Re: [backstage] backstage.bbc.co.uk TV Schedule competition

on this, so I will get back to you with some more thoughts and action points on my part, once I am able to gauge where we stand (and thus what we need to do differently next time). Many thanks Ben Metcalfe Project Lead, backstage.bbc.co.uk Jonathan Chetwynd Accessibility Consultant

Re: [backstage] Developer jobs

Matthew, Smileys were invented for those people, many of whom have no sense of irony and wouldn't know a joke if it sat on their face. a wild guess but as your email is .co.uk you can't be one of them cheers Jonathan Chetwynd Accessibility Consultant on Learning Disabilities

Re: [backstage] Weather feeds

In fact I have it on excellent authority that the Met office use SVG in their back office, but that their clients require other formats Thy rely on paying customers and that is apparently why they don't yet provide an SVG front-end. regards Jonathan Chetwynd Accessibility Consultant

Re: [backstage] iMP

, and this was no exception. I hope this has cleared up any misunderstanding that may have occurred, and I apologise if I was not clear in any of my previous emails about this matter. All the best, ~: ps if you know what this means, please let me know, I'm only the designer. Jonathan Chetwynd

[backstage] iMP: accessibility, is the smell really that bad?

for accessibility at iMP and which groups representing people with disabilities were invited to comment? Could this be an integral part of the BBC's regular best practice? cheers! Jonathan Chetwynd Accessibility Consultant on Learning Disabilities and the Internet 29 Crimsworth Road SW8 4RJ 020 7978 1764

Re: [backstage] It's good night from him... (+ IMPORTANT INFO!)

Ben, Thanks so much for your time and commitment. I guess you'll let us know more of your plans at http:// www.benmetcalfe.com from the outside it's difficult to see the politics inside any large corporation. best wishes Jonathan Chetwynd On 9 Jun 2006, at 12:28, Ben Metcalfe wrote

[backstage] feeds with live graphics?

be great if a feed could provide something similar. cheers Jonathan Chetwynd ** http://www.lifelonglearning.co.uk/mosergroup/rep01.htm - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial

Re: [backstage] feeds with live graphics?

Graeme, a picture of a beardy man can be used by an interested person without reading skills to select text for a screen or text reader to read, for example. a feed with a link to a graphic isn't re-distribution of the graphic. regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 9 Jun 2006, at 20:17, Graeme

Re: [backstage] feeds with live graphics?

to provide online content accessible to the 20% of the UK population who are functionally illiterate.** though I am also not a lawyer, please note the BBC are specifically included. regards Jonathan Chetwynd **I'm forwarding a formal objection to the proposed WCAG2 web accessibility guidelines

[backstage] Re: Urgent WCAG2: formal objection: final draft

Richard, it appears that the attachments may have been stripped, try this BBC internal link: http://diversity.gateway.bbc.co.uk/ look for the BBC's December 2005 report into learning disabled audiences and the media: Not seen, not heard. regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 13 Jun 2006

Re: [backstage] feeds with live graphics?

into effect in December 2006. Successful implementation of this duty is essential if we are to make disability equality a reality. regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 12 Jun 2006, at 23:31, Matthew Somerville wrote: Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: the application I am describing, promoting and developing

Re: [backstage] feeds with live graphics?

an online presence. regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 13 Jun 2006, at 09:46, J.P.Knight wrote: On Mon, 12 Jun 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] In fact, I think there was a blog about this, which poked fun at the BBC's stock image usage - bunny something or another. The Beeb's news site used

Re: [backstage] feeds with live graphics?

Jason, that is mad and fantastic.. Text in a large font for a similar area of screen estate may be equally abstract... Police 'stormed in like burglars' we may know where, but the photo of M below says far more than the text, but best is both ~: regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 13

Re: [backstage] feeds with live graphics?

Matthew, sorry was replying to DED rather than CA would that be double indemnity ~: cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 13 Jun 2006, at 09:20, Matthew Somerville wrote: Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: given the BBC's remit might this mean they need to ensure that they have copyright clearance

Re: [backstage] feeds with live graphics?

examples, though many more are currently offline. also http://www.e-democracy.gov.uk/products/icons.htm has some SVG examples with crown copyright, which isn't exactly the same, but similar... regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 13 Jun 2006, at 13:50, Graeme Mulvaney wrote: The symbolworld site

Re: [backstage] feeds with live graphics?

David, there are some pretty fundamental differences... you might also want to look at Makaton and PCS also there is the Concept Coding Framework, which is a proposed means of translating between symbol languages. regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 13 Jun 2006, at 14:24, David Burden wrote

[backstage] Native to a Web of Accessible Data?

