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Pat Fitzmaurice is addicted to competitive cooking shows ("Top Chef," "Chopped," Hell's Kitchen," etc.), and he also loves to eat. Since he isn't much of a cook, he's channeling his chef obsession into Fitz's Four-Course Fantasy Feast, a regular column featuring an appetizer, salad, entrée and dessert. Bon appétit.
Appetizer: Imitation-crab ceviche
Don't knock imitation crab. It's a perfectly reasonable substitute for the real thing as long as there are other flavors highlighting the dish.
On the subject of "imitation" ... this season has opened my mind as far as seeing potential in players I might have otherwise been quick to write off. If the mild-tasting fish Alaska pollock can reasonably imitate crabmeat, maybe the mild-scoring Michael Crabtree could reasonably imitate, say, Dwayne Bowe at some point in the near future.
That notion may seem absurd on its face. Bowe is putting up freakish numbers this season (more on that later). Crabtree is just sort of tootling along, catching the occasional TD pass but generally frustrating his fantasy owners. Aside from his 105-yard game against the Eagles in Week Five, Crabtree hasn't had more than 61 receiving yards in any game this season, and only twice has he caught more than four passes in a game. In 22 games as a pro, Crabtree has seven TD catches and just the one 100-yard game. On any decent fantasy team, he's a No. 3 receiver at best.
But we know there's latent talent lurking there. No one who ever watched Crabtree during his college days at Texas Tech could deny that. He'll also tease his fantasy owners with the occasional circus catch. It obviously doesn't help that Crabtree has yet to play with a genuinely decent NFL quarterback, but there's no question that Crabtree has underachieved as a pro thus far.
Bowe was similarly frustrating to his fantasy owners early in his NFL career. Talent clearly wasn't the issue; Bowe's ability was evident from the start. But like Crabtree, he ran hot and cold and developed a reputation for being moody. No doubt a lot of fantasy owners had already given up on Bowe going into this season. No doubt a lot of fantasy owners are ready to give up on Crabtree.
Who knows? Maybe the bulb will never flick on for Crabtree. But in light of what Bowe is doing this season, I'll feel compelled to take a longer look at Crabtree in the weeks leading up to next year's fantasy drafts.
Ditto for Toby Gerhart. I sort of wrote him off as just another plodding white guy when I watched him in the preseason and saw how slow he looked getting to and through holes. But with Peyton Hillis, another stocky Caucasian running back with a mediocre 40-time, going absolutely bonkers this season, I'm inclined to keep Gerhart on my watch list awhile longer.
Gerhart was a bona fide college star at Stanford; Hillis played third fiddle to Darren McFadden and Felix Jones at Arkansas. College pedigree doesn't count for much at the NFL level, but Hillis and Gerhart aren't entirely dissimilar players. Hillis runs with far more power than Gerhart and is on an entirely different level right now, but I'd be eager to see what Gerhart could do with more reps. He might get them this week with Adrian Peterson's status in limbo because of an ankle injury.
Salad: Chef salad
As mentioned in the introductory paragraph above, I am an avid fan of competitive cooking shows. This led to some ridicule at a fantasy draft in early September, when I confused Aaron Hernandez, the rookie tight end for the New England Patriots, with Aarón Sanchez, who co-stars on the Food Network's "Chefs vs. City" and occasionally serves as a judge on "Chopped."
My benevolent competitors allowed me to take Hernandez and did not force me to roster a celebrity chef. But there's little doubt that Aarón the restaurateur was more productive on Thanksgiving Day than Aaron the tight end. Hernandez caught one pass for 18 yards against the Lions and has caught two passes over the last three weeks. (The other reception was an eight-yard TD grab against the Colts in Week 11.) Hernandez was only on the field for 11 snaps against the Steelers in Week 10. He played 18 snaps against the Colts the following week, then 17 snaps against the Lions on Thanksgiving.
Less than a month ago Hernandez was regarded as a top-five fantasy tight end. Now he's seemingly a spare part in the Patriots' offense. What gives?
It's hard to tell whether Hernandez is in Bill Belichick's doghouse or if his limited playing time in recent weeks is circumstantial. Fellow rookie TE Rob Gronkowski has gotten a lot of action lately, with a five-catch, three-TD game against the Steelers and a five-catch game against the Lions. Then there's the presence of Alge Crumpler, once a premier pass-catching tight end, now one of the better pure blocking tight ends in the league.
But I think it's too early to give up on Hernandez for this season, even though fantasy football's regular season is nearly over. The Patriots obviously had clear roles in mind for their young tight ends when they drafted Gronkowski in the second round and Hernandez in the fourth, with Crumpler already on board. Hernandez is the worst blocker of the three, but he's the only one who offers downfield potential in the passing game. The Pats might need that downfield potential this week against the Jets.
Darrelle Revis, the best cornerback in football, is capable of taking any New England receiver completely out of Monday night's game, and Jets CB Antonio Cromartie is no slouch. With the Patriots' wideouts locked up in tight coverage, Tom Brady may be forced to work his tight ends into the passing game. When the Patriots played the Jets in Week Two, Hernandez had six receptions for 101 yards. No New England wide receiver (including Randy Moss, still with the Pats at the time) had more than 38 receiving yards. This could be the week that Hernandez returns to relevance.
Entrée: Kansas City barbecue platter
Grab some extra napkins, because this sampler platter includes brisket, a half slab of ribs, some "burnt ends" (as served in the legendary Kansas City barbecue restaurant Arthur Bryant's) and plenty of sauce.
I'm in a Kansas City state of mind this week as the Chiefs prepare to host the Broncos in a divisional battle that offers plenty of extra zest. You might recall that Chiefs head coach Todd Haley refused a postgame handshake from Broncos head coach Josh McDaniels following the Broncos' 49-29 win three weeks ago. Haley later apologized (though not directly to McDaniels). But there's little doubt the Chiefs are itching for payback against a Broncos team that has since hit the skids, giving up 71 points in its last two games. Personally, I suspect that Haley was less upset about the Broncos continuing to throw the ball with a big fourth-quarter lead than he was about a timeout that the Broncos called with 10 seconds left in the game. No matter. The bottom line is that payback would be as sweet as any barbecue sauce in the K.C. metropolitan area.
Earlier, I mentioned Dwayne Bowe and the ridiculous numbers he's been producing. Bowe has 14 TD catches, which is three more than Calvin Johnson and five more than anyone else in the NFL. He's scored 13 of those touchdowns in his last seven games. In his last three games, he has 32 catches (including two 13-catch games) for 465 yards and seven TDs. I can't imagine that there's a Bowe owner anywhere in America who has failed to win at least two games over the last three weeks.
