Organisation - Alt

• Augmented Reality in Education: The SCARLET+ Experience

  Laura Skilton, Matt Ramirez, Guyda Armstrong, Rose Lock, Jean Vacher and Marie-Therese Gramstadt describe augmented reality in education case studies from the University of Sussex and the University for the Creative Arts.

• 'Does He Take Sugar?': The Risks of Standardising Easy-to-read Language

  Brian Kelly, Dominik Lukeš and Alistair McNaught highlight the risks of attempting to standardise easy-to-read language for online resources.

• Editorial Introduction to Issue 70

  The editor introduces readers to the content of Ariadne Issue 70.

• Seb Schmoller Replies

  Stepping down from his pivotal role as CEO at ALT, Seb Schmoller kindly answers a few questions from Ariadne on his perspective on online learning.

• Piloting Web Conferencing Software: Experiences and Challenges

  Julian Prior and Marie Salter report on their experiences piloting Elluminate Live! at the University of Bath.

• Product Review: The IPad and the Educator, First Impressions

  Brian Whalley reports on his initial impressions of the new Apple iPad in the first three weeks since its release in the USA and what it has to offer the mobile educator.

• An Attack on Professionalism and Scholarship? Democratising Archives and the Production of Knowledge

  Andrew Flinn describes some recent developments in democratising the archive and asks whether these developments really deserve to be viewed as a threat to professional and academic standards.

• The Norwegian National Digital Library

  Marianne Takle describes the National Library of Norway's digitisation strategy and how the National Library is taking on a key role in the country's digital library service.

• News and Events

  Ariadne presents a brief summary of news and events.

• Googlepository and the University Library

  Sue Manuel and Charles Oppenheim discuss the concept of Google as a repository within the wider context of resource management and provision in Further and Higher Education.

• Evaluating Web Sites for Accessibility With Firefox

  Patrick Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review.

• Involving Users in the Development of a Web Accessibility Tool

  Jenny Craven and Mikael Snaprud describe how the EC-funded European Internet Accessibility Observatory Project is involving users in the development of a Web accessibility checking and monitoring tool.

• Towards a Pragmatic Framework for Accessible E-Learning

  Lawrie Phipps, Neil Witt and Brian Kelly while recognising the importance of accessibility in e-learning resources, query the universal applicability of the Web Accessibility Initiative's guidelines and describe a pragmatic framework which provides a broader context for their use.

• Web Accessibility Revealed: The Museums, Libraries and Archives Council Audit

  Marcus Weisen, Helen Petrie, Neil King and Fraser Hamilton describe a comprehensive Web accessibility audit involving extensive user testing as well as automatic testing of Web sites.

• Mozilla Firefox for Rapid Web Development and Testing

  Patrick Lauke takes a quick look at Firefox, the new browser released by the Mozilla Foundation, and points out useful features and extensions for Web developers.

• Developing and Publicising a Workable Accessibility Strategy

  Lawrie Phipps, Sue Harrison, David Sloan and Betty Willder look at the increasing need for developers of institutional and educational Web sites to develop and follow a strategy for ensuring optimal accessibility of online content.

• WebWatch: How Accessible Are Australian University Web Sites?

  Dey Alexander reports on a recent study of the accessibility of Australian university Web sites.

• Web Focus: Interfaces to Web Testing Tools

  Brian Kelly looks at interfaces to Web testing tools, and in particular at Bookmarklets - simple extensions to browsers which enhance functionality.

• Web Watch: An Accessibility Analysis of UK University Entry Points

  Brian Kelly reports on the accessibility of entry points of UK University Web sites.

• Web Focus: Guidelines for URI Naming Policies

  Brian Kelly with some guidelines For URI naming policies in his regular column.

• Search Engines: Goodbye Alta Vista, Hallo AllTheWeb

  Phil Bradley's regular column.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• EEVL Update

  Roddy MacLeod and Linda Kerr provide news about the EEVL service

• OpenResolver: A Simple OpenURL Resolver

  Andy Powell describes UKOLN's OpenResolver, a freely available demonstration OpenURL resolver.

• Project GOLD: Supporting Distance Learning Students

  Derek Morisson describes an e-learning project which was the antithesis of the current trend towards multifunction, and invariably expensive, Virtual Learning Environments and sophisticated Managed Learning Environments.

• Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG): Vector Graphics for the Web

  David Duce discusses the World Wide Web Consortium's Scalable Vector Graphics markup language for 2 dimensional graphics.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Web Focus: HTML is Dead!

  HTML is Dead: Brian Kelly explains why this is, and why it is a good thing.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Web Watch: WebWatching eLib Project Web Sites

  Brian Kelly is WebWatching the eLib Project Sites.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Web Focus: Reflections On WWW9

  Brian Kelly reports on the WWW9 conference, held in Amsterdam, in May 2000.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• The DISinHE Centre: Web CT Accessibility

  Murray Rowan examines WebCT from the point of view of accessibility.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Electronic Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts

  Charles E. Jones and David Schloen report on a Chicago conference which explored XML tagging for Ancient Near Eastern Texts on the Web.

• Search Engines: The Altavista Relaunch, Personalised Search Engines

  Phil Bradley on the Altavista relaunch, and Personalised Search Engines.

• Web Focus: Using the Web to Promote Your Web Site

  Brian Kelly expalins how to promote your web site.

• DISinHE: Web Content Accessibility

  Paul Booth discusses Web content accessibility.

• Web Watch: 404s, What's Missing?

  Brian Kelly discusses 404 'not found' messages, and why you don't always get the same one.

• Metadata: Image Retrieval

  Michael Day reports on combining content-based and metadata-based approaches.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Netskills Corner: Multimedia Web Design

  Netskills Corner: Multimedia Web Design: Walter Scales considers multimedia web design, asking whether we are running down an up escalator.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Search Engines Corner: Moving Up the Ranks

  Tracey Stanley looks at how search engines rank their results.

• Web Focus: WebWatching UK Universities and Colleges

  Brian Kelly describes the WebWatch project.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Disabil-IT? Part 2: Software for Students With Dyslexia, and Software Design Issues

  Isobel Stark presents the second part of her report on the Disabil-IT? Conference. In this article, software for students with dyslexia is looked at, and issues to bear in mind when designing software which may be used by students with disabilities are listed.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Wire: Interview with Nick Gibbins

  Nick Gibbins is put under the virtual spotlight to answer a few questions via email.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell, giving a wry spin on the topic of Peer Review.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Cartoon

  New cartoon work by Malcolm Campbell.

• Libtech '96: eLib goes to Libtech '96

  John Kirriemuir gives a brief overview of the eLib presence at the Libtech '96 event.

• Seb Schmoller