Accessibility and Really Simple Syndication
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Roy Tang ☛ Things with RSS Feeds you might not have known about
RSS/Atom feeds are typically used for subscribing to blogs and podcasts, but in theory, any site that publishes items regularly can have them. Here are some you might not have known about: [...]
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Society for Scholarly Publishing ☛ Guest Post — European Accessibility Act: Working Toward Compliance and Beyond
While the EU Web Accessibility Directive of 2016 required EU member states to maintain a standardized set of accessibility standards for website and mobile applications for their public sectors, the EAA extends the focus to the private sector and to a broader range of digital products including ebooks and dedicated software, e-readers, websites, and e-commerce services. The implementation date for the EAA is June 2025 for frontlist titles, with a 5-year exemption until June 2030 for backlist titles.
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Education
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Bertrand Meyer ☛ Niklaus Wirth and the Importance of Being Simple
A peculiarity of my knowledge of Wirth is that unlike his actual collaborators, who are better qualified to talk about his years of full activity, I never met him during that time. I was keenly aware of his work, avidly getting hold of anything he published, but from a distance. I only got to know him personally after his retirement from ETH Zurich (not surprisingly, since I joined ETH because of that retirement). In the more than twenty years that followed I learned immeasurably from conversations with him. He helped me in many ways to settle into the world of ETH, without ever imposing or interfering.
I also had the privilege of organizing in 2014, together with his longtime colleague Walter Gander, a symposium in honor of his 80th birthday, which featured a roster of prestigious speakers including some of the most famous of his former students (Martin Oderski, Clemens Szyperski, Michael Franz…) as well as Vint Cerf. Like all participants in this memorable event (see here for the program, slides, videos, pictures…) I learned more about his intellectual rigor and dedication, his passion for doing things right, and his fascinating personality.
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