There’s also the graphic-novel version.

I dunno… this is verging on rock-snob completionism.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 2:31 PM on September 3, 2008

dw, Target’s accessibility standards (let’s agree to use that word nonironically for the moment) were published by DRA Legal; they aren’t secret.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 2:11 PM on August 28, 2008

DFN is already in HTML.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 2:35 PM on August 28, 2008

DammitJim, two days later I still am not understanding your comment. As you explain it, your team considered accessibility this additional and extra and special thing, which you couldn’t sell to your bosses.

But does that not imply you’re a tables-and-font-tags shop? Do you not use CSS for layout? Vaguely sensible, if not valid, HTML, like headings, paragraphs, lists? Correctly-marked-up forms?

So what does that leave for basic accessibility?... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 6:28 AM on August 30, 2008

I wish people here would stop repeating the nonsense about ABBR/ACRONYM. The way you’re explaining it isn’t how developers do it now. WCAG 1 was written nonsensically (what is the “first occurrence” of an abbreviation when you can enter the page anywhere?) and it is generally understood that:

Not all abbreviations need or can even have expansions, like DVD, TV, MP3
Some merely need markup without expansion, especially if they would make a nonsensical word... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 6:33 AM on August 30, 2008

XMLicious, I wasn’t talking about WCAG 2, which I haven’t read and don’t intend to.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 1:36 PM on August 30, 2008

Straight “dating” sites are only superficially similar to the gay ones. There’s at least a half-hearted or feigned attempt at courtship and dating on the straight ones, while the gay ads that legitimately seek a long-term relationship, or even “going slow,” are rare.

Despite what feminist theoreticians may have claimed, there are basic differences between two guys’ having impromptu, carefree sex and any woman’s having similar sex with a man. Safety, pregnancy, and the... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 6:17 AM on August 29, 2008

GuyZero beat me to it. I flat-out heckled Idée at a BarCamp two years ago and, within 15 minutes of further demonstrations, I was turned completely around and am now a believer. It is beyond amazing what their main software application can do. I was told that some magazines just do not bother preclearing images from large stock agencies with which they already have accounts; they use what they want, send Idée a PDF upon publication, and get a bill for what they used.

The... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 2:32 PM on August 22, 2008

Goodnewsfortheinsane, you need to distinguish between occasional subtitling viewers and nonstop captioning viewers. Nonetheless, both groups will spend most of their time doing the intended thing: Reading.

I don’t know if my pile of subtitling research papers backs this up, but my pile of captioning research papers does.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 3:29 PM on August 6, 2008

Subtitling and captioning are two different things even if the British insist they aren’t. In both cases the intended usage is reading the words on the screen, yet still people are surprised when exactly that happens.

The first time you see a subtitled production you will be surprised to find yourself reading the screen. The umpteenth time, you have no business being surprised. It’s what you’re supposed to be doing.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 3:16 PM on August 7, 2008

AllKindsofTime, I find it unlikely that you cannot detect that the default CSS for MetaFilter is blue. Nearly everyone can see blue, except for some tritanopes. You are very unlikely to be a tritan.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 9:34 PM on July 26, 2008

I was wondering how long this would take to hit the front page. There seems to be a defined path now along blogs of increasingly greater readership. (I’m contrasting this scenario with the original intent of MetaFilter, which was to show you what you hadn’t already heard about.) I’m sure this comment will go over like gangbusters.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 6:48 PM on July 10, 2008

Since this thread has the attention of Americans, please be advised that “Newfoundland” is pronounced to rhyme with, and have the same stress pattern as, “understand.” (The middle vowel is a schwa.)

It is not pronounced “new FOUND lind” or “NEW findlind” (to use non-IPA transliteration). Other accents, including British and Australian, have a more plausible case for the latter variant, though I still suggest to my friends with those accents to say “newfindLAND” as we do.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 2:51 PM on July 4, 2008

The episode of Mod Squad that NCI keeps talking about – and remember, NCI keeps repeating the falsehood that it invented closed captioning – was clearly not the first “closed-captioned” television program. It didn’t use the actual Line 21 system and only one group of people saw it.