What's truly remarkable is that Bowe has been able to do this even though the Chiefs have no other credible threat at wide receiver. Bowe has 58 receptions. The next-highest reception total among the Chiefs' wide receivers is 15 for Dexter McCluster — and it's debatable whether McCluster is a wide receiver or a running back. After McCluster, WRs Chris Chambers and Terrance Copper both have 13 catches. Even if you include McCluster with the wideouts, Bowe has accounted for 56.3 percent of the receptions by Chiefs wide receivers this season. His 885 receiving yards represent 64.9 percent of the receiving yardage for Kansas City wideouts.
There's no way the Chiefs could pull off this one-man show at receiver if they didn't run the ball so often and so effectively. Kansas City is dragging pro football back to the 1970s with a run-pass ratio that's probably putting a smile on the face of former NFL coach Chuck Knox (nickname: "Ground Chuck").
The Chiefs have a league-high 389 rushing attempts and have run the ball on 53.5 percent of their plays. Of their 4,127 total yards, 1,917 have come on the ground (46.5 percent). For the sake of comparison, let's look at a team with a fairly well-balanced offense: the Houston Texans. The Texans have run the ball on 43.3 percent of their offensive plays. Rushing yardage accounts for 36.0 percent of Houston's total yardage. Even for some of the NFL's other run-heavy teams, rushing yardage accounts for a significantly smaller percentage of total offense than it does for the Chiefs. Rushing yardage has accounted for 42.3 percent of Jacksonville's total offense, 41.6 percent of Oakland's, 41.0 of the New York Jets', 39.5 percent of Tennessee's and 37.7 percent of Cleveland's.
It isn't hard for the Chiefs to sell play-action after using Jamaal Charles and Thomas Jones to hammer away at opposing defenses. It's hard to concentrate on stopping Bowe when you have to be concerned about a running game that averages 4.9 yards per carry.
Aside from noting the sheer awesomeness of Dwayne Bowe and the delightfully Paleolithic offensive tendencies of Haley and offensive coordinator Charlie Weis, there's no particular point here, except this:
Heaven help you if you face Bowe in a must-win fantasy game this weekend. It's bad enough that you're going up against a guy who's so piping hot. But a guy who's that hot AND playing for a team that's looking to really stick it to a hated rival? My prayers are with you, friend.
Dessert: Biscotti
Biscotti goes great with coffee, and biscotti and coffee go great with deep conversations about complex subjects like ethics and morality. I can't promise any depth here, but let's talk fantasy football ethics for a moment. (And try the biscotti, won't you?)
OK, here's the situation: One of my leagues has 14 teams and three divisions, and the regular season lasts 13 weeks. The three division winners get a first-round bye in the playoffs while two wild-card teams slug it out. The first wild-card spot is based on record. The second wild-card spot goes to the highest-scoring team that doesn't otherwise qualify for a playoff spot.
The highest-scoring team in this league (and also the scariest team by far) has a record of 6-6. This team stumbled to a 2-6 start as Greg Jennings and Maurice Jones-Drew began the year sluggishly. There were also issues at quarterback until Michael Vick came back from his rib injury and became a lineup regular. Now, this team is unleashing Jennings, Jones-Drew, Vick and Peyton Hillis on opponents every week. Its owner has cleaned up in the league's auxiliary pool, with his team posting the league's highest score in each of the last four weeks. This team has no chance to win its division but is a lock for a wild-card spot based on total points.
One owner sits at 9-3, has clinched a division title and will clinch the No. 1 playoff seed with a win in this week's regular-season finale. If he loses this week, he will likely be overtaken by either of two 8-4 teams (one of which is mine) that would hold the tiebreaker over him.
The No. 1 playoff seed meets the winner of the wild-card game in one semifinal, while the No. 2 and No. 3 seeds meet in the other. With the most lethal team in the league being a wild-card entry, there's not much incentive to be the No. 1 seed. In fact, the prospect of meeting Team Kick-Your-Tail is a significant disincentive.
The question is: Is it ethical for the team owner currently holding the No. 1 seed to tank it this week if the result of his game affects other playoff races? Would it be ethical even if it had no bearing on one team making the playoffs over another?
Chew that one over for a while, along with your biscotti. And if you're so moved, drop me a note at firstname.lastname@example.com letting me know what you think. I'm curious about how other people see this.


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The 67th Greatest Royal of All-Time is Bob Oliver
Before there was the Curse of Balboni there was the Curse of Bob Oliver
Bob Oliver was a versatile ballplayer and the first power hitter in Royals history. His twenty-seven home runs in 1970 was the franchise record until John Mayberry topped the mark in 1975. His son, Darren, born in Kansas City, also became a major leaguer as a left-handed pitcher.
Oliver was from Shreveport, Louisiana and signed with the Pittsburgh Pirates as an amateur free agent in 1963. He established himself as a power hitting outfielder with double digit home run totals in five of his six minor league seasons. In December of 1967, he was dealt by the Pittsburgh Pirates to the Minnesota Twins for veteran pitcher Ron Kline. The next season, he set a career high in home runs for AAA Denver with twenty, while hitting .297 for the Twins top affiliate.
Despite that performance, the Twins left the twenty-six year old Oliver unprotected for the 1969 Expansion Draft. The Royals, looking for offense, took Oliver with the nineteenth pick. He made the opening day starting lineup as the team's right-fielder, but got off to a horrid 1-23 start to begin his Royals career. He soon began to heat up, however. On May 2, he went 4-7 in a doubleheader with a home run and four RBI, and on May 4, he went 6-6 with a home run and three RBI. On July 4, he hit the first grand slam in Royals history, off Seattle's Jim Bouton. He had enough athleticism to play all three outfield positions, although he spend most of his time in right field. Oliver ended 1969 with a .254 average, and his thirteen home runs were second on the ballclub.
Oliver provided even more lineup flexibility in 1970 by splitting time between first base and third base. He got off to a great start, hitting .300 in April with a pair of multi-homer games and five home runs in the last week of April. A late September slump lowered his average to .260, but Oliver ended the year with 27 home runs and 99 RBI, both franchise records, and among the top ten in the league. Oliver's more natural position was first base, but interestingly he posted a .698 OPS at first base in 112 games, but a .909 OPS at third base in 46 games.
