Accessibility Hacks Wordcamp Manchester October 2018Graham Armfield
A bunch of small accessibility tweaks that WordPress theme builders can make to improve the accessibility of their products.
Contains a section on making SVG files accessible to screen reader users. And then some CSS techniques that can help trap accessibility gotchas when building themes, and for content authors when they preview posts or pages.
Get Started Developing with Alexa and DrupalAmber Matz
The Internet of Things revolution has ushered in a wave of “Smart Home” devices and gadgets, and with it, new opportunities for creative hacking and software development. The Amazon Echo suite of devices, using the Internet-connected conversational interface commonly known as “Alexa”, is backed by a developer-friendly ecosystem with open source tools, documentation, tutorials, code examples, and a free (as in no-cost) open invitation to developers to create “Alexa Custom Skills” that anyone can download and use with their Echo devices.
In this session, you will learn:
- What to consider when designing a voice user interface
- The various components of an Alexa custom skill
- How to proceed through the custom skill development process
- 3 implementation methods including 2 ways to integrate Drupal data into your skill
To get the most out of this presentation, you should be an intermediate coder, and comfortable tinkering with code. But you don’t have to be a Node expert, a Drupal expert, or a Web Services expert to create a custom Alexa skill. It’s a pretty accessible development experience.
Learning Objectives & Outcomes:
By the end of this presentation, you should feel empowered and ready to create your own custom Alexa skill, with or without Drupal integration.
The Next Frontier: Amazon Alexa - April 2, 2019Caroline Dunn
Slides from the Atlanta SEO Meetup on April 2, 2019
Is voice the next frontier?
Publishing an Alexa Skill for your company could become as ubiquitous as having a website.
Amazon has spent millions in people and resources to sell and put an Amazon Alexa in every household in the US.
https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Alexa-Say-What-Voice-Enabled-Speaker-Usage-Grow-Nearly-130-This-Year/1015812
This year, 35.6 million Americans will use a voice-activated assistant device at least once a month. That’s a jump of 128.9% over last year.
Amazon’s Echo speaker will have 70.6% of users. Meanwhile, Google Home will trail far behind with just 23.8% of the market.
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/just-say-it-future-search-voice-personal-digital-assistants/1392459
In fact, ComScore says that by 2020, 50 per cent of all searches will be voice searches.
https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2018/04/10/voice-search-statistics-2018
3. 13% of all households in the United States owned a smart speaker in 2017, per OC&C Strategy Consultants. That number is predicted to rise to 55% by 2022.
How to get started:
How to get your AWS hosting for free: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/alexa-aws-credits
Testing
https://echosim.io/welcome
Blueprints are a way for users to create Alexa Skills without coding. Users simply select from a menu of templates ranging from Q&A, quizzes, or a flash briefing, fill out the information, and voilà, create a skill without coding.
http://alexa.design/guide
http://alexa.design/docs
https://www.twitch.tv/amazonalexa
http://Alexa.design/slides
https://github.com/alexa
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbx0SPpWT6yB7_yY_ik7pmg
Accessibility Hacks Wordcamp Manchester October 2018Graham Armfield
A bunch of small accessibility tweaks that WordPress theme builders can make to improve the accessibility of their products.
Contains a section on making SVG files accessible to screen reader users. And then some CSS techniques that can help trap accessibility gotchas when building themes, and for content authors when they preview posts or pages.
Get Started Developing with Alexa and DrupalAmber Matz
The Internet of Things revolution has ushered in a wave of “Smart Home” devices and gadgets, and with it, new opportunities for creative hacking and software development. The Amazon Echo suite of devices, using the Internet-connected conversational interface commonly known as “Alexa”, is backed by a developer-friendly ecosystem with open source tools, documentation, tutorials, code examples, and a free (as in no-cost) open invitation to developers to create “Alexa Custom Skills” that anyone can download and use with their Echo devices.
In this session, you will learn:
- What to consider when designing a voice user interface
- The various components of an Alexa custom skill
- How to proceed through the custom skill development process
- 3 implementation methods including 2 ways to integrate Drupal data into your skill
To get the most out of this presentation, you should be an intermediate coder, and comfortable tinkering with code. But you don’t have to be a Node expert, a Drupal expert, or a Web Services expert to create a custom Alexa skill. It’s a pretty accessible development experience.
