Joe Clark, Toronto

Algospeak: Your language is dangerous and extremist, Adam Aleksic cries

2026-02-11T20:48:11-05:00

In Algospeak, Adam Aleksic insists that right-wing neologisms, which he cannot even define accurately, are dangerous and extreme. Aleksic’s book has one and only one purpose – to grease the wheels for the extirpation of supposed enemies of the régime

Fixing the retarded L.L. Bean duckboot

2026-01-24T20:48:11-05:00

I have been wearing the L.L. Bean duckboot for 20-odd years. The advantages are many. The core disadvantage is they fall apart after a few years due to a design flaw that L.L. Bean refuses to acknowledge

The Holy Agony

2022-10-25T17:06:00-05:00

The Holy Agony was a one-of-a-kind Catholic art podcast from 2021 by John Dios with a collaborator. For posterity, I maintain the relevant files and a samizdat RSS feed. And now (2026), <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSMykxs9q5s0VuxftaL9GwA" title="Holy Agony Archives">archives are up on YouTube</a>

Russell Smith’s ‘Self Care’: Missing well more than a hyphen

2025-10-27T20:48:11-05:00

In <cite>Self Care</cite>, Russell Smith sympathetically treats a leftist girl and an “incel.” Problems ultimately emerge when, in a combination of wish fulfillment and predictive programming, that girl murders that incel

Beyond “based” and “cringe”

2025-08-25T20:48:11-05:00

Right-wing vocabulary in the 21st century (some 400 items)

The ‘Heliand’ in HTML

2025-06-27T20:48:11-05:00

The <cite>Heliand</cite> is a retelling of the Gospel in Old Saxon. It uses cultural reference-points that would make sense to Vikings, which term I am using approximately. The Three Wise Men are warriors, Jesus is wrapped not in swaddling clothes but in a bejewelled raiment, and suchlike. I have produced a version you can read online

Appearances on Trans Regret Snoopy Presents the Bible

2025-05-14T20:45:11-05:00

I have now appeared twice on this unique Bible-study podcast

Conservatives cannot design

2025-02-04T20:46:11-05:00

2025 update to 2017 article, with Substack companion piece

Francis Leo will be a future pope

2024-12-11T11:10:00-05:00

Archbishop of Toronto Francis Leo is obviously being speedrun into position to be elected pope. Quite possibly the very next one

I quit

2023-11-11T11:11:00-05:00

I have two more books to write and publish, but, save for fringes around the edges here and there, whatever kind of “public life” I previously had is over. I quit

Catholic projects

2023-10-16T17:07:00-05:00

Redesign of Holy Family, a Latin-mass church in Toronto (leaving me “a public enemy of a religious order”); Biggie smalls: Staying just the right size in one’s Internet niche; and others

Three appearances in the last year

2023-08-21T17:07:00-05:00

Recordings of my appearances on Cathedral in the Pines (twice) and Trans Regret Snoopy Presents the Bible

Make Accessibility Great Again

2020-05-05T13:08:00-05:00

Accessibility for people with disabilities is the only non-partisan issue. Like everything they touch, it’s been systematically ruined by Silicon Valley progressives. You can put a stop to that, not least by taking the Neutrality Pledge for Accessibility Workers

Contributions to Internet Archive

2019-12-26T11:23:00-05:00

I have contributed a number of compilations to the Internet Archive, where one hopes they will be safe for the indefinite future. (Includes Caribbean Rhythms with Bronze Age Pervert podcast; Gaytriarchy with Prince of Queens audio archive [and Prince of Queens videos]; Frame Games Radio audio & video; <cite>Diseased Pariah News</cite> and <cite>OutWeek</cite> PDFs)

John Waters’ best films of the year (2000–)

2018-12-20T14:35:00-05:00

This archive exists because <cite>Artforum</cite> cannot be trusted to keep these lists published and available. Plus my markup and copy-editing are better

Vegan Lifter Project

2018-11-29T14:40:00-05:00

Do vegan male powerlifters have a kind of “inbuilt religion” toward veganism – one that overwhelms the urge to eat red meat that tags along with the urge to get big and muscular?

