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Samothraki, as you approach it by ferry from Thessaloniki, rises up out of the Aegean sea like a Child's drawing of the tip of a mountain, which is more or less exactly what it is, except the child that first drew it is by now, very, very old indeed. The mountain is called 'The Moon' (Fengari in Greek) and it slopes straight down into the sea along most of the islands coastline, broad beaches are relatively few and far between. The island, when seen on a map is vaguely egg shaped and solitary in the northeastern Aegean Sea. It is very close to the Turkish mainland, so much so that its airspace is regularly invaded by sorties of Turkish military jets, testing the diplomatic tensions between the two countries. Poseidon was said to have sat on top of mount Fengari to watch the events of Troy unfold on the mainland (now Turkey).
As the island is so steep there is very little land that is suitable for agriculture. One exception is the small spit of land on the north coast adjacent to Kamariotissa the only harbour, this land is intensively farmed. Unlike many other Greek islands there is no shortage of water here, as a result the island is unusually green and lush. Even Homer described the island as "iliessan" or full of trees. It is so verdant that it is easy to imagine being in the midst of a classical Greek myth, walking by tumbling waterfalls in sylvan glades, expecting a satyr or a nymph to appear at any minute. This is particularly true of the north side of the island where a large river, known locally as 'the murderer' winds it way between waterfalls and deep pools through a dense forest of plane trees. It is hard to imagine why the idyllic river has gained such a wicked reputation, that is until you look up into the trees and spot the rotted remains of goats, caught high in the branches, hoisted by the sudden flood waters rushing down from the 'moon'.
If such tales of woe regarding goats sadden you, don't worry, a few days on Samothraki and you will develop a different attitude towards them. It is estimated that there are between 80,000 and 100,000 goats wandering the island, approximately 500 goats per square kilometre, they seriously outnumber the population of 2,723 people at 33 goats per person. This massive number of goats is in a way testimony to the amazing fertility of the island, because it is still verdant even though goats eat everything. The novelty of seeing groups of goats climbing on cars, on the beach, on everything, and the magical sound of 100,000 distant, and not so distant, goat bells at night has to be heard to be believed. I do have one friend who has stopped going to Samothraki, he says it is because he can no longer bear to see such a beautiful place ravaged, not by tourists, but by goats.
This brings me to a dilemma. I am protective of places that I like, that still seem untouched by tourism. I thought long and hard about writing this, not wishing to produce an advertisement. In the end I consoled myself with the fact that the people in Samothraki want visitors to support their economy (at least some do), and decided to try to describe the island rather than the holiday destination. If you should decide to go and visit, please go prepared to respect the island and its inhabitants, even the goats.
Having hopefully discouraged the average consumer of holidays, there are some important details that need to be said regarding tourism. Samothraki has no tourist infrastructure, I do recall seeing one hotel in an out of the way location, but to travel here you will need to be resourceful. As with most Greek islands there is a surprising amount of available accommodation, although its quality varies, you may well end up sleeping in someone's front room, or you could get lucky and find a small house all to yourself. There are some truly amazing tavernas, but they aren't all neatly presented along a single street, you will have to search to find them. Nightlife is limited to friends that you have made, or if you are lucky a special Rembetika evening in a bar. When I went last, there was only one bank, and it clearly felt no compulsion to provide money to tourists, it was after all there to serve the local agricultural co-operative, I was forced to get the ferry back to the mainland (a full day round trip) to visit a cash machine (My heartfelt thanks to the wonderful café owner who lent me enough to get by for a few days). You can spend a few weeks on Samothraki without hearing another English voice, although chances are you will hear German and Italian spoken, and there are quite a few young Greek backpackers. Numbers of young Greek backpackers increase for the yearly Greek folk music festival.
The small area of land that is under cultivation is farmed in a way that is more reminiscent of France, except for the presence of wild tortoises, and the farmers all seem to share their vehicles and equipment, which are owned collectively through the local agricultural co-operative. The south of the island has extensive olive groves and a beach.
The harbour town of Kamariotissa is very small, but it has shops and a few cafes, and of course the daily ferry to Kavalla. It has the look of an Eastern European soviet era town, despite the inherent tendency of the Greeks to beautify everything with bougainvillea. Spend any time on the island and you will realise that Kamariotissa is a necessary place to visit for thousands of reasons, the small supermarket being about 500 of them, petrol being another.
