provides a local SimpleDB server, so you can develop offline, without even currently having a SimpleDB account.

a nice usage of web.py

encfs, a user-space encrypted file system that runs on top of FUSE.

To use it, just type: $ encfs ~/.encryptedstorage ~/secure

And follow the directions. You then will have a ~/secure directory where you can stash all the material that you would not want to become public if you were to lose your laptop.

A very simple way to have a encrypted place, for your next trip to the US.

I think you’ve fundamentally misunderstood why people buy beautiful products, if you think it’s all about projection. While there’s certainly something to that (and I see absolutely no shame in that either!), it’s at the core about people feeling good about that which is pretty. That doesn’t make us shallow, that just makes us human.

hell…

This testing [ongoing] has been motivated by the desire to clarify how and if screen reading software renders text content contained within the TITLE attribute.

following a debate about alt="" vs title=""

Choisissez 2 valeurs à l'aide des champs ci-dessus, et l'outil vous indiquera automatiquement si les couleurs sont suffisamment différentes pour être utilisées ensemble.

petit outil à réadapter peut-être.

When graphics or images contain content that cannot be adequately described in the few words available inside an alt attribute, a longer description should be provided.

a simple howto do it with a minimum hassle.

A main aim of this site is to promote website accessibility. The site incorporates a number of accessibility aids and contains relevant articles on the subject.

great resources and videos

a simple Python script for parsing exported Google Analytics data.

evil evil evil

JavaScript Events: What can we learn from Desktop Applications?

presentation I gave at the 9.9.08 webtuesday, everything is in the page.

A Twisted-based publish/subscribe messaging server that uses the STOMP protocol

Revactor is an application framework for Ruby which uses the Actor model to simplify the creation of high-performance network services.

Writing concurrent systems is one of the most difficult problems facing programmers today. Working with threads is difficult, and asynchronous approaches are confusing and difficult to work with.

Erlang-like for Ruby, nice.

Disco is an open-source implementation of the Map-Reduce framework for distributed computing. As the original framework, Disco supports parallel computations over large data sets on unreliable cluster of computers.

The Disco core is written in Erlang, a functional language that is designed for building robust fault-tolerant distributed applications. Users of Disco typically write jobs in Python, which makes it possible to express even complex algorithms or data processing tasks often only in tens of lines of code. This means that you can quickly write scripts to process massive amounts of data.

Disco was started at Nokia Research Center as a lightweight framework for rapid scripting of distributed data processing tasks. This far Disco has been succesfully used, for instance, in parsing and reformatting data, data clustering, probabilistic modelling, data mining, full-text indexing, and log analysis with hundreds of gigabytes of real-world data.

Erlang + Python = complete beautifulness

By using this library you can focus on implementing protocol and logic, instead of spending countless hours of writing and debugging asynchronous, non blocking, high performance socket routines.

PHP is getting massive ?

TextUML Toolkit is an open-source IDE for UML that lets you create models at the same speed you write code. By adopting a textual notation, the TextUML Toolkit provides benefits you will not get elsewhere

Text ftw!

Diva is a a lightweight web framework for Python that is built on top of WSGI and integrated with the Genshi template engine. It also uses Babel for internationalization and WebOb for a more convenient abstraction on top of raw HTTP/WSGI.

Yet another Pythonic web framework.

a script that integrates status notices from my twitter and identi.ca feeds, and then creates an HTML "lifestream" snippet.

a SPARQL-based scripting language.

Squeejee believes that billing hourly offers more flexibility and cost savings for our client and is fair to us. Now that’s a win-win.

A Web language is not only a markup language (be XML, SGML or binary). For example, JPEG is not a Web format, but a format used on the Web. A Web format has the capability to play into the Web, it has linking capabilities.

merci Karl

Ubiquity is an experiment two parts. It’s both an interface and a development platform. Ubiquity 0.1 focuses on the platform aspects, while beginning to explore language-driven methods of controlling the browser.

Quicksilver for Firefox

Cassandra is a distributed storage system for managing structured data while providing reliability at a massive scale.

seems to be an alternative to scalaris (in Java too although)

jARIA is a plugin for the jQuery javascript library that adds ARIA support to Web applications. It is based on a javascript library written for Mozilla by IBM.

it seems to be a good start

Are you on Twitter?

yes I do

how to build a fast and efficient XMPP bot that lives in ejabberd.

doing a bot as a client instead of a server module seems outdated already.

The Geolocation module enables a web application to obtain a user's geographical position.

how evil is this?