Borked Unicode: Tips for journalists on writing clean copy

2018-07-23T11:59:00-05:00

Moved to my homepage from a disused WordPress blog.

Podcast censorship (of a sort)

2018-06-08T12:35:00-05:00

In one sense of the term, podcasts are censored from the only directory most people will ever use, iTunes. Some of the same podcasts don’t show up in the indexes that podcast applications like Overcast maintain. Not by any coïncidence whatsoever, all the affected podcasts are by conservatives

‘CP Caps and Spelling’

2018-06-08T12:35:00-05:00

I assembled a list of over a hundred neologisms that could be added to <cite>CP Caps and Spelling</cite>. The intent is to redress hacks’ left-wing bias and their unwillingness to admit the Internet is real despite their spending all day online.

New homepage (that one can actually read on an iPhone)

2018-06-02T14:45:00-05:00

After months of tinkering, and with help from Jason Santa Maria (and none from Rob Weychert or Mark Boulton), my homepage now reads adequately on an iPhone and offers less-minimalist design overall.

Canonical test podcasts: How to test your podcast app against difficult cases

2017-09-26T12:22:00-04:00

Are you the creator, programmer, or quality-tester of a podcasting application? This page provides a range of podcasts that exemplify a range of atypical use case from merely uncommon to exceedingly fringe. If your app can handle all these, you’re doing well.

Not Evan Balgord’s journalist’s guide to reporting on the anti-Islam/anti-Muslim movement in Canada

2017-07-13T11:24:00-04:00

Left-wing journalist Evan Balgord threatened to write such a guide, so I wrote it for him

Application to Ontario Superior Court regarding Pride Toronto and Dispute Resolution Process

2017-05-12T12:08:00-04:00

(I am not “suing” Pride Toronto)

Gay-married couples in the U.S. really are richer on the whole

2017-03-29T13:41:00-05:00

Recent evidence about incomes of American married gay and lesbian couples proves that the groups I just mentioned really are richer than straight couples on the whole.

Right-Wing Assholes in Canada: A research project

2017-02-16T14:55:00-05:00

I am starting a new project to read and critique most or all of the research on right-wing extremists in Canada and, unlike quisling anti-racist bloggers and academics, get to know them personally

Article about TTC type and tile

2016-11-09T14:26:00-06:00

The TeX Users Group or TUG is a decades-old organization for users of the mathematical typesetting language that is not exactly called TeX. In July, TUG held its biannual conference here in Toronto. I was invited to give a presentation to these typographers about TTC type ’n’ tile. I did, and you can read the journal article that resulted

Bill 28: The <cite>Handmaid’s Tale</cite> Act

2016-11-09T14:25:00-06:00

The Ontario legislature introduced Bill 28. Its official subtitle is All Families Are Equal Act (Parentage and Related Registrations Statute Law Amendment), 2016. I call it Bill 28: The <cite>Handmaid’s Tale</cite> Act, because it attempts to rewrite actual biological facts about human reproduction. I gave a deputation at the Ontario legislature in the presence of the Rev. NDP MPP Cheri DiNovo, “[t]he single greatest enemy that the legitimately constituted gay and lesbian community in Ontario faces”

Complaint against Black Lives Matter Toronto

2016-08-12T12:01:00-05:00

On 2016.07.30, I filed a <a href="https://joeclark.org/dossiers/dispute/blm/" title="Complaint">complaint</a> under the Pride Toronto Dispute Resolution Process against Black Lives Matter Toronto, accusing this activist group of violence, discrimination, hate speech, and violation of the contract it signed with Pride Toronto

Black Lives Matter vs. Pride Toronto

2016-07-15T11:51:00-05:00

I’m maintaining an archive of important documents in the fight between Black Lives Matter and Pride Toronto. Both sides have unclean hands, but by far the biggest sin is forgetting the lessons of the Community Advisory Panel and the apparent dismantling of the Dispute Resolution Process.