Oliver spent that winter in Puerto Rico, leading the winter league in home runs and RBI, giving the Royals reason to believe he would be the source of much of their power in 1971. He began the season at first base, but his power had evaporated. By the end of May he was hitting just .247 with only three home runs and a measly .336 slugging percentage. In June, the Royals moved Oliver to right field and used Chuck Harrison and Gail Hopkins at first base. Oliver ended the year with just eight home runs and a .351 slugging percentage.
Oliver looked to bounce back in 1972, and by May he had a .270 average, although his power had not returned. He had just one home run and a .381 slugging percentage. On May 5, the Royals shipped him to California for starting pitcher Tom Murphy. There were rumblings that Oliver was upset at the lack of African-Americans on the team, particularly since the trading of outfielder Pat Kelly. However, in public Oliver had nothing but pleasant things to say about the Royals.
"It's tough to leave a club that you've been with this long. It's been a long association and I've made some good friends. I like Kansas City. My wife likes Kansas City. I'm not really surprised because they've been trying to trade me for two years."
The Angels put Oliver back at first base and he regained his power in Anaheim, hitting nineteen home runs for the Angels that year, including three against his former teammates. He finished in the top ten in RBI with 76, in hits with 154, and in triples with five in the strike-shortened season.
The Angels played Oliver all over the field in 1973, at first base, third base and in right-field. He continued to hit for power, hitting eighteen home runs and eighty-nine RBI. In 1974 Oliver split time between first base and third base, but his power dropped off precipitously, as he hit just eight home runs. Late in the year he was sold to the Baltimore Orioles as part of their push for the pennant.
Oliver began 1975 with the Yankees, but only played in eighteen games due to injury, hitting .138 before being released in July.
"My knees gave up on me. I didn't give up on baseball.."It was hard to just stand up, let alone play the game. It showed up in my performance. Balls get through that you used to easily grab, and you couldn't leg out a ground ball at the plate."
After retiring, Oliver tried to get into coaching, but found it difficult to find work. He instead worked for an oil company, then moved to Sacramento to work for McKesson Health. In 1999, he managed an independent league team in Sacramento. He also runs a Baseball Academy in the Sacramento area.
Today Bob Oliver is retired, enjoying watching his son pitch for the Los Angeles Angels.

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The Federal Trade Commission is suing Amazon over charges that the company has not done enough to prevent children from making millions of dollars in unauthorized in-app purchases, according to a complaint filed Thursday in federal court.
WellPoint CEO Joseph Swedish says that when people ask what a doctor's appointment will be like in the future, they assume that patients will physically have to visit an office.
A two-year slump in personal computer sales ended in the second quarter, helped by improving demand in developed markets like North America and Europe.
Google has chosen five charities to develop ideas using Web-connected Google Glass to enhance their work.
More American households are ditching their old telephones: 4 out of 10 only use cellphones, a government survey shows.
Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are developing an audio reading device to be worn on the index finger of people whose vision is impaired, giving them affordable and immediate access to printed words.
Google's removal of search results in Europe is drawing accusations of press censorship, as stories from some of the continent's most prominent news outlets begin vanishing. The U.S. internet giant said Thursday it is getting 1,000 requests a day to scrub results.
Amazon says that it is prepared to go to court against the Federal Trade Commission to defend itself against charges that it has not done enough to prevent children from making unauthorized in-app purchases.
Amazon said Wednesday that it is prepared to go to court against the Federal Trade Commission to defend itself against charges that it has not done enough to prevent children from making unauthorized in-app purchases.
British data protection authorities are investigating revelations that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users.
Americans increasingly are replacing their once-enviable 50-inch TVs with even bigger screens. Think: 65-inches and up.
In its first iteration, Google's Android Wear software for computerized wristwatches isn't so much about innovation as it is an effort at simplification.
Google Glass is slowly becoming more common in sports as teams and broadcasters try to bring fans closer to the action.
Five years after a NASA satellite to track carbon dioxide plunged into the ocean after liftoff, the space agency is launching a carbon copy - this time on a different rocket.
A saucer-shaped NASA vehicle launched by balloon high into Earth's atmosphere splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Saturday, completing a successful test on Saturday of technology that could be used to land on Mars.


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Beyond Specifications: Towards a Practical Methodology for Evaluating Web Accessibility
Panayiotis Koutsabasis, Evangelos Vlachogiannis, and Jenny S. Darzentas
Journal of Usability Studies, Volume 5, Issue 4, August 2010, pp. 157 - 171
Article Contents
Steps Towards a Practical Methodology for Web Accessibility Evaluation and Maintenance
The example of web accessibility evaluation is an important but rather small part of the practical measures that need to be taken up to ensure web accessibility. To try to work out a practical methodology for evaluating web accessibility is very important for at least two reasons. Firstly, web accessibility is a huge, diffuse and complicated more or less theoretical field of human-computer interaction so any attempt to come up with a practical design tool and advice is valuable. Secondly legislation regulating web accessibility, especially concerning official government and federal web sites and services, are now in force and are being extended into the private corporate domain. These laws are pitched at a general and abstract level, so concrete advice and practical guidelines are urgently required by anyone who designs for the web if they are to ensure that their designs comply.
Therefore we propose that a holistic approach to the management of web accessibility evaluation should include (a) identification of user requirements and set up of accessibility goals, (b) web accessibility evaluation and redesign process, and (c) establishment and follow-up of an accessibility policy.
Identification of User Requirements and Set Up of Accessibility Goals
User accessibility requirements can be identified when accessibility is included in the goals of a user-centred approach for design and evaluation. The rationale behind important work on web accessibility is that of "universal design" or "design-for-all" that includes all users without discriminating particular (types of) disabilities. On the other hand, there may be particular user accessibility requirements to be included in a web development/evaluation project that are related to specific target user groups. The general accessibility requirements of particular user groups have been reported in literature (e.g., see WebAIM, Considering the User Perspective: A Summary of Design Issues, http://www.webaim.org/articles/userperspective); however, there may be particular requirements for specific groups or access contexts that need to be identified.
When there is a need to incorporate particular requirements for specific user groups (e.g., deaf users), it is critical to remember the universal design principle and thus ensure that the web site will conform to at least a minimum level of web accessibility specifications. At present the WAI web accessibility specifications allow for levels of conformance to the guidelines. Thus, it is possible for web designers to achieve accessibility conformance at the single-A level (lowest level) and then specialise their designs for particular user groups. However, it needs to be noted that according to W3C.WAI WCAG2.0: "When a Web page is one of a series of Web pages presenting a process (i.e., a sequence of steps that need to be completed in order to accomplish an activity), all Web pages in the process conform at the specified level or better" (W3C, 2008, Conformance Requirements, number 3). Therefore, accessibility goals may be set to meet the following:
- A web accessibility specification (e.g., WCAG1.0) can occur at some level of conformance (e.g., double-A = AA).
