Download Web Axe Episode 67 (WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin) News & Events Joe Clark wanted to be listed in Ross' typography blog post Ross in the news (co-working style enviornment) Refresh Detroit meeting November 19 will focus on web accessibility Dennis to speak at Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference; November 11-14, 2008; Boulder, Colorado WCAG 2.0 nearing completion WCAG 2.0 succeeds in test sites, moves to last stage So near to the finish line by Accessify "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on 3 November 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been implemented in real sites. The next stage is the final publication, which is expected in December 2008." Podcasts from Accessibility Conference last spring put on by AbilityNet in UK Download the podcasts, transcripts and summaries of Accessibility 2.0 presentations! CS4 Accessibility Adobe's Favorite CS4 Accessibility Features Notably, Flash video playback controls are accessible by default. John Slatin Fund Project John Slatin Accessibility Fund Project The John Slatin Fund Accessibility isn’t a one-person job "Matches accessibility experts with companies wanting a brief accessibility audit of their websites. In return for the audit, site owners will contribute a minimum of $500 to help fund the medical expenses incurred by John's family during his long illness." Revisiting Screen Resolution Should Web Developers Support 800×600? Less

Security, Software, IT Wade Roush wrote: Boston’s Core Security, a provider of automated penetration software and computer security consulting services, published details today of a flaw in some versions of the widely used program Adobe Reader that could leave users’ computers vulnerable to takeover by hackers. Shortly after the company published details of the vulnerability, Adobe announced a software update designed to fix the bug. The vulnerability, which affects Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat version 8.1.2 (but does not affect the more recent Adobe Reader 9 or Adobe Acrobat 9, released this summer), can trigger a common type of software problem called a buffer overflow. Analysts at Core Security discovered back in May that if an Adobe Reader user opens a specially crafted PDF file containing malicious input for a particular JavaScript function in the program, it could allow hackers to overwrite the program’s memory and execute arbitrary code. The flaw is similar to one that another security company, Secunia Research, discovered last spring in a PDF viewer called Foxit Reader, from Fremont, CA-based Foxit Software. Adobe’s software was initially thought to be immune to the problem, but Damian Frizza, a member of Core’s “exploit writers team,” discovered a second, previously unknown flaw in Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat that made the programs vulnerable to the same kind of attack. The company says it alerted Adobe to the problem on May 27. After several delays over the summer, Adobe finalized a fix for the vulnerability in October, and released it today, in concert with Core Security’s alert about the flaw. “Generally, what we do when we find vulnerabilities that we consider to be significant and novel is that we notify the vendor first, to give them the chance to produce and publish the fixes,” says Ivan Arce, Core Security’s CTO. “Then we coordinate with the vendor and make a plan to publish the information about the vulnerability and the patches simultaneously.” While “we would have liked the fix to come out earlier” in the Adobe Reader case, communications between Core Security and Adobe were good throughout the process, which reassured Core’s analysts that a fix was proceeding apace, Arce says. This isn’t always the rule when security vendors discover flaws in widely distributed commercial software. In an episode we chronicled back in March, Core Security disclosed information about a serious security hole in several programs made by VMware (NYSE: VMW), a subsidiary of Hopkinton, MA-based EMC (NYSE: EMC), before a patch was ready. Core said its disclosure in that case followed months of delays and unfulfilled promises from VMware engineers that a patch was forthcoming. “We had good visibility into what was going on at Adobe, so we had some certainty that the fix was actually coming out” this time, says Arce. “We also didn’t perceive any public exploitation of the problem, even though the previous exploit was in the public domain. We have to balance that risk constantly. In this case we managed to publish the information in a coordinated fashion, without any exploitation happening before the patch was issued.” Comments | Permalink | Share |  E-mail UNDERWRITERS AND PARTNERS Less

http://www.insidegeek.ca - In this video we will be taking a look at three different websites where you can download free Photoshop brushes, we also look at how to install and use these custom brushes. Distributed by Tubemogul. Less

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Newly christened HipLogic, which was formerly known as Numobiq, today launched a software development kit for its cell phone virtualization platform. The company’s product demo looks like several other mobile phone personalization efforts, but is actually a virtual machine running on top of the existing mobile operating system. The end goal, according to Mark Young, HipLogic’s CTO and founder, is to create applications that can truly interact with phones and each other, bringing the same level of functionality to millions of other phones as the iPhone has and the Android will. So far, it’s hard to judge how successful the three-year-old HipLogic will be with its mission, but it raised $4.5 million last January from Benchmark Capital and has ported its Java-based virtual machine to the Windows, Linux, S60 and UIQ mobile operating systems (BREW and RIM will be next). Developers can write applications for the HipLogic virtual machine and have them run on any phones using those operating systems, provided the phone has the HipMobile virtual machine loaded on it. Young says the company will announce applications as well as a download for consumers in the first quarter of next year. Until then he’s being tight-lipped about whether the company has signed any operators as customers, as well as who might offer content on the HipLogic platform. Other companies intent on bringing virtualization to mobile phones include Adobe with its Flash efforts, Opera, and startup VirtualLogix. Since virtualization helps make the more than 1 billion mobile phones out there that aren’t smartphones behave more like smartphones, it’s a promising area for consumers intent on getting more features, and carriers hoping for more data revenue. Less

Sagolla posted a photo: Winner of Best In Show at FlashCamp this year is Avenue Fighter . "Avenue Fighter 2008: Battle for the White House is a political fighting game that is controlled by the current tweets (messages) appearing on Twtter.com. Once running, the game scans Twitter for new tweets containing either McCain or Obama, and weighs the phrase as positive or negative. The weighted phrases are then used to determine each candidate's attacks. Every fight is different. Play it all day and root for your candidate!" Less

Sagolla posted a photo: 13 teams out of 30 demos were awarded cash (amex) prizes. Not pictured: Kitchen Sink. Justin and I felt lucky to be on stage with such a talented bunch. Less

Sagolla posted a photo: Adobe employees had the tough task of judging 13 categories after the Contest demos. Less

Sagolla posted a photo: Judged "Coolest App" at FlashCamp! Built by a team of surfers from San Diego, I will totally use this when it ships. Less

Sagolla posted a photo: They rigged up the Wii remote to control their sound-generator and made some funky tones at FlashCamp. Less

Wer sich nicht früh genug mit dem Thema Keywording oder der Stichwortzuweisung zu seinen Bildern beschäftigt, der steht irgendwann mal vor einem undurchschaubaren Bildarchiv. Ich habe deswegen einfach mal mein Vorgehen beim Keywording in diesem Podcast vorgestellt. (more…) Less

Sagolla posted a photo: So sweet of Momma Mer to bring her son to daddy's event. Oh, the wonder in his eyes! Less

Sagolla posted a photo: I caught Daniel Brusilovsky, 15-year-old podcasting pioneer hugging the Adobe Town Hall video rack during FlashCamp. Less

Sagolla posted a photo: In a highly-anticipated talk, Tony dives into the Inverse Kinematics feature in Flash CS4. And yes, he gave us the source to his demos! Less