Careful Color Combos for All
One of the first times I gave much thought to what makes color I was playing with a rainbow suncatcher …
Technology
Short guides on ways new technology can help your professional development, improve your teaching, improve accessibility to your resources, improve your library, and help keep you organized.
Mastering Design and Accessibility with Pictograms (MLS Not Required)
We say a picture is worth a thousand words, but when it comes to data visualization, it’s up to the …
Common Content Accessibility Problems, Part 2: Images and Text Alternatives
Accessible content will always have a good text equivalents for images.
Common Content Accessibility Problems, Part 1: Headings and Links
Content-writers should be alert to these common problems, and know how to avoid or fix them.
The Emergency Connectivity Fund Program
The Emergency Connectivity Fund Program will provide funding to schools and libraries for reasonably priced laptops, tablets, Wi-Fi hotspots, routers, …
Helping Your Community with Internet
With all the scams that exist, it is getting harder to distinguish between things that are too good to be …
Colorado’s new accessibility law HB21-1110 and your library’s website
House Bill 21-1110 makes it a state civil rights violation for a government agency to exclude people with disabilities from receiving services or benefits because of lack of accessibility.
View free WiFi locations in Colorado
Public libraries are helping their community members access the internet to complete essential tasks such as online schoolwork or applying for a job, even if the building is closed to the public. The buildings are just one aspect of the kinds of exemplary library services offered in Colorado.
Descriptive Link Text – Website Accessibility – part 4
Descriptive links are weblinks disguised as descriptive text that is clicked on to go to the place described. For instance, in …
Alt Text – Website Accessibility – part 3
Alt text, also called “alt tags” or “alt descriptions,” is the text that is read by screen-reading tools to describe …
PDFs and Website Accessibility – Part 2
Does your website have links to download PDF documents? Do you make a really sweet looking event calendar and upload …
Website Accessibility
Accessibility… sometimes when I talk about accessibility in libraries folks imagine ramps, wide doors and not stocking items on bottom …
Have you been pwned? – Bag of Tricks
Pwned. Yup, it is a word, not a typo. It is a word from an informal language used on the …
Ransomware – Bag of Tricks
The other day a friend of mine who is the director of a small rural library in another state emailed …
Games For Change – Bag of Tricks
I have always been a video game player, way back since Pong, Asteroids, and Pacman as a matter of fact. …
Fighting Summer Slide – Bag of Tricks
Ah, summer… it is a busy time for libraries! Between the Summer Reading Program and the extra kids utilizing the …
Soup, well, TechSoup in the Bag of Tricks
Budgeting, finding the right solution, finding the person with the expertise to help, having the hardware, creating the plan…these are …
What was there? – Bag of tricks
I am amazed by the speed at which technology develops. I really am. New developments in capacity, speed, and materials …
Oral Histories and Audio recording – Bag of Tricks
I saw a meme the other day that said, “I’m sorry I didn’t answer my phone when you called. I …
Making a habit of Habitica – Bag of Tricks
Habitica is an online task management application that, as its name implies, helps you build habits, end bad habits, and …