5 Quick & Dirty Clues your site needs an accessibility makeover.- July 31, 2003 90 second reality check: Is your site abusing the visually impaired Opaque Pictures. Hover your mouse over pictures on the page (don't click). Did a little text show up next to your mouse describing the picture If not, -1. The descriptions are called "alt text". Browsers for the visually impaired can read them aloud. Fixed Type. Look at the size of the text on the page. Then use your browser to view the type bigger (In Internet Explorer: View Text.http://dijest.com/emblog/2003/07/5-quick-dirty-clues-your-site-needs.html Microsoft Plays Hiring Hardball.- July 29, 2003 From eWeek. Raiding the competition, depriving them of leadership, innovators, and cutting edge advancement. Paying with cash, stock, titles, freedom, technical resources, and membership in an elite.http://dijest.com/emblog/2003/07/microsoft-plays-hiring-hardball.html If you're the OMB, to whom would you outsource your recruiting portal- July 25, 2003 Who would be on your shortlist to operate the world's largest employer's career site Why Tell me.http://dijest.com/emblog/2003/07/if-youre-omb-to-whom-would-you.html What does centralization mean for U.S. Government recruiting- July 24, 2003 I reported in May 2002 the OMB CTO had human capital on his agenda. He's making good on his Recruiting Portal promise. From Federal Times Online via XtremeRecruiting comes news of "Online Recruitment: New System Promises More Choice, Faster Hires." Let's deconstruct it. links are mine The Bush administration is overhauling the government's online recruiting and hiring process, promising federal managers they will get more job candidates to choose from and...http://dijest.com/emblog/2003/07/what-does-centralization-mean-for-us.html Bill Vick digs deep.- July 19, 2003 Bill Vick, a fellow blogger and a serious student of recruiting, interviewed me for his XtremeRecruiting.org site. Hear the mp3. You can tell that Bill is the kind of gent who plans ahead, who digs deep into his subject. He's using his tools (web, audio, brain) to interrogate labor market practioners and observers. An abundance of views, the better to see the whole picture. His interview bank is like going to a first rate staffing or recruiting conference from the comfort of your computer.http://dijest.com/emblog/2003/07/bill-vick-digs-deep.html Where should you spend your next staffing dollar- July 18, 2003 Phil Windley has a handy rant on the value of IT. Windley, former CIO for the State of Utah, quotes Andrew McAfee of Harvard Business School: It's a matter of whether we're talking about IT enhancing productivity or competition. The telephone has made us able to get more done in a day. Has the phone continued to radically affect the competitive balance among companies No. That's Nick's point. Some kinds of IT fall into that category. For example, e-mail. We all have it; we all use it. But...http://dijest.com/emblog/2003/07/where-should-you-spend-your-next.html iXmatch starts blogging.- July 17, 2003 I love a virgin blogger that takes the plunge. Bret Busse of iXmatch is one of maybe 20 people in the world that are experts on matching technology. These are the tools that compare a million things to a million other things, ranked according to hundreds of criteria. One of the first applications: matching jobs to job seekers based on mutual capabilities and needs. Now the Matching v. Searching blog is born, the rest of us may learn when matching engines should become part of our staffing...http://dijest.com/emblog/2003/07/ixmatch-starts-blogging.html Where's your site's Accessibility Policy- July 9, 2003 Your site may have a privacy policy, but do you have an accessibility policy Read this from Senator John Edwards' presidential campaign site: Web Site AccessibilityJohn Edwards's Web site was designed to be accessible to all visitors. You'll notice clear and logical navigation tools throughout the site. Information should be easy to find. The John Edwards for President Web site follows popular Web accessibility guidelines promoted by industry and the disability community.Visitors with...http://dijest.com/emblog/2003/07/wheres-your-sites-accessibility-policy.html |