Learning Objectives & Outcomes:
By the end of this presentation, you should feel empowered and ready to create your own custom Alexa skill, with or without Drupal integration.
The Next Frontier: Amazon Alexa - April 2, 2019Caroline Dunn
Slides from the Atlanta SEO Meetup on April 2, 2019
Is voice the next frontier?
Publishing an Alexa Skill for your company could become as ubiquitous as having a website.
Amazon has spent millions in people and resources to sell and put an Amazon Alexa in every household in the US.
https://www.emarketer.com/Article/Alexa-Say-What-Voice-Enabled-Speaker-Usage-Grow-Nearly-130-This-Year/1015812
This year, 35.6 million Americans will use a voice-activated assistant device at least once a month. That’s a jump of 128.9% over last year.
Amazon’s Echo speaker will have 70.6% of users. Meanwhile, Google Home will trail far behind with just 23.8% of the market.
https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/just-say-it-future-search-voice-personal-digital-assistants/1392459
In fact, ComScore says that by 2020, 50 per cent of all searches will be voice searches.
https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2018/04/10/voice-search-statistics-2018
3. 13% of all households in the United States owned a smart speaker in 2017, per OC&C Strategy Consultants. That number is predicted to rise to 55% by 2022.
How to get started:
How to get your AWS hosting for free: https://developer.amazon.com/alexa-skills-kit/alexa-aws-credits
Testing
https://echosim.io/welcome
Blueprints are a way for users to create Alexa Skills without coding. Users simply select from a menu of templates ranging from Q&A, quizzes, or a flash briefing, fill out the information, and voilà, create a skill without coding.
http://alexa.design/guide
http://alexa.design/docs
https://www.twitch.tv/amazonalexa
http://Alexa.design/slides
https://github.com/alexa
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbx0SPpWT6yB7_yY_ik7pmg
This talk is geared towards users of jQuery plugins who are looking to pick the best plugins and plugin authors who would like a holistic review of existing jQuery plugins and what things to consider when making your own plugins. Marketing tactics and approaches to spreading the word about your plugin will also be discussed.
OpenGL NVIDIA Command-List: Approaching Zero Driver OverheadTristan Lorach
This presentation introduces a new NVIDIA extension called Command-list.
The purpose of this presentation is to explain the basic concepts on how to use it and show what are the benefits.
The sample I used for the talk is here: https://github.com/nvpro-samples/gl_commandlist_bk3d_models
The driver for trying should be PreRelease 347.09
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/80913/en-us
This talk is geared towards users of jQuery plugins who are looking to pick the best plugins and plugin authors who would like a holistic review of existing jQuery plugins and what things to consider when making your own plugins. Marketing tactics and approaches to spreading the word about your plugin will also be discussed.
OpenGL NVIDIA Command-List: Approaching Zero Driver OverheadTristan Lorach
This presentation introduces a new NVIDIA extension called Command-list.
The purpose of this presentation is to explain the basic concepts on how to use it and show what are the benefits.
The sample I used for the talk is here: https://github.com/nvpro-samples/gl_commandlist_bk3d_models
The driver for trying should be PreRelease 347.09
http://www.nvidia.com/download/driverResults.aspx/80913/en-us
UXify 2015 - Front-end Developers' Checklist for Better UXStoian Dipchikov
Good UX has always been one of the key factors for success in the contemporary web development and there fore has led to huge improvements in our industry in the last years. Nowadays the UX of a software product is not responsibility only of the UX Architects / Producers, but to each individual involved in the creation of an app or a website, including the Front-end developers.
The talk presents a summarized list of DOs and DON’Ts, which Stoyan and his team believe should be respected by the Front-end developers if they want to build a useable web product, up to and above industry standards. There will be a lot of case studies and actual examples taken from Despark’s experience in the field.
Natalie MacLees' presentation on Progressively Enhancing WordPress themes from WordCamp Las Vegas 2011. Covers how to implement HTML5, CSS3, ARIA, SVG, and Responsive Design without breaking your theme for anybody.
jQuery Mobile: Progressive Enhancement with HTML5Todd Anderson
An overview of the jQuery Mobile framework and its foundation on Progressive Enhancement, as well as a few techniques on breaking a jQM application from the "traditional" browser.
