Okie law set to come into force. 25 May 2012Last updated at 20:22 ET The cookie laws were drawn up to help privacy on the web Thousands of UK websites are now in breach of a law that dictates what they can log about visitors. European laws that define what details sites can record in text files called cookies came into force on 26 May. Cookies are widely used to customise what repeat visitors see on a site and by advertisers to track users online. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said it would offer help to non-compliant sites rather than take legal action against them. Action plan The regulations say websites must get "informed consent" from users before they record any detailed information in the cookies they store on visitors' computers. Among websites that have complied with the law, getting consent has involved a pop-up box that explains the changes.
UK firms have had 12 months to prepare for the change and the ICO has spent much of that time reminding businesses about their obligations. The School Information (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2012. Statutory Instruments Education, England Laid before Parliament 20th April 2012 Coming into force 1st September 2012 The Secretary of State for Education makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 537 and 569(4) of the Education Act 1996(), and section 92 of the School Standards and Framework Act 1998(): Citation and commencement 1. Amendment of the School Information (England) Regulations 2008 2. (1) The School Information (England) Regulations 2008() are amended as follows. (2) In regulation 2 (interpretation)— (a)insert the following where they fall alphabetically— ““key stage 1”, “key stage 2” and “key stage 4” are the first, second and fourth key stages of the National Curriculum as set out in section 82(1) of the Education Act 2002; “phonics schemes” are schemes for understanding the correspondence between graphemes and phonemes;”; and (b)in regulation 2, omit the definition of school prospectus. (3) For regulation 10, substitute— (b)in paragraph (2)— 1. 2.
Podcast: Cookie law next steps - legal expert and university web manager. TextOpus - all text tools You need! 18 Usability Resources for Librarians. Librarians are increasingly taking part in Web design efforts, usability testing, focus groups, and more in an effort to deliver an engaging user experience to their patrons. If you’re just learning about UX or you’re a seasoned pro these 18 articles, tools, websites, and blogs will help inform your usability initiatives.
Articles How to Fix the 5 Most Common Mistakes with Focus Groups Jay Eskenazi writes for UX Magazine about How to Fix the 5 Most Common Mistakes with Focus Groups. Ten Guidelines for Quantitative Measurement of UX Richard Dalton writes for UX Magazine about Ten Guidelines for Quantitative Measurement of UX. Personas: The Foundation of a Great User Experience Kevin O’Connor, President of User Insight writes for UX Magazine about Personas: The Foundation of a Great User Experience. The Importance of Designing an Experience Culture A Reference Service User Experience – Tell Me More Content Strategy & Writing for the Web The Evolved User Experience Tools 24 Usability Testing Tools. Wufoo: Online Form Builder - Create Web Forms & Surveys. Mbedr - Embedded Flickr Notes. A Flickr photo embedding utility This utility will allow you to embed a photo from Flickr on your own site while retaining any annotated regions present on the original.
See the example below. If the photo you want to include on your site doesn't have any annotations ("notes", as Flickr calls them), then don't bother using this utility, as it's pointless. Only public photos can be used with this utility at the moment. In the field below, enter the Flickr photo number of the photo you want to embed.
For photo size, select the dimension of the largest side you want. Alternately, drag the link at the left to your favorites or toolbar, and when you're at a flickr page with a photo you want to embed, click on it. Here's an example: Here's how the same photo looks when using the embedding HTML Flickr provides: 2008.02.22 —Josh Larios. Bellsnwhistles.com - Animated Graphics, Animated Pictures, Backgrounds, and More. Avatars - Create an Animated Talking Character for Your Website. Accessibility at Google. iLancaster. Check Browser Compatibility, Cross Platform Browser Test - Browsershots. pForm - Free HTML Form Builder - Create Web Form Template Online. Graphic & Web Design Bits Archvies | Veerle's blog 3.0 - Webdesign - XHTML CSS | Graphic Design.
Veerle's blog, creativity catalyst and design inspiration Skip to content Graphic & Web Design Bits Archives One for the bookmarks: MobileMozaic. View this outside link If I need a special icon my first stop is The Noun Project. View this outside link Lovely experiment with a responsive product slider for an online store. This is a cool little project. Learn to create a responsive 3D menu concept for a restaurant web site. Simple way to create CSS arrows for tooltips and the like. Beautiful handmade type. Experimenting with typographical styles by using lettering.js. A collection of novel UX/UI work. I own the icon set ‘IcoMoon’ + the icon font generator is super handy as well. Smart thinking & great new gesture idea by Simurai. Some really gorgeous hand lettering done by Martin Schmetzer from Stockholm, Sweden.
Fresco is a nice responsive lightbox script. Typicons, 308 all-purpose vector icons. Experimental CSS3 3D scroll behavior. Experiment with scrollable photo strips. Next About me. Walidator.com - XHTML, CSS, RSS validator. Entity Code - A Clear and Quick Reference to HTML Entities Codes. Lorem Ipsum - All the facts - Lipsum generator. Accessibility Updates for Docs, Sites and Calendar.
Posted by Naomi Black, Technical Program Manager, Accessibility Earlier this year, members of the blind community shared a powerful message with us about the importance of accessibility. On the Official Google Blog today, we announced some accessibility enhancements to our products, including new keyboard shortcuts and improved screen reader support in Google Docs, Google Sites and Google Calendar. For blind students and employees who rely on assistive technologies to access the web, we hope these improvements will make it easier to use our products. To answer your questions and discuss how today’s product updates affect blind users in businesses, governments and schools using Google Apps, we’d like to invite our enterprise customers to join us for a webinar on September 21. HTML Codes - Table of ascii characters and symbols.
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