One look at Kamariotissa and you realize that it hasn't been there very long, perhaps only a century or so. Chances are that you will begin to wonder where the people lived before this small coast hugging settlement was developed, if you are only there for a ferry hopping visit the answer could escape you entirely because the 'Chora' that you come to expect on any Greek island is very well hidden, and for good reason. The history of the Island since the fall of the Byzantine Empire is one of piracy, and terror from the sea, as a result the main town began life as a refuge hidden in a small depression half way up the mountain. The town, Chora, is still invisible from the sea and most of the island. Upon entering the town one is greeted by a densely packed tumble of small dwellings clinging to the walls of a small natural amphitheatre. The buildings are unlike the classic white architecture that you might expect; instead they resemble the more northerly buildings of Thrace and even Macedonia, the earth colours reddened by the mosaic of tiled roofs that are secured with small boulders. The overall effect is one of organized chaos, with steps and doors and windows and outcrops of rock making it hard to tell where one building begins and another ends and very few areas of flat ground. Most of the buildings here in Chora appear to be very old, in fact the whole town is preserved and protected as a heritage site by the government in Athens. Chora feels like a community trapped in time, and the feint antipathy felt between the town and the harbour seems to revolve around which community lives in the real world, it is very difficult to decide which is correct. Overlooking the pass into the secret town there is a large tower or small fortress, built by the Venetians when they protected the island, a close look at the walls will find it to contain mysterious fragments of classical Greek architectural carving, some of which are quite exceptional.
There are 10 other small settlements on the island including, Paleopolis, Xiropotamos, Therma, Profitis Ilias, Lakkoma, Alonia and Kariotes but they are very small.
Samothraki was not always as peripheral as it appears today, this is evidenced by the visible remains of a huge ancient city cloaking the fields to the north west of the island. These are the remains of a massive walled city that grew up to service one of the most essential destinations of the ancient world. The site of the city shares its name Paleopolis (old town) with a scattering of dwellings hugging the coast downhill, which you could easily mistake for an unfinished holiday home development. Both of the Paleopolii don't manage to make you want to get off the track to visit them.
So why did millions of ancient Greeks see it as a duty to visit this island? The answer is a secret, one that nobody knows the answer to, despite all that is known about this holy site of pilgrimage bordering on the scale of the hajj. The site is the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, the centre of a mystery cult that reached the corners of the civilized world and rivaled those of Delphi and Eleusis, ranked alongside Dodoni, Olympia Delos, Meteora and Holy Mount Athos. Unlike other mystery cults of the ancient world the cult based at Samothraki was open to any who wished to be initiated, even slaves. It is known that Herod, Lissindus King of Sparta and Phillip of Macedon were initiated, while Alexander the Great visited the Holy Altar and donated ritual buildings. Several Egyptian queens are linked with the site including Arsinoe and Cleopatra. During the period of Roman Empire occupation, the Sanctuary faced a new period of growth up to 200 AD. In 49-51 AC even the apostle Paul passed through Samothraki (I wonder what for).
The focus of the thousand years of attention lavished on this island is still there, and it still holds a strong sense of place, it is located in a shallow green valley with a small river cutting through the centre of a sacred grove. A tight cluster of ruins survive thanks to the efforts of archaeologists, these are focused around a central boulder of purple porphyry that is set in a shallow dip at the corner of a temple. Exactly what happened at this place, nobody quite knows, Initiates were sworn to secrecy and without exception they kept the vow. Evidence suggests that a long, highly complex theatrical ceremony took place, during which the initiate was symbolically returned from the dead, after having bull's blood poured over them, dancing and feasting ensued late into the night. The initiation into the secrets of the Kabeiroi (the mysterious group of ancient gods at the heart of the ritual) had three stages, the second and third are unknown. As an ancient site this is one of the most intriguing, the buildings and temples are all mysterious in their purpose and strange in shape, there are many surviving details that just about offer tantalising clues to what might have occurred here. One building was erected around a trireme warship from Paros, its keel shape still visible. The most famous archaeological find from this site is the Winged Victory of Samothrace, which for some strange reason is now in Paris (The Louvre).
The influence of the great gods is still strong on the island, the great mother who was honoured in the sanctuary by libations of blood and oil is still remembered in the names of certain pools, the goats are all from the old mothers flocks and distinctive marks on the rocks from the hot sulphur springs on the island are known as the 'old woman's cloths'. At the summit of the moon if you stand in just the right spot you will be able to see the terrifying faces of the Kabeiroi, shown to you by the shadows and the mists of the mountain.
Samothraki is a beautiful remote island. It can become very claustrophobic if you need external stimulation, or even if you go there just wanting to relax. The island has endless scope for discovery, but its lack of infrastructure will leave you without any means of research or information other than what you can glean from local people, who are without exception interesting friendly and hospitable.
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Dubz a fucking General. If we sicked those beasts like @doslavozes @Geedorah @B whun @Twamp on you, shit could get ugly...
You've never been to b&h, have you? Because you'd know cops over there won't let foreigners pass without money being extorted. The rest is irrelevant gibberish to the topic at hand. You seem baffled at "hate lazy people". Yes, the money I pay for taxes gets handed down to aforementioned ones for a variety of ish. Neither.
nothing wrong with hating lazy people unless they mentally,or are physically fucked up. She didn't say she hated unemployed people going on hard times. If that's the case that means she hates me because i'm flat out broke until I take these classes for my job
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MV, would it help you at all if everyone knew your rep was "artificial"... I mean is this a serious request? I mean theoretically speaking it's something I can do. I just don't see it was being that beneficial, especially since rep power is no longer correlated with current rep. (Before your reps were more powerful if you had a higher rep, and if you had negative rep you couldn't rep anyone)


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Many a good sales professionals as well as marketing professionals I knew back in the '80's and '90's adopted the valued practices of understanding the buying process, profiling their customers/buyers, discovering buyer constraints, understanding the buyer's decision criteria, and adopting KSF (Key success Factors) factoring in marketing and sales planning. From Push to Pull.
