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Search term wordle

Beth Granter — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:02:37 +0000

I love looking at site analytics, and one of the most interesting and useful things to look at are search terms people use to find your site. So you can really look at what topics people are interested in. I had a look at how people come to my site via Google, grabbed the top 20 phrases and put them into Wordle. I didn’t weight the most commonly used ones against the 20th most commonly used one, but this still gives a good representation of the key themes people search for, that I write about.

Ten delicious aggregator links

Beth Granter — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:42:22 +0000

Continuing to share my delicious links, here’s mine tagged with Aggregator:

Addictomatic: Inhale the Web – Social search engine mashup
Aggregation | drupal.org – Drupal aggregation plugin
Virb – Social networking site where your profile is built from feeds
Dipity – activity aggregator visualised in a timeline
FriendFeed – obviously
Fuser – email and social network message aggregator
HelloTxt – multiple status updater
Pageflakes – it’s like NetVibes
ShowYourself – It’s a widget, it’s not about flashing your bits
Socialthing! – Got bought by AIM and is now AIM Lifestream. Like FriendFeed.

Ten delicious accessibility links

Beth Granter — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:55:05 +0000

I’ve been wondering how I can feature my delicious links on blog posts, so I just decided to start at the beginning of the alphabet of tags containing at least 10 links. I don’t like those automated services that just post a blog of your daily or weekly links – I wanted to group it better. I don’t tend to save the obvious stuff to delicious, but tend to save things I’m not so likely to remember how to find via Google. So, in the order that I discovered them, here’s a few random tools & articles about accessibility. Some are pretty old but still relevant:

2007 links:

ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing A journal
CSS: Map Pop Accessible CSS image map tutorial
Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) W3C guidelines (the obvious one)
Mike Davidson: March to Your Own Standard Controversial opinion piece
ATRC Web Accessibility Checker Tool

2008 links:

Colour Contrast Check Tool
Text Size Drupal plugin
Accessibility | Deafness Forum of Australia Great example of an accessibility statement

2009 links

Web accessibility training courses by the RNIB
SiteRay – test, compare and improve your websites Creates great reports on website accessibility and lots more, useful for before-and-after tests for clients if you’ve rebuilt their site

I would say the most important thing I’ve learnt about accessibility over the years is that it’s not just about deaf people, blind people, or those who can’t use a standard keyboard or mouse, but about anybody who needs to or prefers to access websites in a different way. So it’s about designing interfaces that allow users to choose how to get around to best suit them, and allowing them to personalise the way online media is displayed.

Technorati

Beth Granter — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:19:59 +0000

I’m just claiming this URL for Technorati: 8K7KG34U9G7J