- The requirements for (a) specific user group(s) (e.g., vision-impaired, mobility compromised, etc.) can be identified from contextual analysis provided that a minimum level of conformance to web accessibility specifications is achieved.
- Testing with well-known assistive software, such as oral browsers, screen readers, screen magnifiers, and so on, is advisable, again provided that a minimum level of conformance to web accessibility specifications is achieved.
Besides the requirements that arise from the users themselves, the web site owners can decide upon a hierarchy of services and concentrate in the first instance on making the top level accessible. For example, in the case of scientific electronic publishing a primary (top level) use might be to download a paper in a journal, whereas other services, such as the alerting service, may be given a lesser priority and be dealt with at a later stage. This does not mean that these services should not be made accessible, because by leaving them inaccessible it is not possible to claim conformance with the W3C, but more importantly it creates a two-tier user base: those who can use everything and those who can only use certain services. However for practical purposes, when faced with making a whole set of services accessible, it is reasonable to prioritise.
Web Accessibility Evaluation and Redesign Process
As the accessibility evaluation example has shown, a rapid assessment of web accessibility is possible by using free accessibility tools (automated tools that measure technical accessibility conformance to guidelines) and applying simple heuristics (manual, expert-based accessibility inspection). The use of the automated tools and the manual inspection that uses heuristics are next described as stage two of the proposed methodology. Finally, a holistic approach to accessibility evaluation and redesign also requires another important element in the process: that of user involvement through user testing. These phases of web accessibility evaluation have been also identified by other researchers such as Arch (2008), who identifies three types of web accessibility testing: automated testing, which is carried out by software tools; manual testing, which is carried out by human evaluators; and user testing, which is carried out by end-users.
Tool-based accessibility conformance to guidelines
Accessibility evaluation tools scan the source code of a web page using interpretations of either WCAG or the United States Rehabilitation Act Section 508 standard. The use of these tools is the first step for accessibility evaluation because they can quickly identify accessibility problems that can be identified at the level of the source code of a web page and produce reports with accessibility errors and warnings. These tools save the designer from the task of inspecting source code for the evaluation of accessibility and provide a first account of accessibility problems. However they cannot provide a complete account of accessibility problems mainly because accessibility is not a solely technical issue, but primarily requires human judgment. According to WebAIM (2010) of the combined 65 checkpoints in WCAG 1.0 Priority 1 through Priority 3, only 19 can be partially evaluated automatically.
A major problem for accessibility tools is that the vast majority of these tools are designed for fast evaluations of single web pages. There are no public accessibility tools that can reside on the web server, constantly monitor the web site, and are capable of crawling an entire web site to identify accessibility problems. Currently, research on the design of new generation accessibility tools attempts to address these concerns such as the MAGENTA tool (Leporini, Paterno, & Scorcia, 2006) and the BenToWeb benchmarking tools that will include the aforementioned capabilities (Herramhof et al., 2006).
Expert (manual) accessibility inspection
Manual evaluation includes a number of steps that must be followed by a designer to check the accessibility of web pages according to guidelines. These steps are another essential task of accessibility evaluation that can assess accessibility in terms of the aspects that require human judgment. Such aspects include, for example, that alternative text for images substantially describes the meaning of an image in textual form, in case this is needed (i.e., when the image conveys information and is not used for other purposes such as decoration), and that the use of colours promotes accessibility of text and images if viewed in a constrained context of use (i.e., when printed by a black and white printer).
Expert inspections of accessibility can identify a considerable number of problems that are not possible to find by using automated accessibility tools alone. Typical problems in this respect were demonstrated in the evaluation example presented in previous section. Typical inspections of web accessibility include the following:
- Inspection of human checks for accessibility according to the WCAG guidelines: WCAG explicitly refers to accessibility issues that require human check and provides techniques that can assist expert evaluators to simulate constrained access situations that users may meet due to limitations and characteristics of (assistive) technology and/or access environment. For example, disabling the colours of a web site can simulate access situations for people with colour blindness, as well as a need to view or print in black-white or in a low lighting environment.
- Inspection of accessibility following simple heuristics: There is a number of heuristics that complements those used in the example presented in section 3, (i.e., disabled images, disabled styles, and disabled colours) such as turning frames off, turning sound off, navigating without a pointing device, accessing the web site via multiple browsers, accessing the web site via text browsers, accessing the web site via a voice browser, testing with different screen resolution, and others.
The expertise required to conduct an accessibility evaluation should be wide-ranging, including both organisational and technical skills. According to the W3C.WAI an accessibility evaluator should have "an understanding of web technologies, evaluation tools, barriers that people with disabilities experience, assistive technologies and approaches that people with disabilities use, and accessibility guidelines and techniques" (2010, Evaluating Accessibility/Combined Expertise page, Recommended Expertise section).
User testing of accessibility
The involvement of users with disabilities in accessibility testing is an important aspect of accessibility evaluation. As Paddison and Engefield (2004) point out "it is not enough to follow accessible guidelines and make the appropriate technical accessibility changes... people with special accessibility needs should be considered as a distinct user profile with their own requirements, within a user-centred design process" (p. 508). It has been observed over and over that user testing with people with disabilities contributes to a better understanding of accessibility issues by all people involved, and especially web developers (Foreign & Commonwealth Office, 2010). For example, having web developers see people with disabilities accessing a web page with a voice browser helps them to identify related accessibility problems that their web site may have, such as the inappropriateness or absence of alternative text, the ordering of controls in a form, etc.
However, a user-centred accessibility evaluation will not be effective unless the site is already at a minimum level of accessibility. Even so, the inclusion of users in the accessibility evaluation process can also identify various usability, as opposed to basic accessibility, problems. Analytic methods and guidelines for involving users in accessibility evaluation include the work of Gappa and Nordbrock (2004) and Petrie, Hamilton, King, and Paven (2006).
Web Accessibility Policy
In order to reach and maintain web accessibility, web site owners need to establish a web accessibility policy that will be applied during the design, development, and operation of their web site. The accessibility policy needs to go beyond an "accessibility statement" that typically declares the specifications that web sites conform to. The policy needs to define systematic procedures, checks and tools for content updating. It has been many times observed that web sites that were accessible when first released gradually lost their accessibility when the content was updated. As an example, educators of an accessible e-learning platform or users of an accessible web log need to add content that conforms to web accessibility; this can be achieved if people are aware of accessibility issues and are able to use tools to check the content accessibility when it is inserted into the site. This is particularly important for web 2.0 applications that allow for user generated content.
