Recently Google Labs released Google Accessible Search - Accessible Web Search for the Visually Challenged. Running the search page (http://labs.google.com/accessible/) through RAAKT (using the online version) yields three errors and the search result page is using tables for layout.  Maybe I am missing something here, but how hard can it be for Google to make [...]

When I studied social antropology a couple of years ago I never thought that it would influence my future programming endeavours. At that time we looked at theories on how things in our surroundings influence thought processes. One theory is called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. It states:
“…there is a systematic relationship between the grammatical categories of [...]

A couple of days ago I released RAAKT - The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit gem (I know, it really needs a better name). RAAKT is a gem that can be used independently of Rails and my plan was to make a Rails plugin that would add a custom assert method that did the check. It [...]

At RailsConf in Chicago I realized that it would be a good idea to port PAAKT to Ruby and make sure it can be used for automatic accessibility tests in the Rails testing framework. Work has begun and I hope to release it at the end of this summer if all goes well. The project [...]

Having recently recieved a brand new MacBook Pro from my employer I needed to get basic things such as mail and calendaring working. We use Microsoft Exchange 2003 which is great if everyone is using Outlook. Since I work with various clients I am subjected to their respective firewall policy which typically only allows HTTP(S) traffic. This leaves us with Outlook Web Access (dumbed down interface for everyting but IE). We need a module to read Exchange and export appointments to iCal…

John Lam has created an initial version of RubyCLR which allows you to use Ruby through the .NET CLR. Although there is no support for generics or marshaling of user-defined value types it is still a very interesting release.
Microsoft will undoubtedly monitor his progress closely. Maybe he will go the same way as Jim Hugunin [...]

For some reason it is difficult to use the [] and {} characters when using IRB with a non-english keyboard on Windows XP. Here is a short document describing how to set it up.