tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-84004053595327284372024-03-13T06:45:25.965+01:00Web Technos and TranslationThe world of web technologies is shifting, always renewn, and at the same times always grappling with the same issues, whether it is about development, setting up processes or translating content. That space is dedicated to experience sharing.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18066380918263932431noreply@blogger.comBlogger80125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400405359532728437.post-60389826914356146452016-01-31T11:01:00.001+01:002016-02-07T10:09:07.682+01:00Accessibility and usability of online videos in MOOC context<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Accessibility (ease of access) and usability (ease of use) of online videos are meaningful needs to be addressed, especially in the MOOCs context.<br /><br />
Scientific literature is full of information and best practices about users optimal engagement time, the notions of subtitles and transcripts and their usability under standard situations, whether with disabilities or not.<br /><br />
We have to keep in mind that accessibility and usability complement each other: by meeting the needs of specific users who can represent only a fraction of our visitors, we help all the others.<br /><br />
For instance, when we provide high-quality subtitles for people with hearing impairment, it is also useful for people watching the video in a noisy environment, like in a subway, or in places where noise level has to be minimal, as in an office or at the library.<br /><br />
The chapter I have published in “The MOOC case book: Case Studies in MOOC Design, Development and Implementation” entitled “Towards an Engaging and Usable Video Content: Addressing Accessibility and Usability Issues During Video Development” deals with these issues in the <abbr title="Massive Open Online Course">MOOC</abbr>s context, and is also useful whenever a video content is provided.<br /><br />
After a case studies of five MOOCs proposed on three different platforms, I talk about the state of the art of research in the relevant fields.<br /><br />
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<a href="http://linusbooks.com/?wpsc-product=1527-2">The MOOC case book</a><br />under the direction of Drs. Joseph Rene Corbeil, Maria Elena Corbeil and Badrul H. Khan<br />Linus publications (2015)<br />ISBN: 978-1-60797-561-8
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Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages initiative is getting a lot of exposure since its launch in early October. Let’s see what it is, how it works, and how you can publish your own AMP HTML pages.<br /><br />
In this age of speed, a page that takes more than a few seconds to load is losing its appeal, and this is especially important on mobile phones. The AMP project serves to mitigate this problem. The articles published in this format will be highlighted by Google in its search results from the beginning of next year.<br /><br />
Would you like to know more about it? I invite you to read the full version of this article I have published on SitePoint’s website: <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/an-introduction-to-googles-accelerated-mobile-pages-amp/">Introduction to Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages</a>.
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Let me share with you a few fun facts about Japanese language after a 30-hour intensive Japanese summer class.
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Hosted by <a href="https://www.coursera.org/">Coursera</a>, this <a href="http://www.hci-class.org">Human-Computer Interaction course</a> from the University of California in San Diego is presented by Scott Klemmer, Associate Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science and Engineering. It presents the concepts of prototyping, comparative evaluation, the principles of visual design, of perception and cognition. To sum it up, it helps building human-centered design skills.
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If you are interested in languages and continuing education, why not kill two birds with one stone?<br>
Many online courses are offered around the world in a very wide variety of areas and many languages. Even though English still predominates, you can practice many foreign languages and get used to many accents, improve your understanding and expand your vocabulary while learning specific knowledges.<br>
Here is a selection of a few courses to make you learn and travel.
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With the full title <i>Introduction to Neuroeconomics: how the brain makes decisions</i>, this course available on the <a href="https://www.coursera.org/course/neuroec">Coursera</a> platform is at the convergence of economics, psychology, and neuroscience. It is presented by <a href="http://ch.linkedin.com/pub/vasily-klucharev/12/960/925/fr">Vasily Klucharev</a> from the Higher School of Economics of Moscow (Russia).
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Available on the <a href="https://learn.canvas.net/">Canvas</a> platform, this course is titled <a href="http://datajournalismcourse.net/">Doing journalism with data: first steps, skills and tools</a> and is part of the <a href="http://ejc.net/">European Journalism Center</a> initiative. It is aimed at providing concepts, techniques and skills to effectively work with data and produce compelling data stories.
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We want our visitors to get our content as fast as possible, which means as light as we can, and with the minimum number of requests.
But we want to keep them on our pages, and be entertained. This is where embedding videos enters the scene.<br /><br />
Videos illustrate our textual content, bring life to it, and are often served by a third party. What more to ask? Well, there’s a hidden price tag: they are slow and heavy to download, even when the visitor is not watching them.
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One simple video on a page called through an innocuous iframe can add up to 6 HTTP requests and as much as 450kb of content. The solution I’m proposing can reduce those numbers to 1 request and about 50kb per video, along with a few bytes of JavaScript.
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If you want to know more, I invite you to read the <a href="http://www.sitepoint.com/faster-youtube-embeds-javascript/" target="_blank">full article on Sitepoint</a>.
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<a href="http://technos-web.blogspot.com/2014/08/acceleration-pages-videos-YouTube.html">Accélérez vos pages contenant des vidéos YouTube</a> (full article in French)<br />
<a href="http://tecnologias-web-traduccion.blogspot.com/2014/08/acelere-paginas-videos-Youtube.html">Acelere sus páginas con vídeos de YouTube</a> (full article in Spanish)<br />
<a href="http://tecnologias-web-traducao.blogspot.com/2014/08/acelere-suas-paginas-com-videos-youtube.html">Acelere suas páginas com vídeos YouTube</a> (full article in Portuguese)
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18066380918263932431noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8400405359532728437.post-39203532136354234292014-07-06T14:19:00.000+02:002014-07-29T22:53:51.971+02:00Online Marketing Strategies - Community Manager (MOOC)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Titled <a href="https://www.miriadax.net/web/estrategias-de-marketing-online.-community-manager">Online Marketing Strategies. Community Manager</a>, this course is offered in Spanish. It is structured in four modules dedicated to the community managers: online strategies, blogs and microblogs, social networks and community manager, and online advertising.