Currently, web accessibility statements have been established for a number of, mainly academic and governmental, web sites and in a few e-commerce systems that are designed with the participation of organizations of people with disabilities, such as the RNIB (e.g., Gladstone, Rundle, & Alexander, 2002). An important issue for the design of the web accessibility policy is what standards, guidelines, methods, and processes should be identified from related work. In spite of the fact that there is some work in respect of accessibility policy (for a review, see Gulliksen, Harker, & Vanderheiden, 2004), we are still some way away from the recognition of a systematic accessibility policy that is implementable to the level of content generation by end users.


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Chances are, if you promised to buy their ink for life, the inkjet printer companies would probably give you the printer for free! The same thing is true with razors and the disposable blade cartridges.
All the money is in the those little, 2, 3 and 4 blade razor heads.
But now someone has come up with a little gadget that could throw a kink in the whole system.
It's called the Save A Blade. And this week, we put it to the "Does It Work?" test.
It's the automatic razor sharpener that works with all makes-- from single blade disposables to multi-blade cartridges.
But here's the headline: "Up to 200 shaves from a single blade."
Photographer, Philip Stauts brought his razor along. It's one of the most expensive on the market for replacement blades. He says the blade in this test has been on there for about two months and it's getting very dull.
Philip's skipped a few shavings for our test, so you have to admire a guy willing to use a two month old razor on a face that really needs a shave.
For our test, he'll shave one side before sharpening the blade and shave the other after using the Save A Blade.
Philip says on the "dullness scale" this razor rated about a 4...with 5 being the most dull.
The Save A Blade features a clip to hold the razor head down on the sharpener. The sharpener is hidden inside. It's a little cylinder that spins very fast. The makers say it's made of silicone carbide.
Clip your blade face down on the sharpener and hold the button down for five seconds.
Philip immediately notices the edges of the blades look shinier.
The proof will come when he shaves the other side of his face.
He could tell a difference immediately.
"Better," he says. "Without a doubt. Almost like when the blade's brand new. That's what it feels like."
The spots that were painful on the other side of his face with the dull razor, went much better this time.
On the "dullness scale" the blade did much better after five seconds on the Save A Blade.
"I would have to give it at least a two. But it's probably getting close to a one," says Philip. "It's like a brand new blade!"
Phil says he has much less skin irritation on the Save A Blade right side of his face than on the left.
"Does It Work?" We give the Save A Blade a "yes."
We got the Save A Blade at Walgreen's for $19.99. It works with all razors, but the instructions say, if you use the Schick Quattro, you'll have to cut some little wires on the blades first, to make it work.
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The train station on "Valle Edén" is located a few kilometers from the city of Tacuarembó, entering by Route 26. It´s an old station that keeps the water tank, used to carry water for steam trains.
The so-called "Pozo Hondo" is a rock formation located in the Eden Valley in the department of Tacuar...
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South America makes up the southern half of the Americas and a large part of Latin America. It's home to the world's longest mountain range, biggest waterfall and largest river -- even these mammoths pale in comparison to the stunning variety of life forms thriving in the rainforest.
To the northwest, off the coast of Ecuador, lie the Galapagos Islands, which are unique for hosting species not found anywhere else on earth. These were the subject of study for Charles Darwin in his theory of evolution, which he himself said will require proof in every single case.
The main languages in South America are Spanish and Portugese, which basically tells you which European countries colonized the place. The South American wars of independence took place over two decades in the early 19th century, led by Simon Bolivar of Venezuela and Jose san Martin of Argentina.
Following liberation from Portugal and Spain, South America took off into its own development, capitalizing on the rich deposits of oil, gold, copper, silver and tango musicians.
Brazil is the largest country in South America and home to one of the world's best parties, Carnaval. Have you heard of samba music? How about bossa nova? Maybe dancing for three days straight?
I can't say enough good things about South America. All the world's continents have amazing secrets and treasures laying in wait for your discovery, but in South America... just have a look at our pictures while you're waiting for online confirmation of your plane tickets to hit your inbox.
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CATEGORIES Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Casting, Warner Brothers, Fandom, Family Films, Harry Potter, Comic/Superhero/Geek, Remakes and Sequels, Cinematical2008 should be a very big year for Jim Broadbent. In May, we'll see the Oscar-winning actor appear alongside Harrison Ford in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (as Indy's academic colleague). Then, later in the year, we'll see him in another giant franchise. According to Dark Horizons, Broadbent has definitely been cast in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince as the new (formerly retired) potions teacher Horace Slughorn (hmm, from crystal skulls to crystallized pineapple -- next up: a Crystal Gayle biopic?). As one of today's finest English actors, it's hard to believe he hasn't already appeared in the series, which is known for its casting of the best of the Brits. I guess it just took the perfect role to come around for him to finally be considered. Sure, Jette had suggested Simon Callow for the role, but I think Broadbent will do a much finer job. Plus, we already know from Topsy-Turvy and Moulin Rouge! that he looks great with a big mustache.
I must remind that Half-Blood Prince is the first Potter book that I didn't read, and so I'm not too familiar with Slughorn, aside from what I've read and seen. The character returns to his position at Hogwarts, at the suggestion of Dumbledore, after many years of retirement, because he's to be a valuable asset in the battle against the Death Eaters. With Snape now moved to the job of teaching Defense Against the Dark Arts, Slughorn takes over the potions class he had taught for near-half a century. He also re-starts the Slug Club, an exclusive extra-curricular society made up of celebrated or favored Hogwarts students, including Harry, of course. Compared to J.K. Rowling's description of Slughorn, as well as Mary GrandPré's illustration of him, Broadbent may be too tall and not quite fat enough. But rest assured the actor will be perfect in his "tweedy" costumes and aged makeup. And hopefully the fans think so, since Broadbent will likely be required to return in the role for Deathly Hallows.


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For centuries, Dutch creativity has inspired others. Dutch design is often described out-of-the-box and adhering to the 'less is more' principle. The Simcoe WaveDeck at Toronto's water front is a whimsical timber boardwalk, inspired by the shorelines of Ontario's Great Lakes.
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Spring is the best time to celebrate the rock solid friendship between the Netherlands and Canada. We have put together the Spring 2014 edition of our annual Touch of Dutch calendar of events. Follow the links to download the full listings in PDF.
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Chris is finally back from the Himalayan Workshop, a trek that turned into more of an adventure than planned.
