18 March, 2016

Nobody is singing the Aria.

The lack of clear and readily available documentation for support of Section 508, WAI-ARIA, and other accessibility standards in the various JSF libraries, such as ICEfaces and PrimeFaces, is shocking, and really pretty shameful.

Given that the support of user with various disabilities is not only the morally and ethically right thing to do, but in many cases is actually required by law in the US and most other countries, it points to a lack of interest by those privileged to not have to deal with those disabilities.

I suppose that means me, too.

07 March, 2016

SOP

What do you call it when the person knowledgeable on an legacy technology retires, there is not a replacement hired yet, and then an internal customer requests enhancements involving that technology and some other legacy systems?

Oh, yea, and the development environment for that legacy system has gone AWOL? And then your manager's manager very publicly put you in charge of dealing with it?

Oh, yea, business as usual.