Love Local: Echidna Staff Recommendations
Local businesses give a community its flavour. When you personally know the people behind the business or are buying local products and services, you…
Observations from my First Hackathon
Hackathons. These marathon computer-programming competitions generally involve spending the day (or days) with strangers, forming teams around a…
The Lone Star State Offered Big Opportunities
The old adage states that everything is bigger in Texas. Well, I can attest to that not only from a brontosaurus-sized rib that beat me one dinner…
Removing Accessibility Barriers to Promote Independence and Inclusion
"The barriers I face as a blind person can be eliminated by changes to the environment." Those were the words of Jim Sanders, former CNIB president…
Start by Defining the Content Architecture For Your Website
Defining the content architecture of your website is one of the first steps we lead clients through in our initial Discovery Process. There are two…
Experiencing the Web as a Near Totally Blind User - First-Hand Accessibility Part I
I've talked in detail about specific accessibility improvements that affect me directly as a blind computer user. In a new series that I'm starting…
Giving Back? How to Make it a Part of Who We Are
To misquote Lao Tzu, a journey of 472 steps begins with a single step. As Digital Echidna participated in today’s Stair Climb in support of the United…
Echidna, Fanshawe Program Embraces Knowledge-Sharing Ideal of Drupal
As you know, the heart of Drupal is built upon a foundation of collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and teamwork. As an open-source technology, Drupal…
Don't Just Aggregate, Curate and Add Value
I was reading a few blog posts recently and something struck me as odd. I couldn't put my finger on why they rubbed me the wrong way. I mean, they…
A Tale of Two Keynotes
A recent story about the iRobot Roomba vacuum collecting and selling data about their owners homes reminded me of two different presentations I was…