Mark Leduc Archive launches

2015-05-28T13:50:00-05:00

The <a href="https://markleduc.wordpress.com/" title="Archive">Mark Leduc Archive</a> is online. <div> <img src="https://markleduc.files.wordpress.com/2015/05/libraryarchivescanada_leduc.jpg" alt="Ginger-haired Mark Leduc, in Team Canada jacket, holds up right fist" /> </div> I want the one-of-a-kind strawberry-blond gay Olympic silver medallist to be remembered, not forgotten. I also want the circumstances of his death accurately reported.

News for 2015

2015-03-30T16:15:00-05:00

Hell freezes over: I did some paid work for the TTC on signage. Also, I am publishing the TTC signage manual. (Updated August 2015 with explanation of how TTC has made it clear I will never hear from them again)

Antedating gay words

2014-08-03T12:45:10-04:00

I am putting my linguistics degree to use by embarking on an open-ended project to antedate (find the earliest uses of) gay and lesbian terminology

Eldergay Suicides

2014-07-13T12:49:12-04:00

Older gay men, culturally unwanted and already the survivors of multiple holocausts, kill themselves with alarming regularity

Revised complaint against QuAIA

2013-05-10T12:49:12-04:00

I have revised my complaint under Pride Toronto’s dispute-resolution process against QuAIA

<cite>Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours</cite> is now free at Internet Archive

2013-03-20T13:09:11-04:00

<cite>Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours</cite> (ePub version, 2010) used to cost $17.83 via PayPal. But its time in the sun has long passed (is long past), and it is now available at Internet Archive

Complaint lodged against QuAIA under Pride Toronto Dispute-Resolution Process

2012-06-27T13:10:11-04:00

I have filed a complaint against Queers Against Israeli Apartheid under the Dispute Resolution Process that is nominally at arm’s length from Pride Toronto

Appearance on ABC Radio National’s <cite>Lingua Franca</cite>

2011-11-21T15:41:11-04:00

Last week, ABC Radio National’s linguistics program <cite>Lingua Franca</cite> interviewed me about Canadian English and <cite>Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours</cite>. <ul> <li> <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2011/3368756.htm" title="2011.11.19 episode">Episode page</a> </li> <li> <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/ca/podcast/2011-11-19-canadian-english/id135706998?i=106627796" title="iTunes Store: Lingua Franca">Download via iTunes</a> </li> </ul>

Borked Unicode

2011-11-21T15:40:11-04:00

Tips for journalists on Unicode and writing clean copy. The article Zeldman wouldn’t publish!)

Comments on what is allegedly the last version of the information and communications standard required by the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act

2011-03-17T12:05:00-04:00

Without any fanfare at all, the Ontario government released what it claims is the last version of the information and communications standard required by the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act. And obviously I have something to say about that

Yes, I’m finally being allowed onstage at Ignite Toronto

2011-01-25T13:33:00-04:00

<a href="/appearances/#Ignite5" title="Listing at Appearances page">2011.02.10</a> I’ll be there to answer the typographic question “Why can’t computers read the Goof sign?”

Response to FCC Public Notice on closed-captioning rules

2010-11-25T14:39:00-04:00

Yes, we need captioning standards, because captioning always gets worse. (<a href="https://joeclark.org/access/crtc/fcc2010/reply/" title="Reply comments">Reply comments</a>, 2010.12.09.)

Gay money: The truth about lesbian & gay economics

2010-11-16T08:30:00-04:00

I spent most of 2010 reading every article on lesbian and gay income and earnings. And guess what! Gay marketers have been lying to us all along. Gay males earn, on average, less than straight males (lesbians more than straight females), most studies agree. This is rather different from what gay marketers have been trying to sell us for years – that “the gay community” is a “dream” or “affluent” market. Use this resource to learn the truth about gay money. Especially useful for <a href="https://joeclark.org/gaymoney/journos/" title="Information for journalsits">journalists</a>.