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Here is a key issue facing organizations today: each time a new social technology is introduced, it ultimately alters the buying behaviors of the new social buyer persona. Have organizations today kept pace with the changes in buying behaviors and patterns? Buying behaviors, patterns, and goals have and will continue to undergo further evolutions.
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Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis issued the following statement on the Bureau of Labor Statistics report released today on Employee Benefits in the United States, a component of the annual National Compensation Survey:
"For the first time, in order to better understand the benefits available to an increasingly diverse American workforce, this year's survey includes information on domestic partner benefits. This comprehensive report will be of significant interest to employers and workers alike. It provides a better, fuller picture of employee benefits in workplaces across our nation.
"The bureau's Office of Compensation Levels and Trends should be commended for the successful completion of this year's survey of more than 15,000 establishments in the public and private sectors, as should the groups and stakeholders that worked with the bureau to incorporate new questions on domestic partner benefits. Together, they've made sure that the National Compensation Survey truly reflects the diversity of work and workers in the United States."
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The Cedar Grove Mennonite Church (MC) in York County, Ontario began in the early 19th century. From about 1824 the grounds were used for burial purposes. In 1861 Samuel Reesor, grandfather of L. J. Burkholder, and owner of the property, built a frame meetinghouse and gave it to the Mennonite Church. Regular services are recorded for this since after 1867. The preaching was in German until 1882. Cedar Grove was neighbor to the Reesor Wisler Mennonite Church and served the members of the Mennonite Conference of Ontario in the southeastern part of Markham Township, York County.
About the year 1864 a Sunday school was opened by neighbors and conducted for several years, and again in 1887 a union Sunday school was organized at this place and carried on until 1895. In 1896 a Mennonite Sunday school was organized which, with a few interruptions between 1905 and 1932 when the Wideman Sunday school served both churches, was regular at Cedar Grove.
Ministers who served here were Samuel Hoover of Ontario County; Samuel R. Hoover of Markham; John G. Hoover; Lewis J. Burkholder, and A. Lorne Burkholder. At this place Oscar Burkholder was ordained to the ministry in 1912. Here Samuel G. Reesor, a deacon, expired in the pulpit while at prayer on 10 August 1913. Other deacons who served at this place were Jacob G. Reesor, Isaiah Hoover, Amos Burkholder. The 1952 membership of this church was 39.
Cedar Grove joined with Steeles Ave. Mennonite in 1986 to form the Rouge Valley Mennonite Church; the new group met on the former Cedar Grove site. The meetinghouse was located on the west side of 10th Line of Markham Township north of Steeles Ave.
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Mennonite Reporter (7 January 1985): 12.
Burkholder, L.J. A Brief History of the Mennonites in Ontario. Kitchener, ON: Mennonite Conference of Ontario, 1935: 107-111.
Congregational Records at Mennonite Archives of Ontario.
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Name | Years of Service |
Samuel Hoover | 1870s-1893 |
Samuel R. Hoover | 1888-? |
John G. Hoover | 1892-? |
Lewis J. Burkholder | 1896-1946 |
A. Lorne Burkholder | 1940-1958 |
George Elsasser | 1958-1960 |
Laurence Martin | 1962-1964 |
Glen Brubacher | 1965-1981 |
Lawrence Burkholder | 1982-1986 |
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Year | Members |
1925 | 25 |
1950 | 45 |
1965 | 35 |
1975 | 42 |
1985 | 49 |
Author(s) | Joseph C Fretz |
Sam Steiner | |
Date Published | 1953 |
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Fretz, Joseph C and Sam Steiner. "Cedar Grove Mennonite Church (Markham, Ontario, Canada)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1953. Web. 26 Mar 2017. http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Cedar_Grove_Mennonite_Church_(Markham,_Ontario,_Canada)&oldid=142663.
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Fretz, Joseph C and Sam Steiner. (1953). Cedar Grove Mennonite Church (Markham, Ontario, Canada). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 26 March 2017, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Cedar_Grove_Mennonite_Church_(Markham,_Ontario,_Canada)&oldid=142663.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, and Kitchener, Ontario, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 1, p. 537. All rights reserved.
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Thirty-four U.S. billionaires have today pledged to give away at least 50 per cent of their wealth to charity as part of a campaign by investor Warren Buffett and Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
Among the billionaires joining the campaign are New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, entertainment executive Barry Diller, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, media mogul Ted Turner, banker David Rockefeller and investor Ronald Perelman.
The Giving Pledge was started in June by Mr Gates, whose
Campaign starters: Billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett, right, are inviting others to join The Giving Pledge
They wanted to persuade hundreds of U.S. billionaires to give away most of their fortune during their lifetime or after their death and to publicly state their intention with a letter of explanation.
'We've really just started but already we've had a terrific response,' Mr Buffett said in a statement.
'The Giving Pledge is about asking wealthy families to have important conversations about their wealth and how it will be used.