Native to a Web of Data thanks for that Peter, and Kim for pointing it up! what fun, with some clarity, but... Does Tom fail to mention accessibility? or was it just me. cheers ~: Jonathan Chetwynd with 254 validation errors on the homepage, yahoo.com may have a way to go. - Sent

[backstage] Native to an Accessible Web of Data?

to mention accessibility? or was it just me. cheers ~: Jonathan Chetwynd with 254 validation errors on the homepage, yahoo.com may have a way to go. - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01

[backstage] web clip, myBBC 82038

Something similar to OS X web clips might help end users repurpose BBC content. of course the BBC version will be fully accessible, OS independent and a web page ~: cheers Jonathan Chetwynd http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/dashboard.html - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] Google Maps Geniusness

Isn't it reassuring to know that MI5 is reading our emails? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4778575.stm mind you they seem to have got the wrong end of the stick... cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 8 Aug 2006, at 10:56, Jason Cartwright wrote: http://www.isoma.net/games/GogglesBeta09.swf J

Re: [backstage] Anyone else having trouble accessing backstage?

yup ~: Jonathan Chetwynd On 17 Sep 2006, at 17:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm getting a server proxy error... Patty Seybold - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial

[backstage] hedging the weather

to scientism or scientistic tendencies, more like pure guesswork of a pretty vague and less than helpful sort? cheers Jonathan Chetwynd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html

Re: [backstage] hedging the weather

, though in fact overcast 13:00 sunny intervals, though in fact totally overcast with heavy downfalls. regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 25 Sep 2006, at 09:19, Gordon Joly wrote: At 07:33 +0100 25/9/06, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: hedging the weather barcamplondon featured weather averaging

[backstage] ARIA, the BBC Web 2.0 Accessibility

-state-20060926/ cheers Jonathan Chetwynd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/

Re: [backstage] Google code search

well, XML, HTML, RDF, SVG and more don't so xsl is in great company... cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 5 Oct 2006, at 16:14, Ian Forrester wrote: Found via Slashdot, http://www.google.com/codesearch/advanced_code_search It certainly looks useful, specially the licence selector but I'm

Re: [backstage] ARIA, the BBC Web 2.0 Accessibility

Jonathan Chetwynd On 10 Oct 2006, at 19:34, Mr I Forrester wrote: Jonathan you might also find this of interest, carrying on my thoughts on why the W3C might need to change to stay relevant http://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2006/10/02/w3c-change-your-turn/ Cheers, Ian Jonathan Chetwynd

Re: [backstage] Christmas Backstage bash

Ah that'll be vintage champagne and catering by Searcy, so count me in ~: was there anything else you had in mind? cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 13 Oct 2006, at 17:04, Ian Forrester wrote: Hi All, So this may seem pretty premature, but we're thinking about something special

Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

just now http://www.peepo.co.uk/peepo2 is the likely location cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 19 Oct 2006, at 15:10, Kathryn Schmitt wrote: Hi Michael, There's a Senegalese proverb: 'Ndank ndank muy japp gollo ci nyaay': Slowly slowly you catch the monkey in the bush. At the moment we have only

[backstage] Re: Sharing Code

of blogging) The reasons are well known, for example, experts are more easily tied into upgrades, developers attached to feature creep, etc Similarly much of web2.0 is server based which significantly reduces the possibilities for sharing or engaging the public in authoring. cheers Jonathan

Re: [backstage] Re: Sharing Code

Jason, which web2.0 apis are you proposing that produce accessible or even validating code? cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 1 Nov 2006, at 16:29, Jason Cartwright wrote: the fact is that after ten years or more there's still not a single successful web authoring application that's

[backstage] checks balances: validating the BBC

for reviews, whereas realplayer makes an attempt... cheers Jonathan Chetwynd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage

Re: [backstage] Backstage Tag Cloud T-shirt designs

much like bricks. for reference a BBC cloud looks almost like this: http://www.peepo.co.uk/peepo2/svg/cloud.svg cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 16 Nov 2006, at 15:13, Ian Forrester wrote: So this is what I've done so far... Let me know what you think, http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/images/ideas

Re: [backstage] Planned transmitter maintenance

Ahhh the MF transmitters would those be the ones with an Oedipus complex? cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 22 Nov 2006, at 14:59, James Cridland wrote: While I appreciate this is nothing to do with the BBC, you might enjoy... http://www.virginradio.co.uk/about_us/technology_services

[backstage] Re: Best links of the year

and the one in five people in the UK who are functionally illiterate be sure to let me know the final list ~: cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 15 Dec 2006, at 11:54, Tom Loosemore wrote: Hello all I'm doing a review of the year's best links, for use inside Auntie. Any suggestions? For 'best' read

Re: [backstage] What is web 1, 2, and 3?

