Creating usable website solutions
Trying to find all the privacy settings for your smartphone or the online services you use often seems like going down a rabbit hole.
I have to remember if I still have an account with that online service. Or did I replace it with something else?
Thankfully, my password manager helps me keep track of online services I use regularly. Continue reading Manage Your Privacy Settings: Links to Devices and Popular Services
When Chrome removed the http and https from the start of URLs in their browser address bar, I wasn’t happy.
And I heard from other people that weren’t happy.
Despite a padlock before the URL in the address bar, the https in the address bar was reinforcement that the site was using SSL to encrypt HTTP requests and responses.
It added a level of trust to the site I was visiting. Continue reading How Can We Make URLs Readable?
I admit it. I’m not a video game player.
When Myst was released in 1993, I was one of the first people to play it at the software company where I worked.
We all gathered together in one office to try and figure out what it was all about.
I did well, it was fun! But I never really got interested in video games after that.
Until the past few years, when I learned more about video games from my friends. And how games were becoming more accessible to people using assistive technology.
When Herman Narula, CEO of Improbable Worlds Limited, opens his TED 2019 talk about the transformative power of video games with the statement that a third of the world’s population—2.6 billion people—play video games, it caught my attention. Continue reading TED Talk: The Tranformative Power of Video Games [Video]