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For a while now, i’ve been looking at ways of making my web sites more accessible for blind and partially sighted people. Mostly, this means making sure the layout is easy to follow if you’re using a screen reader (which is software that reads the web page out loud).

But it occurred to me the other day that the best way to make my blog posts accessible is to read them myself and allow people to listen to them online or download the audio file and listen to it later. … Read more »

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I’ve finally managed to set up some blog software on my own site. It’s not really configured the way i want it yet, but it will be soon. At the moment, i’m afraid, it looks a bit boring. But i’ll be sorting it out over the next day or two.

Since my last blog post (on a site owned by the evil Rupert Murdoch! ) i’ve been flat out teaching myself about web publishing and how to make decent web pages. … Read more »

Tags: Blogging, Life by will
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On Saturday it’ll be a year since i signed up to Myspace. I did it because my sister, Lucy, hassled me to. Before that, i’d looked at it once or twice and it didn’t look very interesting – i found out afterwards that there was something wrong with the way my web browser displayed it, and once i’d sorted that out it looked much better! Of course, there’s been plenty of myspace weirdnesses like that in the last year.

When i signed up i was living in Kabul, Afghanistan, and it was a good way to keep in touch with my family in England and friends in Australia. Eventually, i found various old friends on it and it got better and better for keeping in touch with all sorts of people from all round the world. … Read more »

Tags: Blogging, Travel and Places by will
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