Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Course Starts May 16

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If you’ve been wanting to learn how to evaluate websites for accessibility, check out the free Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Made Easy online course that begins May 16, 2016. Continue reading Professional Web Accessibility Auditing Course Starts May 16

Ongoing Trend? Video and Audio Players Without Volume Control

National Public Radio First Listen audio player controls for The Jawhawks Proust album

I was stumped this morning when I read my friend Tim Nekritz’s tweet:

https://twitter.com/TimNekritz/status/724621615774965761

At first, I assumed Tim was referring to audio or video autoplay on a website, a practice that annoys users who don’ appreciate being surprised by a video or audio they starts automatically. Continue reading Ongoing Trend? Video and Audio Players Without Volume Control

Photo of the Week: Bonaparte’s Gulls at Ford Lake

Two Bonaparte's Gull swimming on Ford Lake

Spring brings thousands of birds through southeastern Michigan, as raptors, songbirds, and waterbirds migrate north to Canada and beyond for their summer breeding season.

And this weekend, spring migration brought through the Bonaparte’s Gull, a small bird that winters along the coastline of Texas, Mississippi, and Mexico, but spends its summer breeding season in the taiga and boreal forest of central and western Canada. Continue reading Photo of the Week: Bonaparte’s Gulls at Ford Lake