NinjaScript is a javascript framework for enriching web applications with unobtrusive, persistent JavaScript behavior.
Mizugumo is a ruby gem to making completely gracefully-degrading Rails applications. It uses the NinjaScript framework for rich behavior and integrates it tightly with Rails.
This presentation was given to LA RubyConf on February 5, 2011.
Software Transition from Flash to HTML5 - WebElementMarian Rusnak
My experience with manual transition of software from Adobe Flash technology to HTML5. Describes the process of creating the HTML5 application from scratch as a replacement for the former Flash one. Also contains some tips and techniques used in HTML5 in order to replace Flash alternatives.
iOS and Android Acceptance Testing with Calabash - Xcake Dublinroland99
Sometimes, you would be forgiven for thinking that testing your apps' user interface is not the most fun bit of the whole process of creation. But as a matter of fact, it is, especially if you use interesting tools that help with the heavy lifting and have a freaky domain specific language that makes it straightforward to specify and automate your test cases.
Roland Gröpmair, a regular face at Xcake, will present to us his latest investigations in this area, as part of his talk iOS and Android Test Automation with Calaba.sh.
http://www.meetup.com/Xcake-Mobile-app-development-with-an-Appley-flavour/events/219080531/
Flexible UI Components for a Multi-Framework WorldFITC
Presented at Web Unleashed 2017. More info at www.fitc.ca/webu
Presented by Kevin Ball, ZenDev, LLC
Overview
Learn to build UI components that work seamlessly in every JavaScript Framework.
Your core UI elements shouldn’t have to be different for your marketing site than they are in your application just because the former uses jQuery while the latter is built using Angular or React. In this talk, Kevin will teach you how to architect and build an interactive component that works seamlessly across multiple JavaScript Frameworks.
Objective
Raise the bar for reusable UI components and teach the audience how to build them.
Target Audience
Front-end developers
Assumed Audience Knowledge
Some understanding of JavaScript, and knowledge of at least what JavaScript Frameworks are
Five Things Audience Members Will Learn
The value for your business from creating a framework of portable UI components
The challenges and problems with simply rebuilding UI components from scratch for each environment
The difference between state-driven and imperative approaches to interactive UI components
How to build a multi-framework UI component
How version 7 of ZURB Foundation is using this approach to reimagine its interactive components
Flexible UI Components for a Multi-Framework WorldKevin Ball
Slides from Flexible UI Components talk given at Web Unleashed 2017
Build UI components that work seamlessly in every JavaScript Framework.
Your core UI elements shouldn’t have to be different for your marketing site than they are in your application just because the former uses jQuery while the latter is built using Angular or React.
Lessons learned from work on ZURB Foundation 7.
A Holistic Approach to HTML5 Game Design & DevelopmentKarl Bunyan
A talk given at the 2nd HTML5 Developer Conference in San Francisco tackling the things that the platform gives you for free (or cheap), the issues with HTML5 game development, and finally some ways to work around known limitations such as sound and animation performance.
Touch is now everywhere. It is almost impossible to find a personal computing device without a touch screen. This means developers and designers need to reconsider how to design client interfaces to successfully enable successful touch interactions. Touch involves layout choices, new CSS properties and new touch APIs. This session covers design concepts and how to apply new coding techniques
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Transcript: Selling digital books in 2024: Insights from industry leaders - T...BookNet Canada
The publishing industry has been selling digital audiobooks and ebooks for over a decade and has found its groove. What’s changed? What has stayed the same? Where do we go from here? Join a group of leading sales peers from across the industry for a conversation about the lessons learned since the popularization of digital books, best practices, digital book supply chain management, and more.
Link to video recording: https://bnctechforum.ca/sessions/selling-digital-books-in-2024-insights-from-industry-leaders/
Presented by BookNet Canada on May 28, 2024, with support from the Department of Canadian Heritage.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clients’ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Essentials of Automations: The Art of Triggers and Actions in FMESafe Software
In this second installment of our Essentials of Automations webinar series, we’ll explore the landscape of triggers and actions, guiding you through the nuances of authoring and adapting workspaces for seamless automations. Gain an understanding of the full spectrum of triggers and actions available in FME, empowering you to enhance your workspaces for efficient automation.