<cite>FANTASTIC MAN</cite> LIST

2010-11-08T12:48:00-04:00

“The List” is the most interesting feature of <cite>FANTASTIC MAN</cite> magazine

The reading phase of bibliography on lesbian and gay economics now complete

2010-09-22T12:48:00-04:00

I have now completed reading what I believe to be every English-language refereed article published on any topic vaguely related to lesbian and gay economics, many popular-press articles, and most books on “gay marketing.” I am writing an annotated bibliography on lesbian and gay economics, not just a citation list. After 61 papers spanning 650 pages and about a dozen books, the writing phase begins.

Bibliography on lesbian and gay economics

2010-05-17T16:00:00-04:00

Over the next several months, I will be reading what I believe to be every English-language refereed article published on any topic vaguely related to lesbian and gay economics. <div id="TFagonomics_papers-cropped.jpg-img" class="splorpist"> <img src="https://joeclark.org/economics/Fagonomics_papers-cropped.jpg" alt="Hand holding about 15 papers bound together with colored alligator clips"> </div> I’m doing this so there will be a single point of reference for anyone who wishes to confirm the oft-repeated claim that gay men earn more than straight men. According to all the reading I’ve done so far, that is completely false and you should not be repeating that claim. Gay men do not earn more than straight men, the data I’ve read show. Anyone who claims otherwise has a vested interest, and is usually peddling some ill-assembled marketing materials with a sales agenda. I will review and annotate every paper and book and will cross-reference them according to their findings. <h2 id="wyw">While you’re waiting</h2> Start with M.V. Lee Badgett’s classic book <cite><a href="http://www.librarything.com/work/1074741/book/47165018" title="LibraryThing entry">Money, Myths and Change</a></cite>, available at many libraries and easily Amazonable.

Tracking nominees for Canadian Word of the Year 2010

2010-03-13T12:30:00-04:00

I have a degree in linguistics and I wrote <a href="http://en-CA.org/" title="‘Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours’">a book about Canadian spelling</a>. This does not make me an arbiter of anything, merely an informed commentator. Nevertheless, people coin new words every year. What will be the new word of the year for 2010? For Canada specifically? What will be the Canadian Word of the Year 2010? I don’t know and I don’t get to decide. But what I’m going to do for the rest of the year is keep an ongoing list of contenders. We’re starting out with <cite>VANOC</cite>, <cite>Own the Podium</cite>, and <cite>TTC sleeper</cite>.

New article on E-books at A List Apart

2010-03-09T12:30:00-04:00

With any luck, the definitive article: “<a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/ebookstandards/" title="An HTML-triumphalist view of E-books">Web Standards for E-books</a>.”

Old Wine in New Bottles Alert: ePub version of <cite>Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours</cite> coming

2010-03-08T12:30:00-04:00

In a week or so, <cite>Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours</cite> will be reissued in actual ePub format so you can read it on any E-book reader that isn’t a Kindle. (Yes, including the iPad, eventually.) You’ll have to buy it again, but it’ll be half price

Vancouver Olympics Web sites are inaccessible to disabled people

2010-02-11T22:13:49-04:00

Even though Vancouver Olympics CEO John Furlong promised six years ago that the Games’ Web site would be accessible, it isn’t – not really, and sometimes not at all. Neither is CTVOlympics.ca. This could all have been avoided. (Now with <a href="https://joeclark.org/access/webaccess/vancouver2010/" title="Downloads">downloadable source code from the two sites</a>)

Policy on deleted items

2010-02-11T12:07:00-04:00

In the exceedingly rare case where I delete an item, researchers may request to see or view it, with limitations

Response to Australian government accessibility conversation

2010-01-29T13:33:00-04:00

In short, they’ve backed the wrong horse, especially in cinema captioning

Where’s the <acronym>AODA</acronym> Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities information and communications standard?

