Rochester Institute of Technology, my alma mater, has finally redesigned there web site. This is so muesign team. I haven’t run the site through any w3c validations but ill leave that for Andy. He is the one that always comments on my work and how some of it fails when placed through the w3c engines. What ever Andy comes up with I still think this is much better than before. Execellent work!
[tags]Rochester, RIT, Redesign, Web, Development[/tags]
No this isn’t a picture either, the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle has a news story where a man was shot in the scrotum. That’s once hell of a shot! What do you do to deserve to be shot in the balls?
The Rochester Fast Ferry has been sold for $29.8 million dollars. That’s the good news for the city. The Bad news is that they will still be in debt $19 million and still have to pay The Port of Toronto $250,000 CAD a year for 13 Years. You can blame ex Mayor Bill Johnson for that deal. It’s always good to screw the city that you governed months before you leave office. FYI – ex Mayor Johnson is now a tenured Professor in Public Policy at RIT.
The Ferry was sold to a British company named Euroferries.
The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle gets a web make over. It’s nice, but has some serious errors when tested for Section 508. I have been more and more aware of accessibility ever since Justin started talking to me about it. Many people don’t think too much about it, but it’s the law. Just look at Target.com. They are getting sued for not complying and one main issue in the suit is that the site has missing ALT tags on images. The reasons for alt tags are so that screen readers can interpret images for the blind. Think about it. What if you have submit button that was an image without an ALT tag? If the user was using a screen reader they would never know how to submit there order, potentially losing a customer or facing a law suit. When you run Cynthia against the D & C the first error that it shows are that there are missing alt tags. If media is going to start using the web as a medium, then they must start to conform to Section 508 to be successful.
[tags]Rochester D & C, Section 508, Cynthia, Accessibility, Rochester, News, Media[/tags]
If you haven’t heard about J-Mac you need to watch this!