23/11/07 - 29/11/07

Our lecturers changed back over this week, and we looked at accessibility in relation to different disabilities and how it's easy to discriminate against them. It's something that I think a lot of people neglect to look at so it definately helped everyone realise that there's a lot more to designing things like websites than just making them appropriate to our needs. One of the topics raised was coulour blind people, and how they would find looking at certain images which we can look at with ease difficult sometimes. We also looked at the second animator vs animation file, which just seemed to relax the lecture a bit considering it's on a Friday afternoon when everybody wanted to be somewhere else. I also took a look at a website mentioned in the lecture for my extra research this week:
www.w3.org/TR/WAI-WEBCONTENT/
And although I haven't actually got round to it yet, I'm planning on taking a look at the mind leaders website because it's been mentioned in more than one lecture:
http://www.mindleaders.com/

I had to spend half of this weeks tutorial doing last weeks tutorial again because I went into the wrong action script version. We had been told about this in a previous lecture but yet again my memory let me down. While finishing it I found that it had a subtle link to programming because we had to add in codes to make the buttons on each page work. But I still managed to move on to this week's tutorial which was tweening again but more advanced ("tween within a tween"), we had to make the word "web" move around the screen and also do something with the word "flash". Although I have to admit I made a few mistakes because I wasn't concentrating as much as I should have been, I was "forced" out down the union last night and was suffering for it a little bit.

I found the lecture helpful the same as any other really because I find that each week we've done a topic that I had basic knowledge of and expanded upon it. Again I knew the basic idea's of web design such as making it attractive to users, but I hadn't previously thought of colourblind people and other disabilities which affect the way we should be designing them. The tutorial was also helpful because after realising that I'd used the wrong action script version last week I got on with both tutorial sheets easily enough. Also, the way in which we are building on what we do bit by bit each week makes it a lot easier to follow.