The next meeting of Colne Valley Flower Club is in the Orpen Memorial Hall Lexden Road on Wednesday 15 October beginning at 7.30pm. Members are invited to 'Bring a Friend Free'. Alan Smith from Ipswich who was part of the NAFAS team to exhibit at Chelsea last year will demonstrate his arrangements entitled 'Autumn Glory'.This material has been developed for the West Bergholt Village Website accessible at...

James Graham has set up a Facebook group against big pictures in people's headers, citing my blog as one of his examples. Harping on about bandwidth etc, any other blogger writers will know that this pic unlike those in your posts do not have the size adjustment facilities as easily accessible. Well I've found where I stored the pic and now am asking what should I do. So I've set up a new...

I attended Scripting Enabled: fact finding day, yesterday. The organiser Christian Heilmann Did something rather fantastic - his vision was to get geeks and disabled people together to communicate web accessibility difficulties. Tech altruism here. People who wanted to help and learn versus people who wanted real life solutions - many of which are out there, are infinitely doable, it's just about finding a common language and priority list. There was a second day, Saturday, the hack day where I gather much brainstorming went on. Look at the page and you'll see some plans to be taken forward. Before I start writing about what I got from the day and how it sparked my imagination, I should just write a little bit about me and what I do first for those of you reading this because I've tagged...

Obama’s been criticised pretty much by everybody for not having easily accessible tag lines. But where Sarah Palin had her lipstick moment: Obama’s now got this: “The old boys’ network: in the McCain campaign that’s called a staff meeting.” Long overdue. Now link in Phil Gramm and get McCain to lie through his teeth squirm.       ...

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I'm planning on taking a walk across the Golden Gate Bridge and was wondering if the Vista Point on the Marin side (map) is easy to walk to and approximately how long it will take to get there from the end of the bridge. Also, what are the best view points of the bridge that are accessible by foot or public transport? How about the Bay Bridge? Is it worth travelling to take photos of that bridge beyond viewing it from the......

I've noticed a thread on Liberal Democrat Voice in the Members' Forum about policy making and debating at Federal Conference. My London Region colleague, Jeremy Hargreaves, has noted that Regional Conferences are far more accessible yet don't tend to be fora for policy discussions. He is, unsurprisingly, quite right. So here's a challenge. I'm willing to sponsor a motion at the...

Over 60 children of various ages from the village had a wonderful time in St Mary's church and hall during the summer holidays.Teams plied their skills in games, drawing, quizzes, bible teaching and crafts. On the last day over a hundred including parents enjoyed the barbecue lunch.Kate wishes to thank all those that generously gave their time to help with the activities.This material has been developed for the West Bergholt Village Website accessible at...

This takes place on Saturday 13 September from 10am to 6pm from St Mary's Church. Walk or cycle around Essex churches to raise money for your church or chapel and Essex Churches Trust.Contact 01206 272449 for more information and sponsor forms.This material has been developed for the West Bergholt Village Website accessible at...

1. Jesus Band Aids2. Hello Kitty Band Aids - not nearly as good, but cheaper. Interesting.3. Two giant size tubs of ibuprofen4. Two hats5. An accessible good lame clutch bag6a. Prescription sunglasses6b. Accessible moistened lens cloths7. Some books8. Some jewellry9. A pair of shoes which don't really fit me but I had to buy because I knackered the others and I was working again today and yesterday was a bank holiday and they were the only things in America which even nearly fitted10. Some other stuff I have forgotten aboutJESUS BAND AIDS! I can't wait to injure myself...

The new term for the baby & toddler group begins on Monday 8 September in the Methodist church hall, Chapel Lane from 9am to 11.30am.There will be a visit from the Health Visitor.For further information contact Rachel Hopking 01206 242342.This material has been developed for the West Bergholt Village Website accessible at...

James Corden to write jokes on Wall's lollies - Telegraph A spokesman for Wall's Ice Cream said: "We want to re-launch the jokes on lolly sticks and we thought that using a comedian like James would be ideal. "James is an up and coming comedian who is cutting edge and some of his jokes could make ice cream even more accessible to people. "We want to update the current jokes and make them more relevant. "cutting edge, relevant, accessible" Doesn't that sort of marketing guff make you want to shove a 99 where the sun don't shine? But he failed to get the full house as he missed out...

Dizzy is getting in a tizzy with the Number 10 website.Clearly the disabled, especially those who might be blind and using braille readers (how ironic) are not expected to look at the new Number 10 website. After all, it fails on numerous occasions to conform to accessibility compliancy which are apparently Government policy.As you can see, by way of proof, Dizzy has run the site through the W3C Markup Validator and it has returned a number of errors. There is only one problem with his analysis...The Markup Validator has almost nothing to do with Web Accessibility.Anyone who thinks that their site is Accessible simply because their markup (that is the HTML, XHML, etc.) or CSS is entirely validated is deluding themselves. If you want to ensure that your site really is Accessible, then...

I've had a "sneaky-peeky" of the party's new website, which is currently being finalised. I have to say that I am unnaturally excited by it. The look and feel of it is much more interactive and much more "with it". It looks a little more like a blog than the current site and is generally much more whizzy and accessible. I particularly like the buttons on the front page which allow you to...

