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	<description>The meanderings of a black widow...</description>
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		<title>Conversation with a Web site</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2010/02/24/conversation-with-a-web-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 20:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This has to be one of the funniest articles on the perils of the &#8220;bells &#038; whistles&#8221; design approach that I&#8217;ve ever read. It&#8217;s also bone-chillingly accurate&#8230;. A conversation I have every month or so]]></description>
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		<title>Target Lawsuit Settled</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2008/09/03/target-lawsuit-settled/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 11:13:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Target Corporation have agreed to a $6 million settlement of the lawsuit filed against them by the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) regarding the inaccessibility of Target.com. The original complaint, filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), cited various problems with Target.com &#8211; images that lacked alternative text; missing page headings and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Reinventing A Headache</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/31/reinventing-a-headache/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 17:11:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do people cope when they forget a login password or username? Well, hopefully they use the &#8220;Forgot password&#8221; or &#8220;Forgot username&#8221; links that you so thoughtfully provided. Or do they? Research by social network watcher, Danah Boyd, suggests that your teenage visitors may simply re-register or create a new profile instead. Unlike us &#8220;oldies&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking CAPTCHAs</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/06/breaking-captchas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Oct 2007 14:07:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the myths surrounding CAPTCHAs is that they offer 100% protection against the abuse of web site facilities by automated systems. That&#8217;s a reassuring idea but is it really true in practice? One of the first visual CAPTCHAs was developed in 2002 by Yahoo in conjunction with Manuel Blum and his graduate students at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve Got A Crippen Cartoon!</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/03/weve-got-a-crippen-cartoon/</link>
		<comments>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/10/03/weve-got-a-crippen-cartoon/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Oct 2007 21:57:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago, I was putting together some slides for a presentation to a group of businessmen on the benefits of accessible web design. Since I had no desire to bore my audience to death, I thought I&#8217;d do my usual trick of inserting a little humour via cartoons. However, the right cartoon is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Usability</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/01/23/web-usability/</link>
		<comments>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2007/01/23/web-usability/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:12:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody can design and put up a web site. It&#8217;s even claimed that there are more web pages than there are people in the world! Given the sheer number of sites out there, the ultimate goal should be to have an effective site. Most people who outsource their web sites choose a web designer based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ve been memed!</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2006/12/18/ive-been-memed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Dec 2006 15:41:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It would seem that I&#8217;ve been blog-tagged. Thanks, Grant! I now have to come up with 5 things that most people don&#8217;t know about me. So here goes&#8230; Five Things You (Probably) didn&#8217;t Know About Mel Pedley Mel met her partner Rich via Usenet &#8211; alt.fan.pratchett to be exact. Mel&#8217;s youngest son, Kai, was the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web Design Humour</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2006/11/06/web-design-humour/</link>
		<comments>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2006/11/06/web-design-humour/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Nov 2006 16:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a bit of fun for a change&#8230; Brain surgeons, plumbers and lawyers need training to do their jobs, but anyone with a computer can be a web designer. In fact, anyone&#8217;s nephew already is. The colors a client requests will always look hideous on any monitor and look nothing like they did in print. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Race For Life</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2006/04/28/race-for-life/</link>
		<comments>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2006/04/28/race-for-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2006 15:25:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine is participating in the women-only &#8220;Race For Life&#8221; event in Liverpool on June 17th. I&#8217;m busy arranging to get a Black Widow baseball cap for her to wear during the event so that the company can officially sponsor her. In the meantime, if anyone else fancies sponsoring a runner in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One of my sites just won an award!</title>
		<link>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2006/01/11/one-of-my-sites-just-won-an-award/</link>
		<comments>http://blackwidows.co.uk/blog/2006/01/11/one-of-my-sites-just-won-an-award/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2006 23:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Widow</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accessites.org was officially launched on Jan 6th 2006 with the express committment to prove that accessible, usable websites need not be boring by showcasing, and providing awards-recognition for, qualifying websites. As such, the Accessites team of assessors audit every submitted site against a set of 10 criteria points based upon accessibility, web standards compliancy, looks [...]]]></description>
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