WAVE – Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

Now here’s a nifty tool!

WAVE – Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool

WAVE is a free web accessibility evaluation tool provided by WebAIM. It is used to aid humans in the web accessibility evaluation process. Rather than providing a complex technical report, WAVE shows the original web page with embedded icons and indicators that reveal the accessibility information within your page.

Finally, a quick way to see exactly how badly your poorly-designed website is getting mangled by screen readers.

Food goes bad when?

The ‘best before’ challenge … One man boldly goes beyond the use-by dates on his food

British, not American, dates, but I suspect the theory still stands on this side of the pond. There are a lot of conversations in my house about the difference between “when in doubt, throw it out” and “for God’s sake, it’s fine, eat it.” One thing that they don’t mention here are leftovers — which definitely don’t hold up anywhere near as well as the food when it arrives from the supermarket.