True, the captioning was closed because it was optional. But that isn’t what is meant by “first closed-captioned show”; that means “first show closed-captioned using our system.” I am pretty... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 2:57 PM on July 2, 2008

anildash, please stop acting like an elder statesman or some paragon of rationality. (We already saw that years ago, too.) Expressing opinions – even unfounded opinions, as many will be in a vacuum of facts – is what blog comments are for. You may be passingly familiar with blog software; here it is working as designed.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 12:40 PM on July 1, 2008

The site crashes Opera. Nice.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 1:58 PM on June 21, 2008

The Awesome Bar is a small incremental step toward the full-text search of Opera’s address bar. I am still missing a functional replacement for IE5 Mac’s nickname feature, in which one could, for example, set up a nickname like askme to go to http://ask.metafilter.com/. FF3 is halfway there, actually. Every recent browser has had a unique UI feature that other browsers should steal wholesale.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 3:26 PM on June 17, 2008

I think the stories “date poorly” because Maupin, almost as a matter of policy, name-drops products and issues of the era in which each story is set – from Viyella shirts to Prii and FTMs, if you follow the whole series.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 10:32 AM on May 6, 2008

Corollary to Godwin’s law: As discussion of Rick Poynor proceeds, probability of misspelling his surname as “Poyner” reaches 1.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 12:12 PM on April 19, 2008

It’s not that Dan Savage showed a lapse in taste by eulogizing his mother in a sex column. It’s just that he has a regular sex column he has to write, this time he couldn’t, and he explained why. What he had available to him was the regularly scheduled sex column, which he pre-empted.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 11:40 AM on April 13, 2008

Not a double post, but it was linked in comments in previous post(s). Cute nonetheless.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 11:00 AM on April 13, 2008

Let me +1 the strong disapproval of Rusty’s attitude, advice, and approach here. Rusty seems like a scary person based on the written record of this post.

Bullied children require full-on protection, not reengineering.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 8:03 PM on March 27, 2008

I have a dim impression that T. Keller at the French Laundry does excellent veganist dishes on request. Does anyone have experience (or links; few seem easily found) in that regard?
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 6:08 AM on March 26, 2008

I’m not going to correct the half-dozen or so factual errors made in the comments here. However, Michael Kaplan of Microsoft, at my request, explains that MS Word quotation marks are real Unicode characters. He fails to mention this was not always the case and still might not be if you open a document with an ancient character encoding.

Now that facts are out of the way, we turn to opinion. If you aren’t using real quotation marks where it is possible to do so (in short,... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 9:59 AM on March 12, 2008

I didn’t mean that, Sys Rq. Good job mixing my real apostrophes with neutral quotation marks. I’m not sure which one is tits and which is the bull.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 10:10 PM on March 12, 2008

It’s probably Toronto’s air, the cloudy day, shooting through windows, and resized digicam pics without serious Photoshopping. I agree, this could use a Flickr set at higher resolution.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 2:16 PM on November 16, 2007

Yes, Brockles, he should have ordered up a different weather forecast and swapped out the chopper’s windows for plate glass.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 2:51 PM on November 16, 2007

I’m nobody’s sockpuppet. It’s my contribution for today to “the best of the Web.”
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 1:15 PM on November 15, 2007

OH MY GOD THIS IS WRONG ON INNUMERABLE LEVELS
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 7:01 PM on November 1, 2007

Yes, Flod, but the Thriller album is not a single (“Thriller” is) and its cover is not a design classic surrounded by lore.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 2:39 PM on October 10, 2007

I appreciate the fact that MeFi likes my paper. Really!

There’s a lot more information at my TTC Signs site. Speaking notes from my presentation, a much more concise document, are coming in the next day or so. There will be a presentation in Toronto. And I’ll be updating the online version with small corrections.

DW, I retired from Web accessibility because (a) there was never any business in it for me and (b) it is being handled by the kinds of... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 10:49 PM on September 16, 2007

Avocet, there are no fewer than four directional-signage types in St. George (aboriginal, Paul Arthur, 1990s “Helvetica,” Sheppard prototypes), plus innumerable internal signs like the ones alongside staircases. I could tell you exactly how many if the TTC had bothered to fund my numerical inventory project.

Blazecock: Sorry, no, my paper is quite logically ordered. But, you know, thanks.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 11:26 PM on September 16, 2007

The aboriginal TTC font. It doesn’t have a name.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 11:35 PM on September 16, 2007

I commend this thread for not having been invaded by transsexualists who insist that nobody else may talk about them and that, incidentally, gay men are transgendered. I’ve witnessed the former over and over again and had the latter stated about me.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 2:31 PM on September 9, 2007

Maxwelton, the problem with Zapf Chancery is not the typeface but the fact that it is nearly impossible to find any weight and style other than Medium Italic. Did you know the real Zapf Chancery has four weights, italics, and drawn small caps? In other words, a complete family? (Autobloggatio.)

