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The Forgotten Ones: Bassists for the Rolling Stones and Website Performance
In the scope of any project work, website performance often takes a back seat to more visible deliverables. To put it another way, website performance is the bass player in the Rolling Stones. Everyone knows he’s there, but he’s overlooked. While Mick and Keith are...
Cultivating Some Love on Valentine’s Day
Back in the day at St. Mary’s Catholic Elementary School, one of my favorite holidays was Valentine’s Day. The nuns happily allowed us a half hour break from classes to distribute our miniature missives – I suspect they thought it was a novel way to utilize our Palmer...
New Ideas from Strategic Services – January 2017
Our Charity Dynamics retained strategic services clients receive weekly status updates that allow us to plan and track initiatives that help our clients reach their digital communication and fundraising goals. Each week, we share the most innovative ideas we see in...
Web Accessibility: Getting Started
Improving your organization’s approach to web accessibility is essential in order to provide an inclusive environment for anyone who visits your site, including people with disabilities. In earlier posts, we discussed the definition and importance of web accessibility...
Accessibility: Understanding One Layer at a Time
Now that you have a better understanding of POUR, you should start to learn what criteria it takes to pass each and have your website accessible. Like I said earlier, all things in our world have layers, some complicated, some not. Within POUR, each principle has a...
Accessibility: POUR it on thick!
With so much of our lives taking place online anymore, web accessibility, or the ability of those with disabilities to access the web just as fully as those without disabilities, is becoming increasingly top of mind for businesses and organizations (and legally...