Travel: Euan Ferguson: It doesn't get more isolated - or beautiful - than western Scotland's Knoydart peninsula, accessible only by boat or a rugged 16-mile...

There will be a coffee morning on Wednesday 13 August in the Methodist Church Hall, Chapel Lane, from 10am to 11.30am.Gifts for cake and general stalls would be appreciated.Greetings cards will also be on sale. Everyone can be assured of a warm welcomeThis material has been developed for the West Bergholt Village Website accessible at...

Portia Von Trapp (pictured above in an American Vogue fashion spread) is THE woman of the moment.  She has been described in her modelling portfolio as "the most beautiful woman of her generation - accessible but edgy, with an appeal which will extend beyond fashion and will rock the entire world to its very foundations." The twenty year old - who is definitely NOT a socialite or a rich, stupid...

I thoroughly recommend the LibDem Voice members' survey which is accessible over at the LibDem Voice members' forum. The questions are very intelligent and relevant. However, one question, with its two possible alternative answers, had me having to contain an episode of apoplexy: And do you think Make it Happen's tax-cuts pledge is a tactically smart thing to promise, regardless of whether you...

The organiser of the Lifeboat collection in the village would like to thank everyone who helped to raise £896. Colchester District total was £8,484.54.(Pictured is Clacton-on-Sea Lifeboat in action)This material has been developed for the West Bergholt Village Website accessible at...

I am all for high brow culture being accessible to all, in fact I am all for everyone embracing high brow culture, so I am somewhat hopeful about this.That said, people embrace high brow, and indeed low brow culture for snobbish reasons as well, so cue the patronising comments about Sun readers, plus comments about where some people can stuff their Opera as...

I am a little out of touch with what’s been happening in Northern Ireland over the past fortnight. However my first stop to catch up with events over the twelfth was Redemption’s Son, where Ignited and others have continued to record the marching season through the prism of their participation. In describing the twelfth parade in Ballyclare, Ignited mentions comments by Orange Order chaplain Rev Stephen Dickinson who launched a broadside against the day developing toward ‘cultural tourism’. It is, he maintains, about Protestantism and about Britishness. I commented on the blog itself that I saw no reason why the Order should not continue to demonstrate both its faith and its culture, whilst simultaneously welcoming those who share neither to its parades and fostering a fun...

Via The Ministry of Type, it seems that a bunch of people are trying to create a new accessible typeface: Serious Sans aims to take Comic Sans as a base and then improve on it.Now that's what I call "polishing a turd."...

A very much neglected (by me) corner of the EU Referendum empire is our blogroll - also accessible via our links button on the left.Anyhow, this is to be remedied, and I have added eight more links, as below (plus cleaning some out).Captains JournalCommon Agricultural PolicyDaily ReferendumEU CorruptionEzra LevantHouse of Dumb Neil ShearingPeter NavarroPolitics, etcIf you think there is a blog that ought to added to the list, let me know either by e-mail or on the forum and I'll look at...

Text accessibility hints … 1 - Designing Accessible Text—Part 2: Text Size “In print, designers are responsible for setting text size, whereas on the Web, designing text is a collaboration between designer and user.” (tags: typography design CSS size text webdev) Tags: links...

On Sunday 13 July, New Horizon Majorettes are holding a Summer Competition in the Orpen Memorial Hall, Lexden Road. There will be Majorettes from Essex and Suffolk competing.This is a fun day for anyone to view together with a barbecue, tombola and raffle.The music begins at 8.30am. For further information contact 07515 749296.This material has been developed for the West Bergholt Village Website accessible at...

Pictured giving people in Donard Drive an early morning call (5am) recently as it strutted along the rooftops our reporter had no idea where it came from or went to. If you have interesting pictures or stories to tell about life in West Bergholt, why not send them to the village webmaster?This material has been developed for the West Bergholt Village Website accessible at...

The village drama group are running a series of summer workshops in the Orpen Memorial Hall on Friday 4/18 July and 8 August beginning at 8pm. The group is hoping to generate interest for people who would like to 'Tread the Boards' or design sets, help with make up, prompting etc. For further information contact Colin on 01206 242265.This material has been developed for the West Bergholt Village Website accessible at...

You can now donate online via Paypal to the David Davis by election campaign by clicking HERE.I understand that some people have had difficulty in accessing his site over the last 24 hours. This is because when you put a website live you don't just flick a switch. The DNS has to propagate all round the internet (at least, I think that is the phrase) and this can take up to 24 hours. It should be fully accessible now, so the web geeks tell me....

It's Bloomsday on Monday. Norm sez that he hasn't read Ulysees.I've never read it cover-to-cover, but dipping in to it works.A friend of mine who knows about these things said that listening to Ulysees as an audiobook was a revelation. He'd struggled to read it for ages until someone lent him the box-set on CD. He loved it, and said that it was surprisingly accessible.Another thing for the to-do list...

A message from Stuart Wheeler has been received by this blog, asking for support for his legal case against the government for a referendum on the constitutional Lisbon treaty. He would like (all of) us to act on this, offering very convincing reasons why we should.We have added a link to his site on our blogroll, accessible from the button on the...