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Results of a survey of screen reader users - current as of January 2009

oEmbed is a format for allowing an embedded representation of a URL on third party sites. The simple API allows a website to display embedded content (such as photos or videos) when a user posts a link to that resource, without having to parse the resource directly.

USB Safely Remove is a USB device manager. It saves time and extends user abilities on active work with flash-drives, portable drives, card readers and other gadgets.

"MediaCore is a free open source video, audio, and podcast publishing platform. It is built for organizations who wish to distribute media in a variety of formats on their website while maintaining the ability to control the user experience."

tagedit offers an easy way to add, edit and delete lists of keywords. Keywords can be brought to the user with a autocomplete list.

Log.io is a real-time log monitoring in your browser. Harvesters watch log files for changes, send new log messages to the server, which broadcasts to web clients. Users create stream and history screens to view and search log messages.

Web Performance Load Tester is a powerful and easy to use tool that will allow you to automate load testing and generate reports to help you analyze the performance of a web site. The 10 virtual user version, which is full featured, is free to use and is ideal for identifying pages that exceed a threshold value for further investigation.

This blog post describes how you can validate that users do not create internal links to items with no layout details

Chosen is a javsacript plug-in makes long, unwieldy select boxes much more user-friendly. It is currently available in both jQuery and Prototype flavors.

Combogrid, like autocomplete, when added to an input field, enables users to quickly find and select from a pre-populated list of values as they type, but in a tabular and paginated manner. Combogrid provides keyboard navigation support for selecting an item

Every once in a while our customers ask if it's possible to terminate a publishing job. A demand for this functionality increased as our customers started pouring more and more content into their Sitecore implementations. Sometimes an innocent publishing job could become vicious and freeze other publications. In this blog post I'm going to present an approach that allows a user to cancel a triggered publishing job. This became possible as new publishing pipelines were introduced in Sitecore 6.

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Block a users' UI when processing something

There are several bugs in Internet Explorer that can be worked around by forcing "a layout" (an IE internal data structure) on an element (like, dimensional bug fixes and Holly hack). Most users are not aware of the implications of having "a layout" applied to an element. This document explains what happens when an element has a layout and what implications that has