I originally posted a link to this on my old blog website, and it’s such a useful reference I thought I’d repost here.

Victor Tsaran produced a video entitled “An Introduction to Screen Readers“.

Victor Tsaran is an accessibility engineer at Yahoo! who focuses on developing best practices for the creation of websites that work well with screen readers. In this video, he provides an introduction to some of the things that work well in the world of screen readers and others that fare more poorly.

Video duration is 27:23

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I built this compact website using a content management system and an ecommerce solution that integrates PayPal.

Some of the features on this site include:

• CMS platform based on WordPress
• Shopping cart integration with PayPal
• Easy to use dashboard (control panel)
• Template integration

If you were looking to build a similar website to this and wanted to discuss website production, please get in touch using the contact form.

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Really interesting and useful article by Bruce Lawson and Remy Sharp on HTML5

http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/09/23/html5-the-facts-and-the-myths/

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Adobe has added to their recent updates with the release of Captivate 5, which can be bought as a standalone product or part of their E-learning Suite 2. The interface has had a complete overhaul and now looks like the stable of the other Adobe products, so people who are familiar with using Photoshop, Flash or Dreamweaver will feel more comfortable with the new interface.

Quick glance at new features:

• The three sections Storyboard View, Edit View and Branching View have now been replaced with one editing view
• New feature called master slide allows you to create many layouts and speed up the production process
• Properties has been integrated as a panel, rather than a separate dialogue box

The new master slide feature has to be a main selling point for me and I’ll be upgrading as soon as my 30 day trial runs out, going back to version 4 without it has really slowed down my productivity, and it’s a killer feature that I can’t now do with out.

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Sheila Farrell is an Adobe Certified Instructor (ACI) and teaches the following Adobe products:

Adobe CS3, CS4 and CS5

• Dreamweaver
• Captivate
• Acrobat
• Fireworks
• Flash
• Photoshop

Other Courses:

• HTML / XHTML
• CSS
• HTML5
• Articulate
• Web Marketing
• Web Accessibility
• Web Usability

Sheila is available to deliver these courses onsite at your location in Central London and the SouthEast. Please contact Sheila for further details and to discuss your training requirements.

Prices start from £395.00 +VAT for up to 4 delegates onsite at your offices in Central London, plus travel expenses for locations outside of Central London.

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The ZingMedia website has been revamped to give the site a fresh look and feel and highlight the services that are on offer, such as:

• E-learning Services
• LMS Solutions
• CMS Solutions

All previous services relating to training, such as classroom based training, online training, workshops and Live! instructor-led training are delivered through the training website over at ZingMedia School.

The new ZingMedia website was built with XHTML, CS3, and some customsed PHP5. The site was hand-coded using the code view in Dreamweaver CS5 and Fireworks CS5 was used to create the wireframes, page layouts and final artwork that exisits on the website. Finally some customised JQuery was added on the homepage to produce the moving image slider.

Please feel free to get in touch if you like to book Sheila Farrell for bespoke training if you wish to learn the techniques used on this website.

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