Last but not least, we have also improved some of our accessibility features. The Overlay widget now prevents focus from going to other elements when set to "modal", InfoPanel has better ARIA support and the Slider widget has more intuitive keyboard access for screenreader users.
Leigh Dodds, Platform Programme Manager, gives the following screencast to demonstrate using the Talis Platform to use rich RDF features on the BBC’s /programmes and /music sites.
Glow isn’t the BBC’s first JavaScript library, although it is the first to be released as open source software.
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a simple vocabulary for describing programmes. It covers brands, series (seasons), episodes, broadcast events, broadcast services, etc.
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The future for the BBC lies in the technology that can open it up to the world, just as technology gave it life last century. In the corporate world, Facebook, Apple and Google have launched platform services that allow external developers and companies to build services using their code - but the BBC is uniquely placed to use those same principles to create a cultural and commercial resource for the nation.
'The BBC can be an open source for all of UK plc', there's a particular focus on possible commercial applications or start-ups building services around BBC content or code
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>> But the masters of classical pithiness were the Spartans of Greece. It is said Philip of Macedon once sent a hostile message to the Spartans saying something along the lines of "if I bring my army down to Sparta, I will knock down the walls and kill everybody". The Spartan oligarchs reportedly sent back the one-word reply "if".
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You may find this useful. Shell script for listening to bbc radio feeds via mplayer, nice and short. “bbc 1″ plays bbc 1.
La présence d’un configurateur d’apparence vient palier à ce problème. Il est désormais possible de pouvoir intervenir sur l’apparence du site afin de le rendre le plus facile à lire pour la vue. Inversion des couleurs, texte en blanc sur fond noir, changement de contraste, tailles des polices, typographies, tout est ici paramétrable ! Une visualisation en directe permet de se rendre compte du résultat avant validation.
Une initiative similaire avait été présentée lors des ateliers Paris Web 2007 pour le musée Beaubourg et son site adapté au public handicapé.
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