2010-01-08T13:33:00-04:00

It’s on ice. In November 2009, I asked the Ministry of Community and Social Services the following: <blockquote> I am under the impression that the standard for information and communications, while ostensibly "final" and sent to the Ministry for "consideration," is actually completely stalled and nothing is happening on it. Also, either the committee was disbanded or its term ended, but in any event there is no committee in place to work on the standard if it needs that. Even if these aren't the exact terms you would use, do I have that more or less correct? </blockquote> I did. Their response: <blockquote> Following public review, the Committee revised the standard and submitted their Final Proposed Information and Communications Standard to the Minister of Community and Social Services on May 29, 2009. This fulfilled the mandate of the Committee.... The Information and Communications Standard is not law and decisions have not yet been made with respect to the Committee’s proposal. Upon receipt of the final proposed standard, the Minister may adopt the recommendations into regulation in whole, in part or with modifications, including timelines for compliance. [...] <ins class="ed">[Signed]</ins> Brenda Lewis Director, Standards Policy and Coordination Branch Accessibility Directorate of Ontario </blockquote>

Bluff-calling exercise

2009-10-21T14:00:00-04:00

Most of the “Real Science” campaign ends today with the Project’s submission to the CRTC and <acronym title="Canadian Association of Broadcasters">CAB</acronym>. <a href="http://openandclosed.org/docs/counteroffer/" title="A counterproposal for consumer-supported, independent captioning research">We’ve made them an offer they can’t refuse.</a> Thanks to all my <a href="http://captioningsucks.com/realscience/supporters/" title="Supporters">supporters</a>. I still have a few tasks to complete.

The Captioning Sucks! “Real Science” Campaign

2009-10-06T14:00:00-04:00

CAPTIONING SUCKS! launches its <a href="http://captioningSUCKS.com/realscience/" title="The Captioning Sucks! ‘Real Science’ campaign">“Real Science” Campaign</a>, with the primary goal of submitting a counterproposal to industry. We want to carry out legitimate scientific research into captioning. We could use your help

Submission to Canadian copyright consultation

2009-09-11T15:53:00-04:00

My submission to the ongoing copyright consultation is all about alternate-format books, and is more or less a broadside against the CNIB

New at A List Apart: ‘Unwebbable’

2009-07-21T15:53:00-04:00

Today my article, long in gestation, appears at A List Apart: “<a href="http://www.alistapart.com/articles/unwebbable/" title="ALA: Unwebbable">Unwebbable</a>” examines how not every document can be folded and mutilated into a “Web page.”

‘The Cranky Copyright Book’: my new project

2009-06-02T13:00:00-04:00

Launching today is my new book project, <cite>The Cranky Copyright Book</cite>. It’s all about copyright reform for creators, and <a href="https://joeclark.org/cranky/contribute/" title="Contribute to ‘The Cranky Copyright Book’">I could use your help</a>

Some more comments filed on standards documents

2009-05-01T13:09:00-04:00

<ul> <li><a href="https://joeclark.org/access/loc2009/" title="Comments on access to literary works by people with print disabilities">Comments</a> on a Library of Congress notice on alternate-format books</li> <li>Yet more <a href="https://joeclark.org/access/crtc/AODA/April2009/" title="Comments on the Ontario accessibility spec, April 2009 edition">comments</a> on the Ontario accessibility standard</li> </ul>

<cite>Organizing Our Marvellous Neighbours: How to Feel Good About Canadian English</cite> is finally available

2008-09-25T15:09:00-04:00

Buy this electronic book on Canadian English spelling for $17.83 (Canadian)

Even more comments on the Ontario accessibility spec

2008-09-15T15:09:00-04:00

It’s as bad as last time – but in fascinating new ways!

What do the CBC captioning manuals say?

2008-04-10T13:51:00-04:00

I have them and now I can tell you.

Captioning Sucks! launches

2008-04-01T09:15:00-04:00

A garish new site about lousy captioning.

Intervention in TFO licence renewal

2008-03-16T14:35:00-04:00

No, they can’t get away with less than 100% captioning. Besides, TFO was live-captioning French in 1996. “Special and exempt are two of the many things TFO is not.”

