The Department of Justice is the governmental agency tasked with enforcing compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, and strangely enough, the DOJ are now proposing “Web Standards” for ADA compatibility.
I run another blog called Urban Semiotic and over there we look at issues rotting the urban core.
This WordPunk blog concerns writing about words in the wilds.
We are textual.
We are not the image.
Is it possible for text to be semiotic?
Or is the word always text — even as an image?
Know this universal warning: Beware of words and their meaning! Words are tricksy. Text is culturally malleable!
A UK associate and I exchanged email the other day. I live in the USA. He lives in the UK.
Laughter is a great salve against the pain within and threats from the outside in — but laughter can be hard to effectively communicate in a text form — so, to assist you in the release of antigens against the toxins, I have created: The Universal Guide for Textual Laughing.
There is no greater fun than playing around with Text-to-Speech on the AT&T Labs website.
Text-to-Speech has great advantages for aiding the communication needs of the disabled: Those without voice are given one; those who cannot see can hear text. Text-to-Speech can also be used in the everyday world of the ordinary consumer. I have visited the AT&T Labs website to have phrases like “Janna is calling!” made into .WAV files.
I just added the Contextual Related Posts Plugin to your favorite Urban Semiotic blog. Now when you click on a post title you can see a list of other related posts from the past down near the comments box. Fantoostic! This gives new life to forgotten thoughts and brings them up out of history to reshape the present.
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