An article of mine has been published on Slo-Tech. It’s in Slovene, and deals with, yes, you’ve guessed it, color management on the web.

read it here:
Slo-Tech | Barvno upravljanje na spletu

For those of you less fluent in the language, here’s a list of sources (in English) I’ve referenced to prepare this.

1. Is the Web Safe Palette really dead?. Gillespie, J. 2001.
2. Frequently Asked Questions. VisiBone. 2008.
3. How a 16 color palette is represented in different pixel formats. A Witness to YAHWEH. 2002.
4. HTML Colors. W3Schools. Referenced Dec 27th 2008.
5. So Many Colors. Holley, B. 2008.
6. sRGB. Wikipedia. 2008.
7. A Standard Default Color Space for the Internet - sRGB. Stokes M., Anderson M., Chandrasekar S., Motta R. 1996.
8. Graphics Interchange Format. Wikipedia. 2008.
9. JPEG. Wikipedia. 2008.
10. The Sad Story of PNG Gamma “Correction”. Sivonen, H. 2008.
11. Browser Gamma-Correction Test Page. Roelofs, G. 2005.
12. Get better color online through Flash Player 10. Nack, J. 2008.

I’ve written about working on an accessibility paper before. It’s been finished, presented and liked. Me and Jasna (who I did the paper with) then decided to give more people a chance to read it. Why? Cause we want more people to be aware of the whole accessibility case. So Primoz at Slo-Tech agreed to publish the article. We did a few modifications, made some hyperlinks and split it into two parts for easier understanding. First part therefore deals with introducing the trouble some people are having at browsing the web and the second part is aimed at the web developer who wants to make accessible websites. Second part is still being worked on, but you can read the first part

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The thing is in Slovene, so sorry to anyone not fluent in the language.

You can also read the discussion the article has started.

Yesterday’s speech went pretty well I’d say. Accompanied with Andraž Tori’s “The future of web” and Jure Čuhalev’s “Introduction to interface planning and usability”, the listeners got a three-hour lecture on the web of yesterday, today and tomorrow.

I promised to post my presentation and notes, so here they are:
Presentation [PDF]
Notes [PDF]
(Both in Slovene language)

Additionally, here are links to a few article collections that I used in preparation for the speech:

• Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability - bi-weekly column by usability expert Jakob Nielsen
• User Science: Usability - A List Apart’s articles on usability
• Criteria for optimal web design at Software Usability Research Laboratory
• Articles by Mark Boulton - a collection of articles dealing with typography and web design