We’ll kick things off by showcasing the most commonly used event-based triggers, introducing you to various automation workflows like manual triggers, schedules, directory watchers, and more. Plus, see how these elements play out in real scenarios.
Whether you’re tweaking your current setup or building from the ground up, this session will arm you with the tools and insights needed to transform your FME usage into a powerhouse of productivity. Join us to discover effective strategies that simplify complex processes, enhancing your productivity and transforming your data management practices with FME. Let’s turn complexity into clarity and make your workspaces work wonders!
The Metaverse and AI: how can decision-makers harness the Metaverse for their...Jen Stirrup
The Metaverse is popularized in science fiction, and now it is becoming closer to being a part of our daily lives through the use of social media and shopping companies. How can businesses survive in a world where Artificial Intelligence is becoming the present as well as the future of technology, and how does the Metaverse fit into business strategy when futurist ideas are developing into reality at accelerated rates? How do we do this when our data isn't up to scratch? How can we move towards success with our data so we are set up for the Metaverse when it arrives?
How can you help your company evolve, adapt, and succeed using Artificial Intelligence and the Metaverse to stay ahead of the competition? What are the potential issues, complications, and benefits that these technologies could bring to us and our organizations? In this session, Jen Stirrup will explain how to start thinking about these technologies as an organisation.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Removing Uninteresting Bytes in Software FuzzingAftab Hussain
Imagine a world where software fuzzing, the process of mutating bytes in test seeds to uncover hidden and erroneous program behaviors, becomes faster and more effective. A lot depends on the initial seeds, which can significantly dictate the trajectory of a fuzzing campaign, particularly in terms of how long it takes to uncover interesting behaviour in your code. We introduce DIAR, a technique designed to speedup fuzzing campaigns by pinpointing and eliminating those uninteresting bytes in the seeds. Picture this: instead of wasting valuable resources on meaningless mutations in large, bloated seeds, DIAR removes the unnecessary bytes, streamlining the entire process.
In this work, we equipped AFL, a popular fuzzer, with DIAR and examined two critical Linux libraries -- Libxml's xmllint, a tool for parsing xml documents, and Binutil's readelf, an essential debugging and security analysis command-line tool used to display detailed information about ELF (Executable and Linkable Format). Our preliminary results show that AFL+DIAR does not only discover new paths more quickly but also achieves higher coverage overall. This work thus showcases how starting with lean and optimized seeds can lead to faster, more comprehensive fuzzing campaigns -- and DIAR helps you find such seeds.
- These are slides of the talk given at IEEE International Conference on Software Testing Verification and Validation Workshop, ICSTW 2022.
Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey 2024 by 91mobiles.pdf91mobiles
91mobiles recently conducted a Smart TV Buyer Insights Survey in which we asked over 3,000 respondents about the TV they own, aspects they look at on a new TV, and their TV buying preferences.
Le nuove frontiere dell'AI nell'RPA con UiPath Autopilot™UiPathCommunity
In questo evento online gratuito, organizzato dalla Community Italiana di UiPath, potrai esplorare le nuove funzionalità di Autopilot, il tool che integra l'Intelligenza Artificiale nei processi di sviluppo e utilizzo delle Automazioni.
📕 Vedremo insieme alcuni esempi dell'utilizzo di Autopilot in diversi tool della Suite UiPath:
Autopilot per Studio Web
Autopilot per Studio
Autopilot per Apps
Clipboard AI
GenAI applicata alla Document Understanding
👨🏫👨💻 Speakers:
Stefano Negro, UiPath MVPx3, RPA Tech Lead @ BSP Consultant
Flavio Martinelli, UiPath MVP 2023, Technical Account Manager @UiPath
Andrei Tasca, RPA Solutions Team Lead @NTT Data
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
In his public lecture, Christian Timmerer provides insights into the fascinating history of video streaming, starting from its humble beginnings before YouTube to the groundbreaking technologies that now dominate platforms like Netflix and ORF ON. Timmerer also presents provocative contributions of his own that have significantly influenced the industry. He concludes by looking at future challenges and invites the audience to join in a discussion.
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