Emancipated

2008-02-06T12:15:00-04:00

As of 2008.02.04, rights to my first book have reverted to me. <cite>Building Accessible Websites</cite> will be reissued in a corrected online-only edition, and many translations will be authorized

More on GO Transit signage

2007-12-12T16:06:00-04:00

My response in the process of the appeal of the decision not to release public documents. Yeah, it’s that complicated

<acronym>ATypI</acronym>-TTC video now transcribed

2007-12-03T15:34:00-04:00

But not captioned. I can’t get the software to work

Comments on <acronym>AODA</acronym> accessibility “standard” available

2007-10-22T14:32:00-04:00

The <a href="http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/mcss/english/pillars/accessibilityOntario/what/AODA_guide.htm" title="What you should know about the AODA">Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act</a> (<acronym>AODA</acronym>) is a rather weak piece of legislation that gives businesses and other organizations in Ontario until the year 2025 to become accessible to people with disabilities. One of the tasks of the <a href="http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/mcss/english/pillars/accessibilityOntario/what/about_ado.htm" title="Accessibility Directorate of Ontario">Accessibility Directorate of Ontario</a> is the creation of <a href="http://www.mcss.gov.on.ca/mcss/english/pillars/accessibilityOntario/accesson/business/information/" title="Homepage for the standard">a standard for information and communications</a>. And <a href="https://joeclark.org/access/crtc/AODA/November2007/" title="Comments on AODA information and communications standard">I’ve got comments</a>.

Micropatronage: This time it’s personal

2007-10-22T14:32:01-04:00

Last year, I began a <dfn>micropatronage</dfn> campaign to fund me while I fundraised for my research project, the <a href="http://openandclosed.org/" title="OC-Pro">Open & Closed Project</a>. Now I’m giving micropatronage another go. This time the goal is to lobby against closed-door “standards” and in favour of our own open standards, and to propose a radical new deregulation plan that would provide fro 100% accessibility. This time I’m trying something new. <a href="https://joeclark.org/micro/" title="Joe Clark Micropatronage">This time it’s personal. Micropatronage: THE REVENGE.</a>

Speaking notes from An Event Apart available

2007-10-08T16:33:00-04:00

<a href="https://joeclark.org/appearances/AEA/2007/" title="Why I Hate Online Captioning">Notes posted</a> from my presentation at An Event Apart (“Why I Hate Online Captioning”)

Speaking notes from <acronym>ATypI</acronym> available

2007-09-18T15:27:00-04:00

Speaking notes posted from <acronym>ATypI</acronym> (<a href="https://joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/caption-subtitle/" title="Don’t show printouts to grannies and call that a test">captioning</a>; <a href="https://joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/TTC/notes/" title="Speaking notes for ‘Inscribed in the Living Tile: Type in the Toronto Subway’">TTC</a>).

‘Inscribed in the Living Tile’

2007-09-16T10:14:00-04:00

Yes, it’s finally ready: “<a href="https://joeclark.org/appearances/atypi/2007/TTC/inscribed/" title="Inscribed in the Living Tile: Type in the Toronto Subway">Inscribed in the Living Tile</a>: Type in the Toronto Subway.” (Shorter version upcoming.) It’s 50 pages and 2 MB in size, so give it a while

Appeal of licence issued to the Accessible Channel

2007-09-04T15:54:00-04:00

Because one ghetto TV station for the blind does not equate to accessibility

What is GO Transit hiding?

2007-08-14T14:20:00-04:00

Recently, GO Transit, the commuter railroad, tested some new signage designs. Why won’t they release any information about those signs, and why isn’t the government watchdog assisting with such release?

SwiftWatch™

2007-07-17T08:15:00-04:00

Keeping tabs on the most expensive captioning software in the world (and its many bugs)

Save TTC Signs

2007-07-03T08:15:00-04:00

Did you know that TTC plans to remove and destroy irreplaceable old signs, including the only existing versions of Paul Arthur’s signage redesign at St. George? In response, I’ve started a write-in campaign to force TTC staff and Commissioners to preseve old signage that has to be removed – and to research and test a rational new signage system