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This is what's known as a strawman argument; using one highly contentious proposition as proof of another. Your whole argument rests on the premise outlined in your first sentence: "If you take the Holy Bible as the inerrant and eternal word of God and read it literally". Many people, myself included, regard the bible as nothing more than a bunch of fairy stories made up to scare the ignorant. The bible is nothing more than a work of complete fiction, albeit an extremely successful one.
Carbon dating of fossils is routine. And carbon dating shows that fossils recovered are orders of magnitudes older than 7000 years - unless, that is, you think carbon dating is fake science. Carbon dating has shown fossils to be as old as 3.4 billion years, and as young as 10,000 years [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fossil]. Even allowing for some discrepancy in the carbon dating process, that's a rather large period over which to have had a flood. Scientists and critical thinkers discounted the notion that all fossils came from the flood many years ago. Da Vinci questioned it, 350 years before Darwin published Origin of Species. In fact, there's hardly a credible scientist around who believes there ever was a global flood of the kind described in the bible. It's nonsense.


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Designing for Attentionby Christopher Butler | August, 2010
I'm not a fly. I'm just putting that out there. Not that there'd be anything wrong with it if I was. I mean, I'd be able to see across an almost complete 360 degrees! Sure, I'd have massive, grotesque, compound mirror-ball eyes, and sure, I'd probably get picked up by G-men and spend the rest of my days in a government lab, but I'd be able to focus on more than one thing at a time! Actually, I'd be the ideal web user. I could read an article while simultaneously reading all the other information on the page. I could divide my attention ten ways if I wanted. That'd be nice. But I'm not a fly, website designers, I'm a human! I only have two eyes, ok? I can only focus on one thing at a time. And you know what, I'm ok with that. I really am. I'm glad I can walk down the street without having to worry about scaring innocent children. So I just want to clear that up. I'm not a fly. I'm not even a "fly-person." I'm just a person. So, here's my question: Why are most web pages designed for fly-people?
Designers, seriously, let's make today the last day we create pages for fly-people. Instead of continuing to create confused, unclear and unfocused pages—pages that include more information than is necessary and in a way that undercuts their core purpose—let's adopt a new standard, following a very simple rubric: enabling attention. Most of the ways in which we go about getting attention ensure that we will fail at keeping it. See, we've been adept at stealing the attention of viewers (ultimately from ourselves, mind you)—that eye-catching graphic, the moving advertisement, the blinking text, the many, many links to click—but we're now learning that stolen attention never stays long. Lasting attention must be earned, and in order to earn attention, we must first respect it.
In designing for attention, there are two particular issues that we need to be concerned with: the "readability" of our pages, and the distance we expect web users to cross to reach information. Let's get into it...
Rick: Excellent! Thanks for getting a very nice comment string going. Keep in touch!
Thank you for providing the B2B context to the discussion. Perhaps that context is assumed based on your company's client base, so I apologize if I missed that. In that context, I don't think that I have a single counterpoint!
Rick: Glad to hear that. I'm all for a fiery debate, but just want to make sure that the person I'm speaking with is in to it, too.
What I meant when I said that interruption is the more costly result is that, for the kinds of clients we serve—typically B2B—applying the mass-media design paradigm to their sites costs them the attention of their users, which tends to result in the failure of their sites to generate the qualified leads they should. For a mass-media site, distraction isn't costly. Most of their revenue comes from ad impressions and pageviews, so distraction that ups the pages per session results in the opposite: more money. This disconnect backs up the points you made throughout your comment—that design should depend upon the context.
As for user preference, you're absolutely right. Again, what a user of a mass-media site prefers for their experience is probably going to be very different than what they might prefer in a different context. These persona pivots happen all the time. Think about it: the person who a B2B marketing site is trying to speak to is also the same person who clicks around on the New York Times website. But what that person wants and expects out of those two experiences are very different. On the B2B site, they are probably looking to make a decision on behalf of their business, assuming clarity and efficiency. Distraction is not going to make them feel confident in their ability to resolve whatever task they're involved with. On the other hand, in browsing a news site, they might be quite content to click aimlessly for a while until something of interest is found. Very different personas, but the same person.
As you point out, the "wide net" approach of mass-media sites does crosscut the needs of a massively diverse population, quite appropriately. But this, and the article from the month before—Simple Design is Good Design—are about how the methods of mass-media sites don't apply very well to business/marketing sites.
Thanks for following up and keeping the conversation going!
You did not come off to strongly! This is an interesting discussion and one that will not be solved here or anywhere else for a long time!
Question: In your reply to my comment you stated that interruption "is the more costly result". I understand where the purist view of "content is king" could follow this logic path. I propose, however, that this assumption comes from an internal, content creator's perspective on what is being delivered. Ultimately is not the consumption of the content and the method thereof inextricably linked to the reader's preference?
Newspaper design has not endured because of sheep mentality. I am not saying that newspaper design should be the accepted paradigm for web content delivery. I am saying that newspaper design does, in fact, represent a proven, highly usable design standard. The usability of the traditional newspaper design accommodates a wide variety of 'users' and the needs of multiple user groups based on a wide array of consumption factors.
For example, users with 5 minutes can scan the folded front page and get a synopsis of the major stories of the day. Advertisers have standardized ad units that provide predictable costs across a variety of editorial sections.
Enough extolling the virtues of newspaper design. Besides not being the point,it does have downsides too, of course. nnThe primary point is that template design is truly dependent on the context of the content being presented. I don't really see the value in presenting these types of narratives without the caveat that the context and user base is more important than the design theory being presented.
The secondary point is that although the "schizophrenic" design approach may present a risk of usurping the reader's attention, it also crosscuts the needs of a variety of users by providing options for users to consume content in the manner of their choosing.
Addendum: To all of the folks lamenting our culture's massive loss in attention span, I propose that while it may be becoming shorter, it is not a new phenomenon. The journalistic style of writing (key important facts first, in-depth cover later) evolved to accommodate those with little time and short attention spans.
Jay: I like that term, "digital explorers." I'd put myself in that group. As for your point about @Rick Lee's comment, you're probably right. I hope I didn't come off too strongly in my reply.
Samantha: Glad to hear it!
Mathew: I'm glad you agree. "Smoke screens" is a nice way of putting it, too. Thanks for reading, commenting, and sharing this on Twitter!
"...choosing the most appropriate call to action for a page's content is important to ensuring that a reader will actually take action, rather than grow confused and abandon the page."
Absolutely right! We try to educate our clients the difference between valuable content and "smoke screens". There always should be a clear and concise message. Your article touches on those fundamentals. Thanks for sharing!