'We're delighted that so many people are doing just that - and that so many have decided to not only take this pledge but also to commit to sums far greater than the 50 per cent minimum level,' he added.
The full list of billionaires and their letters can be seen at www.thegivingpledge.org.
The Giving Pledge does not accept any money but asks billionaires to make a moral commitment to give away their wealth to charity.
Mr Bloomberg wrote in his Giving Pledge letter: 'I am enthusiastically taking the Giving Pledge, and nearly all of my net worth will be given away in the years ahead or left to my foundation.
'Making a difference in people's lives - and seeing it with your own eyes - is perhaps the most satisfying thing you'll ever do.'
The billionaires announcing their pledge today join real estate and construction billionaire Eli Broad, venture capitalist John Doerr, media entrepreneur Gerry Lenfest and former Cisco Systems chairman John Morgridge who have already committed to giving away most of their wealth.
Mr Buffett, who made his fortune with insurance and investment company Berkshire Hathaway Inc, Mr Gates and his wife, Melinda, held several dinners with a couple of dozen rich Americans in the past year to urge them to make the pledge.
Mr Buffett pledged in 2006 to give away 99 per cent of his wealth to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and family charities.
Bill and Melinda Gates have so far donated more than
Since the foundation began in 1994, it has given away more than
'I've long stated that I enjoy making money, and I enjoy giving it away,' Mr Pickens said in his Giving Pledge letter. 'I'm not a big fan of inherited wealth. It generally does more harm than good.'
Forbes said the U.S. is home to 403 billionaires, the most in the world
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Crime Scene Investigation: Performance Task Day 2
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Objective: SWBAT synthesize information from multiple resources to make a valid claim.
Sifting through evidence
Each group has received the confidential folders. Now you may take out the news report and pictures. You must share these in your group, but you may write on these. I expect to see annotations and thoughts written down. Pull out your reading from yesterday to help you when making decisions. In about 10 minutes, you will spend the rest of your time recording all of your information to make your final decision.
At this point, I'll be moving around to listen in on the thoughts and ideas the kids have. I'm so excited to hearwhat they think about everything. I won't be helping at all, as this is more of a performance task. I want them to figure all of this out with the help of their peers.
Now that you have had a chance to look through everything, Michael will discuss your recording sheet.
At this point, my students are doing a lot of the teaching, so a student will be reviewing the expectations for filling this out. You can see a few examples here. I won't be helping them as they work, but I will be moving around the room to get an idea of what kiddos are on the right track of finding the correct suspect. This is such a real world application of just about every informational text standard, and it's fun. With all of the standardized emphasis in teaching now, I just refuse to make learning boring for the kids. This is what we want them to be able to do, and I want to do so much more of it next year.
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Proving our Claim
The kiddos will line up according to who they chose as the suspect. The 4th grade teachers are all in their rooms on their lunch break to let us search their rooms. I asked the teachers to help us speed this up by being out of their room if the DEFINITELY didn't do it. A few kids did choose those rooms even though the evidence clearly did not point in that direction. I filmed the two rooms that most of the kids picked. It was so much fun to watch.
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To wrap up the whole activity, I want my kids to summarize the lesson by completing this shaping up graphic organizer. I like this because it gives them a few things to think about to summarize when we're wrapping up the lesson. It serves as good feedback for me, too. A lot of kids said one thing they loved about the lesson is how fun and exciting it was. Asking them what they feel was important to learn helps me see if they are just "playing" or if the activity was actually teaching them something.
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When you hide material from visual display on a PC screen, you almost always hide it from screen readers too. See also Speech Stylesheets . Test results from testing in 2003 are shown further down in this article. More recent test results, from June 2005, are available on Bob Easton's .
As we move from tag soup to CSS governed design, we throw out the layout tables and we throw out the spacer images. Great! It feels wonderful to do that kind of house cleaning. So, what do we do with those "skip navigation" links that used to be attached to the invisible spacer images? A few famous web designers have begun using regular text links for skip navigation and then hiding them from visual display with CSS display:none.
This technique has a certain appeal. If it would work as we hope, accessibility links can be made to be heard but not seen. We could even add more expanded information targeted directly to people using assistive technology. Further, we could place that information in elements, like headings or lists, that have strong semantic value and are easily found by screen readers, especially those that have hot keys for reading headings and lists. The promise is very alluring, and I am certain the designers who have used this technique have the best of intentions.
The results are in:
The technique does not work as expected. With rare exceptions, the three most used screen reader programs do not discover, and do not speak the material hidden with display:none. The people you are trying to reach with this technique will never hear it, nor see it. If you threw out the previous technique (images with links), you have actually regressed.
How do we know?
I turned to accessibility gurus and to people who use screen readers everyday, asking them to try my Screen Reader Visibility Test. Summary results are below. While we wait to hear about more screen readers, the evidence is very clear. The display:none technique fails in the most used screen readers.
How did we get here?
First and foremost, the difficulty is with the screen reader products, none of which honor aural style sheets, and few of which pay any attention at all to CSS standards. Many of the screen readers appear to use Internet Explorer's DOM api to let IE tell them what it sees. Talk about listening to the blind men describe an elephant! Now we know.