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Offered in Portuguese by the Polytechnic Institute of Leiria, Portugal, via its Up2U platform, this course entitled <a href="http://up2u.ipleiria.pt/course/conhecer-as-wcag-2-0-diretrizes-de-acessibilidade-para-conteudos-web/">Knowing the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines WCAG 2.0</a> presents the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines in context. Its authors are <a href="http://pt.linkedin.com/pub/manuela-francisco/4/46/37/fr">Manuela Francisco</a>, instructional designer at the Polytechnic Institute, and <a href="http://iact.ipleiria.pt/member/norberto-sousa/">Norberto Sousa</a>, accessibility and websites validation consultant.
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This course presents the fundamentals of Semantic Web technologies, i.e. how to represent knowledge and how to access and benefit from semantic data on the Web. It is lectured in English by Dr. Harald Sack, a senior researcher at the Hasso Plattner Institute of Potsdam, and is available on the <a href="https://openhpi.de/course/semanticweb">openHPI platform</a>.
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This <a href="https://www.open2study.com/courses/user-experience-for-the-web">Web User Experience</a> course is a MOOC offered by the <a href="https://www.open2study.com">open2study.com</a> website. It is lectured by Amir Ansari, and is part of the Internet Communications Bachelor of Arts.
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Responsive web design is an area with constant novelties and avenues for reflection, often accompanied by concrete examples of code to demonstrate their relevance. Today, we will focus on the problem of tabs, on readability and the length of lines, on the different uses of the devices and their screen size, before glimpsing on what the future has for us.
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Tabular data is an often used layout component that imposes some tricky decisions in a responsive environment. If the table is wider than the viewport, we can enable horizontal scrolling, hide some columns, show a sum up of the table with a link to the full version of it, or we can make other decisions as well.
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The <a href="http://www.open2study.com/courses/online-advertising">Online Advertising course</a> I will talk about is a MOOC offered by the <a href="http://www.open2study.com">open2study.com</a> website. Its lecturer is Patty Keegan, who knows her subject first-hand, and does a great job at introducing it while not being too technical.
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MOOCs (which stands for <i>Massive Open Online Courses</i>) are offered by schools and universities from all over the world in as diverse fields as anthropology, mathematics, marketing, or information technologies. The course we are interested in is entitled <i><a href="https://www.open2study.com/courses/principles-of-project-management">Principles of Project Management</a></i>. It is delivered by the Polytechnic of Western Australia, often shortened as Polytechnic West, a technical and further education institution based in Perth.
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The relaxing sounds of nature have that great way of making us forget all the stress within a few minutes of listening. Here is a selection of sites offering you a deep relaxation.<br><br>
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Social share buttons are about everywhere. Ubiquitous on the web, they invite you to like, share or plus the most insignificant page to help its content being seen by hundreds or, why not, even millions of potential visitors.
But are they as necessary as they want to make believe?
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With the advent of touch screens and their matching interface documentations, it may be difficult to know how to translate the different gestures names (<em>to tap</em>, <em>to swipe</em>, <em>to pinch</em>…).
Windows 8 offers us a translation for each action in its <a href="http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-8/touch-swipe-tap-beyond">on-line documentation</a> when we compare its different localizations.
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The responsive design world is constantly evolving, and with it the W3C recommendations and working drafts, in particular concerning the CSS standards evolution. Typography has its word too, and web font usage brings its share of solutions. This articles brings out a series of relevant links and articles to pursue a <a href="http://web-technos.blogspot.fr/2012/06/responsive-web-design.html">longstanding discussion</a>.<br><br>
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Learning by repeating is a very common useful way of both entertain young children and teach them a bit of arithmetics. Nursery rhymes, or Mother Goose Rhymes, can be aimed at counting, but also addition, subtraction, and multiplication.<br><br>
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FuelPHP is a free open-source PHP framework, based on PHP 5.3+. It implements a HMVC architecture (Hierarchical Model–View–Controller) where the controller plays a central part in the architecture, the view and the model being completely separated (hence they can't communicate which each other). It also offers many other features like a RESTful implementation, template parsing, an Object Relational Mapper, an authentication package and a caching system among other things. We will focus here on the way it handles internationalization in its version 1.5.1 from January 2013. The new 2.0 codebase development <a href="http://fuelphp.com/blogs/category/releases">has already started</a> but it should treat i18n the same way.<br><br>
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This infographic compares the learning difficulty of many languages depending on the minimal time to achieve language proficiency for native English speakers. If languages like Spanish, French or Dutch should need about 600 hours to reach that level, Hindi, Russian, Thai or Greek would need about the double time to get there, and Arabic, Chinese, Korean and Japanese would double agin this time with 2,200 hours of class hours.
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As we have seen in the <a href="http://web-technos.blogspot.com/2012/12/domain-names-big-leap-forward.html">previous post</a> of this series, there has never been a real scarcity of domain name extensions, but a carefully planned creation of new ones to feed the market throughout the years, with the exception of the country code TLDs and their international character set support. Beside the mere cost of a domain name, whether it is a regular one, an internationalized domain, or one of the nearly 2,000 soon-to-be launched over-priced extensions, there are still hidden costs to be aware of, most of them being external ones.
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<a href="http://www.yiiframework.com">Yii</a> (which stands for <i>Yes, it is</i>) is a free, open-source PHP framework started by Qiang Xue in 2008. Aimed at performance, based on MVC architecture, and following the event-driven programming paradigm, it also supports message translation, date and time formatting, number formatting, and interface localization. We will focus here on the way Yii handles the plural form format in its message translation feature in its current release (1.1.13).<br><br>
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