Quality ( Control)

Dear Alexander

Webadmin are combing through all new content that’s contributed to the Framework website, as part of quality assurance for web accessibility guidelines we have to adhere to.  The types of things we are checking are alternative text, whether or not links directing to other pages or documents are opening in the same window or new windows and spelling and grammar.

We have noted that the page created by Alexander Hayes on 23 February 2010 titled De-activating Alpha Trials has the following issues that need fixing:

• Image at the top of the page

o   Alternative text to be added in the Image Properties

o   Link target should be a new window as the image is linking to an image outside the Framework website

• number of Framework staff

o   Target should be same window as it is linking to a page on the Framework website

o   Advisory title/alternative text needs to be added

Webadmin have made these changes for you.  We are currently creating Tips and Hints which will provide information on how to make your content more accessible.  You will be able to find these in the Webadmin group in the near future.

Kind Regards

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Open Everything

[ image : mitch haile ]

I’m watching the winter Olympics with one eye, rocking the baby gently with one foot, tapping this in with one hand.

One finger actually.

Which brings me to Leigh Blackall’s crys for help amidst his own baby carnage….and assertions that the institution is stronger than the revolutionaires. I’d imagine that it would be hard to accept that being one actually meant that you have to adapt to cage fighting when boxing and it’s routines had humdrummed the sport of brutality into something less cogent and strangely now socially acceptable.

I’ve heard it said( and learnt the hard way ) that criticism is cheap and that shitting in your own nest is cheaper.

Likewise teaching…and learning or both or in opposite orderas the instituition might have it. Stack the chairs, file the students through the door, pat the backs of funny guys wearing feathers and gowns, pay homage to the seemingly unending array of compliance measures, benchmarks, deadlines, slapdowns and any number of ways to describe what to others see as their main opportunity to moved on, ahead…..

“……Oh,but the rhetoric of openness, access, equity and networked futures.”

Rubbish….or at least now you’ve experienced what open everything might mean to those trapped in the pickled concoids of an institution, get on with better describing it rather than lamenting in a historical quagmire.

Go find some local neckbeards who connect cool things together.

Build something big.

Scared

That is what I’m feeling.

It was my 41st birthday today.

Jane, my beautiful wife, Ethan my gorgeous boy and our chubbynewborngiftfromgod, Eamon and I all went to the park after liberal doses of pancakes smothered in butter and Wild Rosella jam. After a nice call from my darling middle daughter Amelia we ventured into what is to be the rest of my life.

My eldest daughter ( yes…thats right, I have 4 children) is sure to say hello in Facebook as any 19 year old would. I would have

So……dinner with friends Mitchell, Tavia and their little son Noah as well as Geoff Lubich, man mountain, business partner and tech confidant all chowed into rare rump, poppyseed cake and potato bake.

Whats happening now ?

Thinking about how to get this Phd application form filled in. Curious as to whether Katina actually exists or is merely a figment of my imagination. Kind of suprised with Bill Wade’s response to my espousing my endeavours.

Getting braver at writing into the ether knowing that this is where I’ll be getting most of my future work done.

Focus.