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e-Access'15 conference | Nick Freear’s blog

http://nick.freear.org.uk/2015/03/03/eaccess15-conference.html

3 March 2015 legacy. Post source on GitHub. First, a mention for #AXSchat. An online conversation that happens each Tuesday 20-21:00. On all things accessibility and inclusion-related in business on the web and beyond. Run by @neilmilliken. On the 24 February, I attended the e-Access’15 conference. Chaired by the excellent Dan Jellinek. Of Headstar and Nigel Lewis. Independence, inspiration and innovation. And, he discussed his work on the 2005 documentary, Beyond Boundaries. Example as a 1.9m (6 foo...

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Composer-suggest, JuxtaLearn, LACE & Open Media Player | Nick Freear’s blog

http://nick.freear.org.uk/2015/11/04/composer-suggest-lace-open-media-player.html

Composer-suggest, JuxtaLearn, LACE and Open Media Player. 4 November 2015 post source on GitHub. Over the course of a number of recent development phases in different software projects, I’ve been working to simplify installation and dependency management, while leaving room for the sort of experimentation required in research projects (indeed, many software projects? Way back in November 2013, I was working for Gill Clough. On the Tricky Topic tool. You can see what this looks like on GitHub. The LACE Ev...

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SoLAR Flare workshop – LACE evidence hub accessibility | Nick Freear’s blog

http://nick.freear.org.uk/2015/10/09/laceflare-workshop-lace-accessibility.html

SoLAR Flare workshop LACE evidence hub accessibility. 9 October 2015 post source on GitHub. Extended talk, on YouTube. I’ve been working with Doug (Clow) and Rebecca (Ferguson) on the. Over the past 18 months. It has not been continuous development just this week, we’re completing the third phase of software development. This talk is an extended version of a lightning talk I’ll be giving on Friday 9 October (it should last 2 minutes a challenge! Screen-shot 1 shows an Evidence Hub page in Windows High Co...

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Peter Pan — A Musical Adventure (RARE) | Nick Freear’s blog

http://nick.freear.org.uk/2016/04/14/peter-pan.html

Peter Pan A Musical Adventure (RARE). 14 April 2016 post source on GitHub. I’m proud to say that my daughter Rosie has a. Speaking part in a forthcoming RARE productions. The show runs from 7th 9th July at Stantonbury Theatre. Note: Rosie is ONLY. Performing in the Friday 8th, and Saturday 9th matinee shows. Book tickets via Stantonbury Theatre. And the box office tel: 01908 324466. RARE Productions, the UK’s largest youth musical theatre company present this timeless classic. Like RARE on Facebook.

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e-Access'15 conference part 2 | Nick Freear’s blog

http://nick.freear.org.uk/2015/04/11/eaccess15-conference-part-2.html

E-Access'15 conference part 2. 11 April 2015 legacy. Post source on GitHub. Continued from the previous post. In the second part of the plenary Kathleen Egan, Programmes Manager at Age UK London, presented the valuable work done by the charity on digital inclusion. She discussed a project to use teenagers as volunteer mentors, and referred to the. Digital inclusion evidence review. I was happy to have lunch with Roger Wilson-Hinds and Natasha Beauharnais. They are both involved with Georgie Phone. Here a...

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oEmbed isn't dead – here's OU Embed! | Nick Freear’s blog

http://nick.freear.org.uk/2013/04/23/oembed-isnt-dead-heres-ou-embed.html

OEmbed isn't dead here's OU Embed! 23 April 2013 legacy. Post source on GitHub. Despite appearances, I argue that oEmbed is alive and kicking. Brian Mearns has put together a document describing some concerns around the oEmbed standard. Partly around security. It’s generally very useful. The discussion on the oEmbed Google Group. Goes onto whether oEmbed. Is dead, and what the alternatives are. I concur that the benefits of oEmbed include:. I also second Sean’s wish list. So, I’m standing up to be counted.

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Introducing ... Open Media Player | Nick Freear’s blog

http://nick.freear.org.uk/2015/08/20/introducing-open-media-player.html

Introducing . Open Media Player. 20 August 2015 legacy. Post source on GitHub. I’m very happy to announce that we have released Open Media Player (formerly called OU Media Player), as a free/open source project. It has been our intention for a while to make the code open source, and we were finally able to plan in the time to make it happen. We decided to open source because:. Open Media Player aspires to the highest levels of accessibility, while being a mainstream player - a fairly unique proposition;.

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Track OER and CaPRéT, one year on | Nick Freear’s blog

http://nick.freear.org.uk/2013/11/19/track-oer-and-capret-one-year.html

Track OER and CaPRéT, one year on. 19 November 2013 legacy. Post source on GitHub. Its just over a year ago (19 October 2012), that the JISC/HEFCE-funded Track OER rapid innovation project. Finished. You can view the grand finale videos on the project blog. We’ve recently had some fresh interest in the project, so I thought I’d take a look at the recent data. We used and extended CaPRéT. As one of two strands of work in the Track OER project. We experimented with Piwik. 19 October to 18 November 2013.

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High contrast and ignore colours | Nick Freear’s blog

http://nick.freear.org.uk/2015/10/23/high-contrast-ignore-colors.html

High contrast and ignore colours. 23 October 2015 post source on GitHub. Recently, I’ve been doing some accessibility fixes for a project I maintain the LACE Evidence Hub. I talked about it. I am also doing some accessibility evaluations of other sites. And so, I’ve been revisiting some work I did previously for Open Media Player. On fixing high-contrast related bugs and issues. This accessibility fix comprises. This is one of the rare cases where we can detect how the user has set up their computer....