yes but was it an accessible drop down menu object? there's not yet an ajax version, unless you know different ~: cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 13 Jan 2007, at 09:44, Gordon Joly wrote: At 18:52 + 12/1/07, Brian Butterworth wrote: OMG, it's amazing that people from Yahoo don't know what

Re: [backstage] SVG used by Office of National Statistics in BBC business report

, but this one has county boundaries for England the file size could probably be halved if required. cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 16 Jan 2007, at 17:01, Tom Pearson wrote: Hi, Personal opinions etc... Whilst I really like the idea of an open standard for vector graphics over the web I don't think SVG

Re: [backstage] What would you ask Lawrence Lessig?

to run Debian, obviously ~: Jonathan Chetwynd On 20 Jan 2007, at 16:59, Dave Crossland wrote: On 08/01/07, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So if you had one question for Lawrence Lessig, what would you ask him??? [3] If he's so big into all this free stuff, how come he uses

[backstage] Re: disability, accessibility Movies Data

Re: disability, accessibility Movies Data you might want to consider including data scraped from http:// www.disabilityfilms.co.uk/ not a business afaik despite the uri cheers Jonathan Chetwynd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http

[backstage] bbc offline?

bbc offline? is it just me, but finding bbc pages hard to load today? cheers Jonathan Chetwynd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail

Re: [backstage] barcamplondon2: Proof of Identity

Hey Gordo, if you're not going, count me out... what's the problem? need a ticket? Ian's a friendly kinda guy, sure they have some spares for corporate staff... cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 10 Feb 2007, at 21:32, Gordon Joly wrote: At 14:27 + 8/2/07, John wrote: why

Re: [backstage] News categories: bob's revenge

yup, it's not changed, but given the short list is alphabetical appropriate? cheers Jonathan Chetwynd On 19 Feb 2007, at 15:24, Jason Cartwright wrote: Are you referring to the left-hand-nav on news.bbc.co.uk? Has it changed? J -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

[backstage] RoverBalls

RoverBalls The new Rover has buckyballs for wheels! Human error, automation losing the plot, or how to illustrate a story? cheers Jonathan Chetwynd http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/default.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6384499.stm http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/42599000

[backstage] Flash required?

Flash required? anyone care to suggest why this is in flash? http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/bsp/hi/live_stats/html/map.stm seems unhelpful at best. cheers Jonathan Chetwynd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] What is TV?

endless remakes of Emma? haven't had one for well over a decade, eventually the men in white vans do stop coming well almost ~: - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list

Browser native games that use real-world data was Re: [backstage] data.gov.uk - about time?

about game design, with the emphasis on design, not programming. The goal is to help young people—gamers and nongamers—learn what it is like to think about design and to think like a designer. http://www.gameslearningsociety.org/macarthur.php and http://gamesforchange.org/ regards Jonathan

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

for the video, rather than HTML5 as it were... regards Jonathan Chetwynd

Re: [backstage] Youtube rolls out Html5 video support

yes well Joost + Antoine definitely did use SVG, before they abandoned their plugin and joined flash... they even had a developer-mashup meet I attended... best ~: On 21 Jan 2010, at 15:21, Ian Forrester wrote: http://2007.xtech.org/public/schedule/speaker/93

Re: [Bulk] [backstage] BBC Experimental Website Down?

wfm ~: On 23 Feb 2010, at 17:30, Tim Coysh wrote: http://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/http://www0.rdthdo.bbc.co.uk/services/

[backstage] Internet Game Standard and Working Group

Internet Game Standard and Working Group Tired of javascript libraries? Fed up with flash, java and APIs? Want to play with data in the browser? Contact me off-list. Jonathan Chetwynd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http

[backstage] s...@bbc?

s...@bbc? Has the BBC published anything at all in SVG* format? regards Jonathan Chetwynd * Internet Explorer may soon support SVG**, and Ordinance Survey, National Standards Office and the Meteorological Office already publish data in SVG format... and standards based browsers now have

[backstage] Re: s...@bbc?

] Ian Forrester Senior Backstage Producer BBC RD North Lab, 1st Floor Office, OB Base, New Broadcasting House, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 1SJ From: owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk [mailto:owner-backst...@lists.bbc.co.uk ] On Behalf Of Jonathan Chetwynd Sent: 25 February 2010 12:36

[backstage] web jobs to go?

web jobs to go? according to the front page of today's Times: The corporation’s web pages are to be halved, backed by a 25 per cent cut in staff numbers. http://bit.ly/webjobstogo ~: - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

[backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

indefinitely live BBC archive? my daughter (age 13) asks: why can't the BBC make some programmes available all the time? regards Jonathan ie there must be a large number of programmes that the BBC creates, and owns copyright permissions. why aren't at least some of these available via

Re: [backstage] indefinitely live BBC archive?