@media 2007 notes published

2007-06-14T16:34:00-04:00

Speaking notes from @media San Francisco and London now available

WCAG Samurai Errata for WCAG 1 released

2007-06-07T22:32:00-04:00

At @media in London today, we released the <a href="http://WCAGSamurai.org/errata/" title="Errata"><acronym>WCAG</acronym> Samurai Errata</a> for WCAG 1.0. In addition two peer reviews, by <a href="http://SamuraiReview.wordpress.com" title="SamuraiReview">Gian Sampson-Wild</a> and <a href="http://ReviewSamurai.wordpress.com" title="ReviewSamurai">Alastair Campbell</a>, were developed independently and in secret and were unveiled today

Pushing back the date of release to @media London, June 7–8

2007-05-14T15:34:00-04:00

We’re moving the release date of WCAG Samurai back to the second @media conference, in London June 7–8, 2007

We now have a newsfeed

2007-05-14T15:33:00-04:00

There’s now a <a href="http://wcagsamurai.org/feeds/wcagsamurai.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" title="RSS file; click only if you know what you’re doing">newsfeed (RSS/XML)</a> for WCAG Samurai

Looking for an agent

2007-05-10T14:10:00-04:00

But I have <a href="https://joeclark.org/agent/" title="Looking for an agent">certain requirements</a>

Transcript of my remarks to the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage

2007-05-09T14:25:00-04:00

I <a href="http://blog.fawny.org/2007/04/21/evidentiary/" title="‘Is this going on a blog site?’">appeared at a hearing</a> in Toronto on 2007.04.20 (<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/joeclark/sets/72157600103287001/" title="Flickr: Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage">photos</a>). My remarks were later <a href="https://joeclark.org/access/captioning/CBC/Heritage/transcript/" title="Transcript of remarks to Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage">transcribed</a>

Giving ‘evidence’ before a House of Commons committee on Friday

2007-04-17T17:35:00-04:00

This Friday (2007.04.20 1500), I’m giving “evidence” before the Standing Committee on Canadian Heritage, Toronto, concerning CBC accessibility. (I’ve been there already – twice – in the last 15 years)

Four design articles from the <cite>Globe and Mail</cite>, 1993

2007-03-07T16:58:00-04:00

<ul> <li><a href="https://joeclark.org/design/RogerBlack.html" title="">Interview with Roger Black</a></li> <li><a href="https://joeclark.org/design/BrodyCarter.html" title="Matthew Carter & Neville Brody, 1993">Feature on joint presentation by Matthew Carter and Neville Brody</a></li> <li><a href="https://joeclark.org/design/Hel-vetica.html" title="Life in Hel-vetica">Life in Hel-vetica</a>, a quick introduction to Helvetica for laypeople</li> <li><a href="https://joeclark.org/design/DanielWeil.html" title="Old interview with Daniel Weil, designer of the Pet Shop Boys’ ‘Very’">Interview with Daniel Weil</a>, designer of the Pet Shop Boys’s album/tile <cite>Very</cite></li> </ul>

Intervention against the National Broadcast Reading Service’s claimed Accessible Channel

2007-03-07T16:57:00-04:00

Wrong in principle and for a host of other reasons

Speaking notes from Web Directions North 2007 finally up

2007-02-15T15:25:00-04:00

As a nice tidy HTML file instead of a 20-megabyte PDF

Complaint to Toronto’s Public Works and Infrastructure Committee on lack of testing of proposed streetsigns

2007-02-14T15:25:00-04:00

In short, they haven’t been tested, and you can’t roll them out until they have been

Letter to Tim Berners-Lee: Time to cancel WCAG 2

2007-02-07T19:00:00-04:00

In which I call upon the chair of the W3C to cancel the failed WCAG 2 misadventure

Presentation to TTC about their crap signage

2007-02-01T08:34:00-04:00

Yesterday I gave a presentation, lasting a whopping five minutes, to the Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) about their crap signage, which you may now <a href="https://joeclark.org/design/signage/TTC/#pres" title="Is TTC signage in ‘a state of good repair”?">read</a> in various forms (with one more to come, at Sunday’s TransitCamp).

