Signing the web

Is your site truly accessible? Are you providing the best possible service to all your visitors?

I expect you’ve taken the first step, and perhaps your site is accessible to level A (or even AA). But have you considered taking the extra step, and providing accessible charting in your investor section, transcripts for all your video or audio sections on site, or providing a sign language translation for your webcasts and videos?

There are up to 70,000 users of British Sign Language (BSL) in the UK, and up to 500,000 users of American Sign Language (ASL) in the US. This is a big constituency which you should perhaps be considering.
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7 steps to Yes: do I want to work here?

Last time I suggested some ideas to help your prospective recruits find out something about what your company does.

Their next step will be to decide whether they would like to work for you.

Step 2: “Would I want to work for this company?”

Answering this question is a chance to sell your corporate culture. What is so special about your company? Why would someone want to work for you, rather than for your competition?
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5 stages of development of corporate RSS Feeds

Not all companies have yet ‘got’ the value in providing RSS feeds, and don’t provide any at all; at the other extreme, some companies provide multiple RSS feeds, including feeds of podcasts, speeches and other tailored streams of information.

There is definitely a trend towards providing more RSS feeds, and providing feeds tailored to a particular audience.

I’ve noticed that major companies tend to fall into one of five different groups, depending on where they are on the RSS curve:
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BT: browser incompatability

Something has gone wrong with the BT corporate home page. It should look like this, as it does in IE7:

but in Firefox, it looks like this:

Some of the text has exploded out of its allocated space. Please fix it - I’d much rather browse in Firefox.

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