Fantastic article. Am always looking for good stuff on fundamentals of design for the web and this hit the spot big time!
Really exciting reading--there's so much in this piece (and the last one) for designers, developers, and other digital exploreres to unpack and think about.
First of all, I completely sympathize with your lament about reading. Keeping up with all the back and forth about books and e-books, readers, etc. is almost impossible but I've been wondering at the irony of all this written stuff about how nobody reads (who's reading it, then) and also at the possibility that given how busy webpages are and how unoptimal computer screens are for reading, its no wonder that people end up reading less.
The template issue is spot-on. I'm glad that the newspaper-webpage connection came up in the comments, and I agree with you in your reply to @Rick Lee, though I wonder if he meant acceptable to readers when he said "usable." But I think the point is that acceptable isn't good enough.
JS: Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it. And thanks for noticing the imagery, too.
Fiona: Envy! That's intense ;-) You know, I just finished a great book by Alain de Botton called Status Anxiety. In it, he says that we don't envy the Queen of England, we envy our neighbor. In other words, we don't envy what we perceive is out of our reach, but that which we believe we could actually have. So, from Botton's point of view, he'd say that your envy indicates that you could have written this yourself. Anyway, I'm glad you found it helpful and definitely pass it on to your clients.
One other thing about the iPhone: I don't have one, and I'm starting to feel a bit behind the times the more I hear that people read content like this using them. I'm amazed at how quickly these devices are becoming the norm.
Skeptical: Just yesterday, we had a workshop (we call them "enrichment sessions") on information architecture, and one of the threads of conversation was what the job of an individual page really is. We concluded that the first priority of a page—particularly a detail page, as apposed to a section landing page or a website's home page—was to inform the reader about one particular thing, and then to compel them to act based upon that information. If a user searches for something peripheral to a page's main focus but still lands on that page, it's not necessarily that page's job to refocus the searcher, is it? Ideally, the page's focus will match the searcher's intent. If it doesn't, perhaps the best action that searcher could take would be to bounce. In other words, I think we get so focused on retaining visitors that we try to make pages be all things to all people. More tightly positioning a page will definitely result in less traffic, but it should also result in the right kind of traffic.
Sean: That book sounds interesting. I have a post-it note stuck to the wall next to my desk that reads, "Multitasking is diluted attention." So, I'm right there with you.
Hi, I enjoyed this article.
I do agree with simplifying things in general and think that @skeptical should read a book I just finished called The Overflowing Brain: Information Overload and the Limits of Working Memory, by Torkel Klingberg. We're driving ourselves crazy with multitasking and it sounds like Skeptical thinks pages should multitask too. Pages full of information are impressive to see, but this book poses the question of whether we can really retain that information, and if not, what good is it? Focusing and simplifying the information on the page is more realistic for what our brains can actually manage.
I think I understand where you're coming from - you want good design and all, but I think this may be a bit overstated. "The narrative squeezed into a narrow column of text, surrounded and bullied by advertisements and suggestions of other things you might read instead. Sounds schizophrenic, doesn't it?"
Why schizophrenic? The page might just trying to cater to a variety of needs, right? What's wrong with offering options for people that may land on a page and not necessarily be that into what the page is specifically about? In that case it's not like you're sending mixed signals, you're just trying to catch someone who might fall off, you know? The web today is all about flexibility, so why should we go backwards now and make things so rigid?
Another month, another bout of envy! I wish I had written this because I know I'm going to relay your ideas to my clients many times from this day forward. I also read this on my iPhone but I'm not great at lots of thumb typing so I waited until I was at my desk to comment, but I have to agree with @angeline that it was a pleasure to read that way.
Great article! I'm with @sara, the imagery nails it and helps drive the points home.
Desmond: I'm glad you brought up the idea of websites being designed more like books. That's the final piece of this thought—from the article on storytelling through this one—that I want to cover in an upcoming article: that the way we do information architecture is also going to change as a result on our focus on personas, the story, simplicity and mobile devices. Glad you enjoyed the article.
Angeline: What a great comment! I think this is the first time I've heard from a reader who has said outright that they read the article on a mobile device. We do have a unique, mobile-optimized template that loads if you access our site using any WebKit device, and I'd have to agree with you—it makes reading on such a small screen much easier. As for your question, I was thinking more along the lines of text and functional components that distract users from the main purpose of web pages, but I think graphical elements could have a similar effect if they are "loud" enough. I think a good web page design (like a book's interior) should support the content, not be content in and of itself. Thanks for your enthusiastic comments!
Sara: I do all the illustrations for these articles. I haven't actually watched Mad Men (I don't have a TV or Netflix), but I assume you're comparing the "fly person" image to the intro with the silhouetted business man? My normal process is to write some, then play with imagery ideas before I finalize the written content. That way I can make lots of direct connections between the two. In case you're interested, here's the sketch I made for some of the visual elements a couple of weeks ago:
So who did the illustration of guy in this post with all the eyes? Minus the eyes its style is ala MAD MEN
I have to agree with Chris on this both the article and newspaper response. Adding about the newspaper that we have the ability manually to fold a newspaper in any which way and manipulate it so we the readers can focus wether on a huge editorial or a advertisement.
Also I read this entire article on my iPhone after clicking on it via my inbox. And I have to say it's been one of the most enjoyable things I've read just for viewability. I'm going to assume it was additionally coded for mobile devices which is wonderful! So much I can't stand to even attempt to focus on especially using my iPhone. I'm going to of course open this on my computer then bookmark it because as a newly arriving web designer I find points like these to be very important to keep a breast of and it is content we are selling via the web - wether a product or a thought - say I'm out of ink and a website makes my eyes and mind tired trying to focus on it what happens to it? Well if it's important enough I might bookmark it, only problem is if I haven't read it then when I do go back by it in my bookmarks it's going to get skipped again and again. This isn't what I want to happen to a site I build.
My frustration with trying to create my own site right now that when I finally do get it up - w/ content I don't want to redo it because people aren't getting it!
Now I have one question, please -when you are discussing distracting the reader are you talking about just text or are graphic elements included in this too? Even if they don't have any text? For example these heavy graphic loaded collage style websites that are popular, but only have short paragraphs or key phrases on them?
Thank you again for sharing this wonderful, eye enjoying article!
Great article. The "skimming eye" phenomenon really is the norm today for websites and how we read them. This isn't necessarily the fault of the website visitor, but really the way websites compete to keep a visitors attention (which ironically detracts from their attention in many ways).
As you pointed out, there really is a fine line between creating a web page containing all content and zero calls to action and a website that seems void of content and containing mostly calls to action.