Jonathan, that's excellent, but there must be more... and where is the central search facility? best ~: On 28 Feb 2010, at 20:37, Jonathan Tweed wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/in-our-time/archive/

[backstage] Thompson Twins Terrorise UK

Thompson Twins Terrorise UK Who's Mark commissioned to satirise the climate of fear created by Labour in the past decade? Bureaucracy never had it so good. ~: - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit

Sita was: [backstage] Free films in 1080p?

I had tried to get Sita released in SVG format. unfortunately Nina wasn't happy with SVG output from Adobe source files, in particular some transparencies are lost in the conversion, and there doesn't appear to be a work around. . regards Jonathan On 9 Mar 2010, at 13:21, Mo McRoberts

Re: [backstage] Dumbed down BBC - iPlayer Beta - reporting bugs in 350 characters

suggested, or implemented. iiuyc this issue is wider than the BBC, and is a UA 'standards' issue. regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 6 Jun 2010, at 22:11, Brian Butterworth wrote: I note with interest that you are, if you so choose, limited to 350 characters when making reports about the iPlayer

[backstage] XML CMS?

Not sure whether I an is back at work, or well enough to respond, so does anyone know of a XML CMS preferably open source... I have no experience, but when reviewing book indexes found very little meat on SVG, or XML regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 26 Feb 2010, at 16:39, Ian Forrester wrote

[backstage] Re: XML CMS?

Ian, http://mammoth.welcomebackstage.com/exist/rest/db/feeds/ appears to be offline, had you experience running exist with nodejs? trying to get some further info... cheers ~: On 4 Jul 2010, at 12:35, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: Not sure whether I an is back at work, or well enough

[backstage] Google Instant method?

Google Instant method? anyone have pointers to a detailed but easy to understand* explanation of Google Instant method? has the BBC anything similar? regards Jonathan Chetwynd *beyond: 15 new technologies contribute to Google Instant functionality. http://www.google.com/instant/ - Sent

[backstage] iPlayer: (Not Available)

iPlayer: (Not Available) can anyone (from the BBC?) explain why** the all new beta iPlayer TV channels are stuffed with programs that are (Not Available)? best Jonathan Chetwynd **given there is already a TV site, I'm totally stumped, makes the product rather distinctly less useful

[backstage] BBC online outage? Error 500 - Internal Error 19:00 ~:'

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Re: [backstage] Kinect.. what if..

am I missing something? had assumed this was basic motion detection with parallax? has no one stripped one down yet? best Jonathan http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/110410-microsoft-kinect-teardown-ifixit.html (not read...) On 18 Nov 2010, at 15:22, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote:

Re: [backstage] Kinect.. what if..

ifixit teardown http://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft-Kinect-Teardown/4066/1 ~: On 18 Nov 2010, at 15:22, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: ...all this bumpf about how fancy they are[0] is just a load bollocks. I am wondering if them Kinect things are really working a lot simpler; and after

[backstage] where is the BBC's SVG or scaleable vector graphics content?

. Given the visual nature of much of the BBC's content, it would be interesting and perhaps stimulating to see some evidence of engagement with this web standard for graphics, which has been available for a decade. regards Jonathan Chetwynd http://www.peepo.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk

Re: [backstage] where is the BBC's SVG or scaleable vector graphics content?

the BBC quite some time to integrate SVG into their creative process, aka lead-in time, is this perhaps a third reason?? regards Jonathan Chetwynd On 29 Nov 2010, at 11:07, Stephen Jolly wrote: what are the other reasons why the BBC should be looking into making the change at this point

Re: [backstage] where is the BBC's SVG or scaleable vector graphics content?

David, did you read the rest of the sentence? you didn't quote it and it is highly relevant. ~: On 29 Nov 2010, at 12:01, David Dorward wrote: On 29 Nov 2010, at 11:55, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: As a website funded by the licence fee, it's more important to us that as many people have

Re: [backstage] where is the BBC's SVG or scaleable vector graphics content?

Christopher, excellent points, the real crux you circle but failed (to) state is the lack of excellent authoring tools. the one that brings tears to my eyes is animation without a timeline. it must be de facto that one starts with onion-skinning, a score and timeline, but the

[backstage] Open web games

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[backstage] A case of Facetime?

Did the BBC get a placement licence? it's certainly spoiling the product... Jonathan Chetwynd Peepo.com - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail

[backstage-developer] iplayer: ip change on disconnect

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Re: [backstage-developer] Accessing http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a-z from PHP

http://www.openicon.org/get_contents.php very temporary but wfm thinks it must be a local issue... ~: Jonathan Chetwynd [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.openicon.org/ +44 (0) 20 7978 1764 ?php $cty=file_get_contents(http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/a-z;, 0, $ctx); echo $cty; ? On 17 May