Open memo to screen reader publishers: It is long past time to start building products that comply with W3C standards. The first of you who honors CSS, and especially aural media style sheets, will win the hearts, minds, and vocal support of designers who want to optimize accessibility in their designs.
What next?
What would we really like, and how can we accomplish it? From what we see at a few of the major CSS governed sites, it is clear that the designers would like accessibility conveniences to be heard but not seen. Perhaps the ideal way of achieving that is to:
- hide from visual display as is currently being done, with display:none in the style sheet intended for screen media, and
- speak with speak:normal; in the style sheet intended for aural media. The hope here is that the aural style sheet will have a higher precedence for the part of assistive technology that speaks.
The downfall, of course, is that the screen reader publishers don't yet pay attention to media="aural". We need to help them become aware. If you have contacts at those places, point them here or to the tests.
Late Breaking Breakthrough
Henry, the Old Actor, directs Mortimer in Abduction Ballet, "No no no, OFF LEFT, damm it!" (The Fantastiks). The off-left technique looks like a fine replacement for display:none. This came to me originally from Choan Gálvez on the css-discuss list. I extended it. Then, Dave Shea reduced it. The result works with Jaws 4.51, Window-Eyes 4.5 (beta), IBM Home Page Reader 3.02. Visually, it works as expected (content hidden, no extra whitespace) in Safari 1.0, Camino 0.7, Mozilla 1.3, Mozilla 1.4, Firebird 0.6, Opera 6 Mac, Opera 6 Win, Opera 7 Win, IE 6 Win, IE 5.2 Mac, NN4(!!!).
.off-left { position: absolute; left: -999px; width: 990px; }
The beauty of this technique is that it enables using as much text as we feel appropriate, and the elements we feel appropriate. Imagine placing instructive text about the accessibility features of the page off left (as well as on the site's accessibility statement). Imagine interspersing "start of..." landmarks through a page with heading tags. Or, imagine parking full lists off left, lists of access keys, for example. Screen readers can easily collect all headings and read complete lists. Now, we have a made for screen reader technique that really works!
However, this technique does not negate the need to consider other assistive features that cater to other disabilities, such as keyboard assistance for the mobility impaired. Be careful when using off-left to avoid causing other accessibility problems.
You may have to adjust the width so that your page element's bounding box appears on screen, even if the text is far offscreen. 990px width may not work with all elements.
The next best ways to leverage CSS and standards based thinking include:
- Use good structural markup. All screen readers have fast ways of reading headings and lists.
- If at all possible, place main content high up in the html source.
- Joe Clark reminds us to not hide the SKIPNAV link because it is useful to others, not just the blind.
If you have other ideas of how to be heard but not seen, let me know and I will add them to the test suite.
Screen Reader or user agent | linked | imported | aural | empty link | off-left | notes | ||
display:none | visibility:hidden | display:none | visibility:hidden | display:block | ||||
heard/seen | heard/seen | heard/seen | heard/seen | heard/seen | heard/seen | heard/seen | 1,2 | |
Jaws 4.51 with IE6 | no/no | no/no | yes/no | yes/no | no/no | yes/no | yes/no | 3 |
Jaws 5.00.297 (beta) | no/no | no/no | yes/no | yes/no | no/no | yes/no | ?/? | 3 |
Jaws 6 | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | yes/? | yes/? | |
Window Eyes 4.211 | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | yes/no | |
IBM Home Page Reader 3.01 | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | yes/no | |
IBM Home Page Reader 3.02 | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | yes/no | |
pw Web Speak | yes/yes | yes/yes | yes/yes | yes/yes | yes/yes | yes/no | yes/yes | 6 |
Connect Out Loud 2.0 | yes/no | yes/no | yes/no | yes/no | yes/no | yes/no | yes/no | 7 |
HT Reader 3.5 | yes/? | yes/? | yes/? | yes/? | yes/? | ?/? | ?/? | 6 |
Start Speaking - Mac OSX w/Safari | yes/no | yes/no | yes/no | yes/no | yes/no | no/no | yes/no | |
Microsoft Narrator- Win2k w/IE6 | no/no | no/no | yes/no | yes/no | no/no | yes/no | yes/no | |
Lynx | na/yes | na/yes | na/yes | na/yes | na/yes | na/no | na/yes | 4 |
Opera's accessibility layout | na/yes | na/yes | na/yes | na/yes | na/yes | na/no | na/yes | 5 |
Opera's small screen pda emulation | na/yes | na/yes | na/yes | na/yes | na/yes | na/no | na/yes | 5 |
MSN TV | na/yes | na/no | na/yes | na/no | na/yes | na/no | ?/? | |
MAGic Screen Magnifier & IE6 | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | no/no | ?/? |
A very special "thank you" to all who took time to contribute their observations to these results!
- Styles coded as embedded or inline in the html behave identical to having the styles within linked style sheets.
- @import occurring within a linked style sheet produces results identical to having the @import directive in the <style> element of the html.
