Ways Dreamwidth could be more awesome

I was just reading one of the Doctor Who tags on Latest Things (awesome feature, finding people just cause they tag).

I ended up on a journal where someone was writing in light grey on white.
I can only assume their screen settings are *very very very* different than mine. Or possibly their computer reads it out loud for them.

There are automatic accessibility checkers online. Some of the most simple just check your colors for you. Having a button after you tweak things to look pleasing to you that prompts you for accessibility checks would bring the issue to the attention of a lot more people. It would also *irritate* a lot more people, so I can see why people wouldn't want that, but I quite like being able to read things without using the zap colours button.



Also, is there a spoiler tag? Like a cut tag, but it would put in the good accessible code that gives screen readers a chance to hop over a spoiler and also makes it highlight-to-read. I always have to google for it because I never store it anywhere I can find it again later.


Would those make it more awesome? Or more annoying?

Hotels and cafes and b&bs and...

What's the things to look for when you're looking for a place to stay?
I usually stay in convention hotels where someone else has already chosen the venue. I suspect there's a new skill set involved in picking a good hotel.

I like the websites that pull reviews together from lots of places. Any that mention dirty bathrooms or dead mice I can decide to avoid.

I was looking at Glastonbury places and I think I will also put on my avoid list 'rooms named after rose quartz' and 'reiki treatments'. They're just not what I'm looking for.

I look for wifi. Hotels aren't the only place to get that though. Where else, though? College library isn't the most useful thing when it's the other side of the country...

Hotels are always better if you decide on them in advance and book and stuff. But a Quest would have to be very organised to book every night in advance.

I need to pick a couple of base camps and focus in on things to see around them. Britain is quite close together unless and until you're trying to use public transport. So far it looks like going through Bristol a few times will be necessary. Did I go to a convention in Bristol before? I might know a hotel there... yeah, Starfury:Chosen was at the Thistle Bristol. I been to a lot of Thistle hotels, there's a temptation to go to more just because I been to them. But if you look on websites there's places that are like £35 a night and ... aieee, Bristol is £99 per night, that's a bit swish, familiar is not worth +£60.

... I keep thinking I'm going to have to cross the road and maybe this isn't a good idea at all and I'll probably only get as far as one place for one day and and and...

... in the planning phase I will grandly ignore all that and keep seeing what's out there.

More trees!

I found out about another Cathedral of Trees
http://www.mkweb.co.uk/parks-trust/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=33114
It is based on Norwich Cathedral so I could go see the stone one first and then the tree one.

It is in Milton Keynes. Which would make it handy to get to.

But, it is in Milton Keynes. What is in Milton Keynes?
Collectormania was last month. The Open University is not so much for visiting.

Still: Cathedral made of trees!
As it should be.



Mum is not enthusiastic about my Quest because she doesn't like it when we go anywhere. Also because she couldn't charge to the rescue or pay for us to get out of trouble so she don't like it when her kids are out of reach. I think staying in reach is a teensy limiting.

Doctor Who 5-01 The Eleventh Hour

I just rewatched this and noticed a couple of tiny tiny things. ( Read more... )