Category Archives: Advocacies

<form> function() & .class on September 2011!

Posted Monday, August 1st, 2011 01:28 pm GMT +8 | Events |

Philippine Web Designers Organization is bringing back <form> function() & .class this year! It’s going to be on September 10 and 11, 2011 (yes, that’s 9/11) and will have 3-hour awesome workshops on HTML5 and CSS3, Javascript, Usability and Design by the country’s leading designers and front-end developers. There will also be talks on Business, Mobile Dev, Branding, and future trends. Speakers include Dan Matutina, Rico Sta. Cruz, Jason Torres, JP de Guzman, Allan Caeg, Drei Gonzales and John Leyson. Since the format totally changed, thanks to AIM for accommodating our last minute request BTW (they’re awesome!), the price will have to reflect said change as well. So this year, the payment scheme will be as follows: Early Bird (ends September 3): PhP 1,500 per day PhP 2,000 for 2 days Walk In: PhP 2,000 per day (no discount for 2-day signups) Note that to prevent long lines and annoyed … Continue reading →

Airphilexpress’ pricing bug

Posted Tuesday, December 7th, 2010 06:41 pm GMT +8 | Usability |

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The past year, I realized that I love traveling as much as I love airline seat sales, I follow a number of airlines like Cebu Pacific, PAL, Tiger Airways and Air Asia for all the seat sale goodness. On the 23rd of November, Air Philippines Express announced a seat sale, a one-way fare of 1,888 from Manila to Singapore. For something that usually costs 5,000 Philippine Pesos and up, that’s already a steal! So, as usual, I hurriedly tested how much this will cost me since my friend and I are planning a trip there anyway. I like the fact that you can a number of days so you can choose from them, unlike Cebu Pacific’s standard practice of making me click and wait to see other days. I didn’t know that there’s going to be a stop over but I thought that it’s fine, that’s what you get for … Continue reading →

The Basics of Accessibility

Posted Sunday, April 6th, 2008 03:37 am GMT +8 | Accessibility |

It makes me feel a little sad whenever I see people saying that making your website accessible is such a waste of time and resources because it only deals with the blind. When, in fact, that is one of the misconceptions about accessibility. What is Accessibility? Just look for its root word — access. It doesn’t only mean that blinds and other visually-impaired people should be your focus when it comes to making your site accessible. It means making every people using any kind of browsers, any kind of devices to browse the web, any kind of settings on their browsers, no matter how slow or fast their connection is must be able to view your site just fine. Accessibility is not only making your site well-structured that those using screen readers won’t be exasperated in using your site but also making your site accessible to: people who have problems … Continue reading →