- Jaws speaks these only because it does not heed imported style sheets. When Jaws does learn to import style sheets, it will not speak these either.
- Sometimes used with screen readers.
- Not a screen reader, but indicative in some ways.
- I am *guessing* that these products do not read CSS.
- Almost too good to believe! Aimed specifically at Internet users, maybe this Freedom Scientific product is paying attention to standards?
Bob Easton , September 26, 2003
Come to that, there is some value in having a visible link to the main part of the page (or wherever it is that the link *skips to* - the next navigation point. It is a pity that the use of the link element to build an internal table of contents isn't implemented by IE, or it would be a sensible alternative, it is implemented in a lot of other browsers. --chaals
Tom Gilder's technique seems to solve the problem for me - and works nicely for people without mice - but it would be good to be know the results of exhaustive testing on that, too. -- Graham Seaman
Update: no, this technique kills all other links on IE5 on Mac. All links become effectively dead. :-(
The screenreader or/and tool webformator has an option to show invisible content or not, which is important if you try to use that software for testing purposes. The position%absolute method like described here is a little risky, information about the problems can be found here position error and with a alternative here K.Lipfert-Barrierefrei. Display or screen errors may happen at Gecko by using larger "em" instead of "px". IE 4 and NC 4 may need other methods too. Geckos behaviour at Windows 98 may be a bug and is reported here Bugzilla. -- K.Lipfert
A reference is made here to "three most used screen reader programs". What are they? A bigger question is, what are the best demos or free screen readers developers can use to test things like speak:spell-out? Connect Outloud 2 demo (basically the internet version of JAWS, demo lasts for 24 total hours of use) and Window-Eyes demo (30-minute timeout). Are their free, demo, and/or popular apps for Linux and Mac? -- Rock Of Victory (2005Jun1)
- As a small followup, apparently Emacs/W3 (multiplatform) and Emacspeak (Linux) are two of the few browsers that actually provide aural CSS support; seem to be for the major techno dweebs, though.
- Firevox (http://www.firevox.clcworld.net/) provides some speech synthesis support for Mozilla Firefox and is multi-platform (Linux, Windows etc.), but it uses very non-standard keys.
- We have also created Text browser tool for website accessibility tests. This could support speech synthesis in future using one of the open source engines.
I'm very glad people are thinking about accessibility, but I believe that your reading of the CSS standard is incorrect. Here is CSS2, section 9.2.4, the display property
noneThis value causes an element to not appear in the formatting structure (i.e., in visual media the element generates no boxes and has no effect on layout). Descendant elements do not generate any boxes either; the element and its content are removed from the formatting structure entirely. This behavior cannot be overridden by setting the 'display' property on the descendants. Please note that a display of 'none' does not create an invisible box; it creates no box at all. CSS includes mechanisms that enable an element to generate boxes in the formatting structure that affect formatting but are not visible themselves.
Failing to speak display:none
elements is therefore correct behaviour, and using display:none
to hide things from sighted users is incorrect. I've checked CSS3 and it says the same thing: "The element is not rendered. The rendering is the same as if the element had been removed from the document tree" CSS3 The Box Model
I develop the WebbIE web browser for blind people so I'm particularly interested in this. At present I follow the standards as I understand them: however, if the use of display:none
becomes dominant to hide navigation links I will be forced to break the standards to improve usability. -- Alasdair King
- A follow-up: Isn't the point of CSS that you can render the page independently of its structure? So you can put the title and the main content at the top of the HTML document, and you don't even need the skip-nav link! -- Alasdair King
- Not so. If your content comes first, you should then provide a link to skip to the navigation instead of a skip to the content link. -- Zoe Gillenwater
Alasdair has a definite point here and I'm surprised people even THINK of using [display:none] for this (and then complain when stuff disappears from DOM). What's wrong with using [visibility:hidden]? I know that using [visibility] would leave something visibly on the page (namely whitespace) but that can be circumvented with positioning/scaling, just as one would position and scale those spacer images. Consider:
a.accesslinks { position:absolute; left:0px;top:0px; width:0px; height:0px; visibility:hidden; }
this would effectively render the link as if it had [display:none] but it would still be available within the DOM. Using [z-index] would even enable one to hide it behind the real content stack, with the screenreader none the wiser.. --Patrick Kanne
@Alasdair: Isn't one of the main points of the article that these screen readers lack standards, by not interpreting the "media" link? If they respect the standard, the CSS code should be completely 'invisible' (no pun intended) to the screen reader. And about what's wrong with visibility:hidden: I think the example code looks more like some ugly hack than it would be with display:none. With display:none the object is not inserted into the tree, and that's exactly what the developer wants for those clients for whom the stylesheet is intended (not the aural media). -- Allard Naber
@Patrick Kanne: I tested it with NVDA (an open-source screenreader) and for that, at least, it doesn't work. I don't expect others to do better. Screen readers read the screen, even with some integration. To them, "visibility:hidden" has the same effect as "display:none". The obvious argument is that if nothing is displayed on the screen, nothing should be read. The counterargument would be that the designer intended for it to be invisible, but still audible when read -- the problem is that there's no way to tell that that was the designer's intent. Getting it wrong for the most common case (that the designer wasn't considering accessibility) would be undesirable.
