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Resource: How Do I Know If My Web Project Is Accessible?

From the post: How Do I Know If My Web Project Is Accessible? by Michael Beil I did a talk on accessibility this past Monday evening at Madison JavaScript, hosted at Widen Enterprises. The entire keynote is now over on Speaker Deck, so I thought that I would share it with you here. Here’s a list of […]

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Resource: The Medical Heritage Library

The aim of the UK Medical Heritage Library (UK-MHL) Project is to provide free access to a wealth of medical history and related books from UK research libraries. There are already over 50,000 books and journal issues in the Medical Heritage Library drawn from North American research libraries. The UK-MHL Project will expand this collection […]

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Resource: An R Client for the Internet Archive API

From the resource: In support of some of my research projects, I created a simple R package to access the Internet Archive’s API. The package is intended to search for items, to retrieve their metadata in a usable form, and to download the files associated with the items. The package, called internetarchive, is available on […]

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Resource: Access Monitor – WordPress Plugin to Monitor Accessibility

From the post: Here at ProfHacker, we’ve written several posts over the years about accessibility, about WordPress, and about WordPress and accessibility. For a variety of reasons, it’s important to make digital resources usable by the widest range of people you can, and ensuring accessibility is an key part of that process. (As many of […]

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Resource: MoEML launches Experimental Map Interface (Beta)

From the announcement: MoEML is excited to announce the launch of a beta version of our new hi-resolution, zoomable experimental Agas map interface. We encourage you to play around with the map and send us feedback on both its function and design so we can improve it before launching it officially later this year. Some […]

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Resource: Provoke!: Digital Sound Studies Collection

The Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI) at Duke University announces the launch of Provoke!: Digital Sound Studies.  Provoke! is a web collection of digital projects focused on sound studies, digital humanities, and the audio arts. See the collection here: Provoke!: Digital Sound Studies

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Resource: Using Grunt to Automate Repetitive Tasks

From the post: Riding a tangent from my previous post on web performance, here is an introduction to Grunt, a JavaScript task runner. Why would we use Grunt? It’s become a common tool for web development as it puts together a number of tedious but necessary steps for optimizing a website. However, “task runner” is […]

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Resource: Introducing DocSouth Data: Old Texts for New Readings

From the announcement: When the UNC Library launched Documenting the American South (DocSouth) in 1996, the project helped set the standard for publishing historic texts online. Nearly twenty years later, DocSouth is poised to reach a new set of readers—the computers that digest and find patterns in immense bodies of text through techniques known as […]