With mobile becoming increasingly the way people experience the web, the "book" design I think will become more important due to the size of mobile screens and the environment in which these mobile screens will be viewed (quickly glancing at a website at a store, or while waiting for an appointment). Of course a website can have a mobile and desktop version, but I believe it is important for both versions to have the same feel for grabbing attention -- which should be about the content, not the distractions.
Moving forward, I like the idea of moving more to a "book" design while implementing creative call to action solutions.
Rick: I think there are a few key differences between how newspapers work and the comparison I drew between books and content on the web.
The first main difference that I'd want to point out is that the usability of a newspaper and of a website are going to be evaluated differently. When options on a webpage encroach upon a user's ability to focus their attention on the page's main content, it's not simply because they complicate the visual field of the page, but because they ask users to act upon them—which typically takes users away from the page. So, interruption, and typically permanent interruption, is the more costly result. That said, I do believe that the general complexity of the page is a problem, which brings me to another difference.
You say that newspapers have been considered usable for some time. Perhaps. But that's not because the pages are examples of good design. It's because we've gotten used to the vernacular of newspaper page layout, which is purely the result of economics, not design or usability. The idea there was, and has been, to load a page with as much information as possible to keep the overall bundle within a certain page limit while maintaining a sense of priority for "top" stories. Web design, in many ways, has anachronistically adopted this vernacular, which is legitimately criticized ad nauseam by web designers online.


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Michigan cider houses: Tapping apples
Like craft beer before it, cider is being reclaimed. And Michigan, with its vast acres of apple trees, is a natural home to a new generation of cider-makers. Michigan's cider industry is in its infancy but is growing rapidly. Check out these photos and click here for the related article.
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The Great Debate UK
Nine meals from anarchy
Andrew Simms is policy director and head of the climate change programme at the London-based New Economics Foundation. The opinions expressed are his own.
Nothing reveals the thin veneer of civilisation like a threat to its fuel or food supply, or the cracks in society like a major climate-related disaster. But that, increasingly, is what we face: the global peak and decline of oil production; and a global food chain in crisis due to multiple stresses including imminent, potentially irreversible global warming.
The vulnerability of our system was revealed in the year 2000 when fuel protests in the UK disrupted food supplies and left the nation just, "nine meals from anarchy." At the time, the government were able to force the restoration of fuel supplies. That was a short-term protest, but what if it's the ground itself protesting that there is no longer enough oil to go around?
The International Energy Agency (IEA) said of world oil production that there will be, "a narrowing of spare capacity to minimal levels by 2013,"making, "significant downward revisions" from the previous year. Economic and social impacts from such a market shock could be even faster, deeper and more global than any banking crisis. They could also be potentially irreversible.


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Dressed as Kiss, crowd licks it up at MTS Centre
They were made for loving band that's still hotter than hell
THE Kiss Army is mobilizing and Ricky Zimmermann is ready to march into the trenches. Again.
He's left behind $120,000 worth of Kiss memorabilia in his Winnipeg home, decked out in a Gene Simmons wig and high-heeled boots in homage to the band's frontman. The makeup is spot-on and ornate scales rise from his boots to his thighs.
"I've told my family that when I die, before I get cremated you have to put me in my costume and burn me like this," Zimmermann said, standing in the lobby of the MTS Centre before the iconic American rock band hit the stage Thursday night.
"Dead serious," Zimmermann replied.
Hotter than hell, indeed.
But then the Kiss Army has been recruiting soldiers since 1974, when the band's first album debuted. All these years later, the troops remain fervently loyal.
So Zimmermann wasn't alone. Darren Lehman was in line with his wife, Emanuela, and three children: Dayton, 12, Tessa, 9, and Sienna, 7. All had their faces made up in classic Kiss designs, emulating original band members Simmons, Paul Stanley, Ace Frehley and Peter Criss.
It was the first time young Tessa and Sienna were to see Kiss live, but let's just say they've heard the lyrics of Detroit Rock City and Love Gun for, well, forever.
"When they were in the wombs they were listening to it," said Lehman. "We had the music on, we had the headsets on. By the time he (Dayton) was three, he knew all the words to Rock and Roll All Night."
Added Emanuela: "It's in their blood now."
For the record, the Lehmans don't just get out the Kiss makeup for concerts. "When we do this, it's not just for Halloween, but when we're bored in the house," said the machine adjuster.
In fact, the Lehmans' bathroom is pimped out in honour of the band. The overhead light is the shape of a Kiss logo. When you flush the toilet, the song Rock N' Roll Over plays.
They call their washroom "the hottest can in the land."
Darren and Emanuela were high school sweethearts from their days at Maples Collegiate. When they were married 11 years ago, Darren and the wedding party arrived at the social in Kiss face makeup.
Zimmermann can relate. Just last year, he and wife Krista renewed their wedding vows in Las Vegas at the Kiss Monster Mini Golf Course, which is adjacent to the Hotter Than Hell Wedding Chapel.
The ceremony was performed by a Kiss impersonator. They have pictures and everything.
"It was awesome," Krista said. "It was a lot of fun."
Zimmermann installs flooring and has been working so hard lately Krista didn't have the heart to get him to put on her makeup for last night's gig. It's usually a family thing, including their three children.
But then the Kiss Army has long been populated by generational regiments. Patti Kafka, a 50-something mother, was in attendance with 22-year-old son Brendan. "I've been listening to them since my 20s," Patti said. "Finally, I have enough money to go to a concert. I didn't then."
Asked if the band had become too old for rock, Kafka replied, "No, because that means I'm too old. And I'm not. If they can still keep us happy, so what?"
Indeed, there was no shortage of fans at the MTS Centre who were born around the time Kiss hits became classic rock. They don't care.
"I like old school music," said Keara Chisholm, 16. "It's wicked."
"It's the vibe," added Emma Marsden, 14. "It gets you pumped. Rebellious and all that."
Craig Henckel would agree. Dressed in his Simmons outfit (the tongue is real), he stands 6-11. His day job is painting trailers. At a gathering of Kiss fanatics, he's a star. People stop to take his picture. One fan wants him to autograph his shirt.
"If I walk down the street, I'm a nobody," Henckel said. "But if I put on 25 pounds of leather, makeup and wear high heels, women throw themselves at me. I'm not kidding. It's a blast."
What is the secret of Kiss's lasting success? Join the conversation in the comments below.
Republished from the Winnipeg Free Press print edition July 19, 2013 A4
Updated on Friday, July 19, 2013 at 7:03 AM CDT: Replaces photo, adds slideshow, adds question for discussion
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