@Allard Naber: the problem is, again, that screen readers read the screen. What you're saying would apply to aural browsers, but those are a slim, slim minority. Most screen reader solutions just hook into a visual browser and thus try to render content exactly as a screen browser would, just read out loud.
What might be the easiest compromise for now is for browsers to offer the option of turning off CSS altogether. To non-blind users with accessibility needs this may make sites look decidedly less attractive, but it's better than nothing. In Firefox, this can be done with View -> Page Style -> No Style for individual pages, and there's probably some obscure about:config setting to do it globally. For other browsers, no idea.
As an aside, I find it both funny and tragic that this wiki uses an ASCII-art captcha that renders it inaccessible. And is that a "U" or a "V"? Sigh. --JM
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MOUNT PROSPECT, Ill., Dec. 18, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The AWARxE® Consumer Protection Program encourages consumers to move medications from their medicine cabinets into a secure area for the holidays to protect loved ones. It is not uncommon when guests visit that pain pills, stimulants, and tranquilizers are removed from medicine cabinets to support prescription drug abuse habits. According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, more than 50% of prescription drug abusers got them from family and friends for free. And sadly, prescription drugs are the most commonly abused drugs among 12 to 13 year olds.
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Young teenagers do not realize that prescription drugs, when not taken according to a doctor's directions, can be deadly. Some teenagers secure pills from unsuspecting friends, parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, sisters, and brothers, and go to a Pharm Party or a Skittles Party where all those who attend throw various pills into a bowl. Then each teen grabs some pills and ingests them. The pills they take could be anything from Ritalin®, to Tylenol® with Codeine, to Vicodin®, to Xanax®. Taking such combinations could lead to serious injury and even death. Sometimes they mix the pills with alcohol, which can be deadly.
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Stable isotope analysis of safety matches using isotope ratio mass spectrometry - a forensic case study
Farmer, N.L. and Meier-Augenstein, W. and Kalin, R.M. (2005) Stable isotope analysis of safety matches using isotope ratio mass spectrometry - a forensic case study. Rapid Communications in Mass Spectrometry, 19 (22). pp. 3182-3186.
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Isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) was used to assess what contribution the technique could make towards the comparative analysis of matchstick samples within the 'normal' framework of a forensic investigation. A method was developed to allow the comparison of samples submitted as a result of an investigation, with the added advantage of rapid sample turn-around expected within this field. To the best of our knowledge this is the first time that wooden safety matches have been analysed using IRMS. In this particular case, bulk stable isotope analysis carrried out on a 'like-for-like' basis could demonstrate conclusively that matches seized from a suspect were different from those collected at the scene of crime. The maximum delta(13)C variability observed within one box was 2.5 parts per thousand, which, in conjunction with the error of measurement, was regarded to yield too wide an error margin as to permit differentiation of matchsticks based on C-13 isotopic composition alone given that the 'natural' C-13 abundance in wood ranges from -20 to -30 parts per thousand. However, from the delta(2)H values obtained for crime scene matches and seized matches of -114.5 parts per thousand and -65 parts per thousand, respectively, it was concluded that the matches seized were distinctly different from those collected at the crime scene. Copyright (c) 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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Notes: | Meeting of the Stable-Isotope-Mass-Spectrometry-Users-Group, Toronto, CANADA, APR 10-OCT 13, 2005 |
Keywords: | safety matches, isotope analysis, isotope ratio, mass spectroscopy, Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General), Organic Chemistry, Spectroscopy, Analytical Chemistry |
Subjects: | Technology > Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) |
Department: | Faculty of Engineering > Civil and Environmental Engineering |
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Information grows exponentially each year and 2016 will be no different for the information management industry. With information now in multiple formats, it is becoming exceedingly challenging to effectively manage it all. The influx of data has made it easier for companies to fall victim to compliance violations, data loss or security breaches because they neglected to establish proper information governance.
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Lateran Concordat of 1929 - Papal Wound Healed!
Italy and the Roman Catholic Church have healed wounds!
November 15, 2002
Excerpt from an article by NICOLE WINFIELD, Associated Press:
ROME--Pope John Paul II made a historic speech to Italy's parliament Thursday, urging Italians to work for world peace, uphold their Christian values and have more babies.
The visit--the first time a pope has appeared before the Italian parliament--underscored the warmth that the country feels for the Polish-born John Paul, the first non-Italian pontiff in 455 years.
It also showed Italy and the Roman Catholic Church have healed wounds that a century ago prompted popes to call themselves ''prisoners'' of the Vatican rather than accept Italy's government as legitimate.
On February 11th, 1929, an historic treaty was signed between the Italian Government and the Vatican re-establishing the political power and diplomatic standing of the Catholic Church, which had been lost when Italy seized Rome, the last of the Papal States, on September 20th, 1870.
By ARNALDO CORTESI.