List of projects for 2007

2007-01-02T16:17:00-04:00

Just what it says

Another CRTC submission and another paper on accessibility of interactive television

2006-12-20T14:56:00-04:00

<ul><li> <a href="https://joeclark.org/access/crtc/OTA-2006/2/" title="Reply comments in CRTC OTA hearings">Reply comments</a> in the CRTC’s somewhat farcical hearings on over-the-air television (and captioning) </li> <li> <a href="https://joeclark.org/access/resources/interfaces/expressvu-itv.html" title="Captioning and iTV">Another research paper</a> on onscreen menu systems for interactive television, with some discussion of caption fonts </li> </ul>

New documents from WCAG Working Group cochair on cognitive disability published

2006-10-26T14:31:00-04:00

Now posted: <a href="https://joeclark.org/access/webaccess/WCAG/cognitive/" title="WCAG 2 activity on cognitive disability"><abbr>WCAG</abbr> 2 activity on cognitive disability</a>, including a November 2006 invitation to a teleconference on the subject (complete with Microsoft Word attachments, which I have HTMLified – a case of WCAG Working Group cochair Gregg Vanderheiden’s inability to produce the accessible Web content his guidelines would require)

Quoted in the <cite>Wall Street Journal</cite>

2006-10-25T09:50:00-04:00

I am quoted in an <a href="http://online.wsj.com/article_email/article_print/SB116137109874699183-lMyQjAxMDE2NjIxNTMyNzUxWj.html" title="Deaf Web users fear being left behind as TV shows stream onto the Internet">article</a> by Andrew LaVallee (we talked about different pronunciations of his name) entitled “Deaf Web users fear being left behind as TV shows stream onto the Internet.” The piece describes the demand by deaf people for captions on online and handheld video and how pretty much nobody is meeting that demand. See <a href="http://blog.fawny.org/2006/10/25/wsj-cc/" title="Online captioning in the ‘Wall Street Journal’">blog entry</a> with minor corrections

A busy week for regulatory filings

2006-10-01T15:50:00-04:00

<ol><li> <a href="https://joeclark.org/access/captioning/Neves/" title="Comments on Josélia Neves’s captioning thesis">Comments on Josélia Neves’s captioning thesis</a>: Neves, a Portuguese researcher working in England, wrote a thesis on captioning, especially Portuguese captioning, and the thesis has a few problems </li> <li> <a href="https://joeclark.org/access/captioning/CBC/CBC-caption-reuse.html" title="CBC News Online: Reuse of TV captions onto the Web">CBC News Online: Reuse of TV captions onto the Web</a>: The original proposal for an old project to reuse TV captions on the Web. We actually made it happen for a couple of years </li> <li> <a href="https://joeclark.org/access/crtc/OTA-2006/" title="Comments on CRTC over-the-air television review">Intervention</a> in the CRTC’s review of over-the-air television </li> </ol>

Signage & wayfinding articles posted

2006-09-20T16:25:00-04:00

<a href="https://joeclark.org/design/signage/" title="Signage & wayfinding">Signage articles posted</a>, including old evaluations and typeface comparisons for GO Transit

Accessibility of visual menu systems and interfaces and video on demand (<acronym>VOD</acronym>)

2006-08-16T15:03:00-04:00

<a href="https://joeclark.org/access/resources/interfaces/" title="Accessibility of visual menu systems and interfaces and video on demand (VOD)">Three articles</a> from the 2002–2003 era on making visual menu systems (like on digital TV) accessible

Test of em, en, thin, and hair spaces

2006-07-16T13:38:00-04:00

New browser test published: <a href="/standards/spacetest.html" title="Test of em, en, thin, and hair spaces">Em, en, thin, and hair spaces</a>

CBC captioning errors and omissions

2006-07-04T15:47:00-04:00

I’m now keeping a running tally of CBC captioning errors and omissions:. And you can even subscribe via RSS!

Response to CMP ‘Captioning Key’

2006-06-06T13:53:00-04:00

Response to <acronym>CMP</acronym> <cite>Captioning Key</cite>: A critique of the lavishly-funded Captioned Media Program’s captioning “style” guide