TheHumblePedant

Accessible PDFs Part 3: Web-Based Solution

As you can probably tell from the title, we ultimately decided that a web-based solution would best serve this particular product given the different types of media examples. That doesn’t mean that an accessible PDF isn’t still useful, but they are better served for simple documents composed of running text and, at most, a someContinue reading “Accessible PDFs Part 3: Web-Based Solution”

Accessible PDFs Part 2: The Project in Progress

I am in way over my head. I can do this! Just when I was starting feel so confident. It’s just gonna take some creative thinking! But I could use some help… The project It is a ten-page interactive PDF describing different types of plagiarism and includes multiple examples of how to properly cite variousContinue reading “Accessible PDFs Part 2: The Project in Progress”

Anne Rice’s Passing Part 2

As I continue to grieve my favorite author’s death, I’ve now entered a new stage in which I’m grateful that she lived as long as she did and was therefore able to gift us such a vast collection of books spanning multiple arenas of the gothic genre. I find myself also thinking of two ofContinue reading “Anne Rice’s Passing Part 2”

“What a ride you took us on, kid.”

Per Christopher Rice’s Facebook post on Anne Rice’s personal page, that’s what her younger sister, Karen, said to her after saying her final goodbyes when she died of complications resulting from a stroke over the weekend. I wrote that line at the top of this week’s page in my little agenda planner. It really wasContinue reading ““What a ride you took us on, kid.””

Creating Accessible PDFs: My Learning Journey—Part 1

Sometime toward the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, I was “voluntold” to be part of a universal design committee at my job—a prospect that held a *little* bit of interest for me given my background in psychology and my current position as an editor/writer for our university’s instructional design team, but it wasn’t really myContinue reading “Creating Accessible PDFs: My Learning Journey—Part 1”

Obligatory Pandemic Post

I’ve more or less ignored this blog since the COVID-19 pandemic began—er, not so much ignored it as became so overwhelmed every time I opened up a blank page to write that I would stare for an hour and nothing would come out—or what I did produce didn’t meet my standards. This post might notContinue reading “Obligatory Pandemic Post”

Student Loan Progress: What We Know So Far

US DOE Official Update: March 20 Edited March 21, 2020 to add current information As of Friday, March 20, the US Department of Education formally announced that “all borrowers with federally held student loans will automatically have their interest rates set to 0% for a period of at least 60 days. In addition, each ofContinue reading “Student Loan Progress: What We Know So Far”

Serenading My Cat for Breakfast

To be sung to the tune of the chorus from “Straight On” by Heart He wakes me straight up for food Meows controllin’ my mind Done with dry stuff, now he wants wet meat Straight up … Straight up Fancy Feast Straight up Fan-cy Feast

Poshmark Seller’s Campaigns: November 2019 Rundown

It took a while for the rollout of Campaigns since the Posh Affiliate program was first announced, but now that it’s here, I just spent the better part of my Saturday perusing the interface and the available campaigns for this month. To participate in campaigns under Post Affiliate one must either be a Posh AmbassadorContinue reading “Poshmark Seller’s Campaigns: November 2019 Rundown”

10 Game of Thrones Characters Still Alive in the Books

While Game of Thrones has ended as a TV series, George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire books series still has two books yet to be completed. In order to fit the huge and complex world Martin built into a digestible television format, many plot points and characters were changed or omitted,Continue reading “10 Game of Thrones Characters Still Alive in the Books”