Wireless to THE NEW YORK TIMESROME, Feb. 11.--The Pope is again an independent sovereign ruler, as he was throughout the Middle Ages, though his temporal realm, established today, is the most microscopic independent State in the world, and probably the smallest in all history. — THE NEW YORK TIMES, Tuesday, February 12, 1929
Benito Mussolini reads his credentials prior to signing the Lateran Treaty on behalf of King Victor Emmanuel III. Cardinal Gasparri (seated), signed on behalf of Pope Pius XI.
Mussolini signs the Lateran Pact of 1929, which brought into being the Vatican City State. |
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The seals and signatures of Benito Mussolini and Cardinal Gasparri.
Postcard commemorating the Lateran PactFor 59 years the Pope was a virtual prisoner in the Vatican, never leaving it until the pact was signed, resolving the "Roman question". Known as the Lateran Treaty or Lateran Concordat of 1929, this was the momentous event prophesied in the book of Revelation:
Cardinal Gasparri and Benito Mussolini (seated) after exchanging treaty ratifications
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Text of the Lateran Treaty of 1929.
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Prompted by a health scare and an academic shake-up, zoologist and amateur Bigfoot researcher Dr. Jeremy Fishleder goes on sabbatical and plans a road trip around the country to places of strange repute. Three students decide to join him and, as they delve into the wilds of earth and steel, together they discover secrets hidden in the shadows of outer as well as inner nature.
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He has conquered the planet but earth will have to wait for another year. Roger Federer's hopes of joining the greats by adding a Grand Slam title on terre battue to those he holds on fast courts and grass were ground into the red dust here in Paris yesterday by a foe who is becoming all too familiar.
Rafael Nadal, the raging bull of clay-court tennis, retained his French Open crown by beating Federer 1-6, 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 in three hours and two minutes of sun-baked drama.
The world No 1, attempting to become the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to hold all four Grand Slam titles, made a scorching start, only to be worn down by Nadal's indomitable spirit and unrivalled ability to make his opponent play the extra shot. It was the first time Federer has lost the final of a Grand Slam event, having won on all his previous seven appearances.
In Nadal, Federer has come up against a rival who, on this surface at least, has truly got his number. Since losing to the Spaniard in last year's semi-finals here, Federer has been beaten by him in four successive finals, including three on clay.
Each match has ultimately followed a similar pattern, with Federer going on the attack, constantly looking to force the pace, and Nadal defending with dogged resolution. The Spaniard forever retrieves balls on which others might have given up, forcing his opponents into mistakes or finally hitting winners of his own. At least Federer is in good company, for this was the Spaniard's 60th successive win on clay.
Federer thought he had been getting closer to the world No 2 when he had two match points in Rome last month, but this was the easiest of the Spaniard's clay-court victories over him this year. "I wasn't as consistent as I was in Rome or even in Monaco," Federer said. "He managed to break me quite easily and I should have returned better on his serve."
The Swiss did not hide his disappointment at failing to complete his set of Grand Slam crowns but said he was pleased to have made the final. "It's obviously my goal to win this event and I got a step closer than last year. Every year that goes by gives me more maturity on this surface."
Nadal became the first player in the Open era to win Roland Garros titles at his first two attempts, an extraordinary achievement for a 20-year-old, yet it was Federer whom the public took to their hearts.
The world No 1 has an elegance and apparently effortless panache that the French love in their sporting heroes and whenever he got into trouble cries of "Roger! Roger!" rang all around Philippe Chatrier Court.
In blazing sunshine at changeovers the players draped towels packed with ice around their necks Federer in particular seemed keen to avoid long points. He targeted the Spaniard's backhand, which produced a stream of errors in an uncharacteristically loose first set.
Federer had chances to make early breaks in both the second and third sets, but each time Nadal recovered from 0-40 down. On the second occasion Federer promptly dropped his own serve by missing three regulation forehands and a simple smash. "I was nervous in the first set and I think he felt nervous later on," Nadal said.
The Spaniard quickly regained his composure, however, and even started attacking in one service game he started playing serve-and-volley as Federer, making frequent backhand errors, suddenly looked vulnerable. Nadal broke in the first game of the fourth set and when he dropped only four points in his next four service games to lead 5-3 the end seemed very close.
There was to be one final twist. Two mishit Federer backhands took Nadal within two points of victory at 30-15, but a lucky net cord brought parity before the Swiss won a point of breathtaking brilliance. Having out-Nadaled his opponent by chasing down shots on both flanks, Federer won the point after the most delicate of drop shots and an equally exquisite stop volley.
When Federer won the next point to level at 5-5 the crowd rose to new heights of frenzy, but it was only delaying the inevitable. Federer broke first in the tie-break but then lost two points in a row on his serve with a poor attempt at a drop shot and a loose forehand. Nadal served out for victory, secured with a smart drive volley.
The Spaniard lay on his back in the clay he so adores, shaking with emotion at his achievement, before climbing into the stands to celebrate with family and friends. At the presentation ceremony he stressed his admiration for his opponent "Roger Federer is the most incredible player I know" but in this court at least there is only one king. Considering he has only just passed 20, it will be remarkable if a string of further records do not fall to him in future years.