No?

Well, blame Apple and Adobe for including only Medium Italic in the original LaserWriter. We’ve been living it down ever since.... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 9:35 PM on August 31, 2007

For those of you dismissing Clearview Hwy as “ugly” or similar, are you applying the wrong criteria? Just who exactly said that signage fonts have to be something other than ugly, or have any kind of beauty, or lack of it, at all?

Also for those same people: The article stated that Clearview variants for running text have been designed. Perhaps they’re less “ugly,” if that is still a criterion. Could you do your homework, please?

And you can all... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 8:18 AM on August 12, 2007

OMFG
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 12:22 PM on August 11, 2007

I find it not particularly difficult to read ≈700 feeds. I am one of the few users of Kinja, which, like Keynote for Jobs, was pretty much written for Denton, who reads twice as many. It’s so simple it works in any browser (I frequently use Lynx, though it works best in Opera, with X key for Next).
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 3:34 PM on August 3, 2007

Extra factoid about X-Files episode: Its title includes another title, viz “José Chung’s From Outer Space.” Great for parties with copy-editors or anyone with an interest in the military-industrial-entertainment complex.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 8:09 PM on May 28, 2007

And it gets better: Jack White is related to Ashley MacIsaac. Perhaps the White Stripes should play Craignish.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 5:37 AM on May 8, 2007

The Steamworks is by far a more pleasant Local Bathing Establishment™ (LBE™) in Toronto, with gigantic custom-built stainless-steel hot tubs, but it comes at the cost of obnoxious and lippy counter staff who will read you if you so much as smile funny. I am always amused by Spa Excess’s posters advertising upcoming “Asian nights,” as they would be hard to distinguish from any other night.

Anyway, the best thing about gay-male environments is the lack... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 9:59 PM on April 22, 2007

Also, Wikipedia leader Jimbo Wales has a letter of apology in the current issue (2007.03.19; not online, but Sethf has a posting that includes it it), stating:
I am writing to apologize to the New Yorker and Stacy Schiff, and to give some followup concerning Ryan Jordan.... When I last spoke to the New Yorker... I misjudged the issue. It was not OK for Mr. Jordan, or Essjay, to lie to a reporter, even to protect his identity. I later learned more about the deceptions involved and... [more]
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 12:02 PM on March 17, 2007

DHartung, pleasure as ever. It’s called additional evidence. And I looked at the last thread and thought the weight of the two items warranted a new post. And! I! guess! you! disagree!
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 1:41 PM on March 17, 2007

Can someone find an actual reference that states that one of Wikipedia’s founding principles is “love”? Or is that some kind of Walesian Randian Objectivist post-facto twaddle?

(I think the claim that Wikipedia is “built on trust” is false on its face, so let’s not bother.)
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 11:20 AM on March 19, 2007

Listen, be careful with the flamebait of the word "narcissist."
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 3:15 PM on March 3, 2007

By "CBC original series," do you mean anything airing for the first time in Canada on CBC or only things produced by CBC?

And anyway, in recent memory, what about Da Vinci, Intelligence, even H₂O?

I did, however, despise Shit Is Wonderland. Canadians do manic whimsy poorly.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 1:17 PM on January 7, 2007

Dogpoet is an out HIV-positive writer. The tag applies to the writer, not the subject-matter.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 5:21 AM on January 4, 2007

I was lucky enough to visit Number 10 on three occasions in 2005. I believe I saw every significant room save for the Cabinet Room and I had tea in the back offices, which are exactly like every office you've ever seen.

The best part is that, upon the first visit, I kept walking past the black fence with armed guards for several minutes trying to find the actual Downing St. And yes, you do have to knock on the door.

I look back on this with great fondness.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 8:08 PM on January 3, 2007

Well, if you don’t view it as a “main concern” it’ll never get done. And it wasn’t being done. So the bloggers took it into their own hands.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 5:59 AM on August 14, 2006

It might be nice if contributors to this thread would avoid suggesting that assaulting a female is worse than assaulting anyone else (male, child, adult, whatever). Women are not more or less important or worthy of legal and other protection than men – and vice-versa. Chivalry is, in fact, dead; we have this thing called equality now.
posted to MetaFilter by joeclark at 1:17 PM on January 28, 2006