1. Jason Cortes, GOER Web Programming/Developer Jcortes@goer.state.ny.us

2.  RSS and Accessibility  Updating Facebook and Twitter  Platform APIs ◦ Facebook ◦ Twitter  Questions

4.  RSS: stands for really simple syndication.  RSS was originally developed by Netscape in 1999  Over the following 4 years with help from the community, it evolved into the current standard: RSS 2.0 (released in 2002)  The Standard is maintained by Harvard, and is currently the most popular form of syndication.

5. RSS and Accessibility http://www.nysforum.org/committees/itaccessibility/ The Forum has a long history of addressing accessibility issues related to disabilities as well as "digital divide" issues but has done so in separate contexts....LOCATION OF IMAGE FILE......TITLE OF IMAGE ALSO SERVES AS THE ALT TAG......URL... RSS Tutorial http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html RSS 2.0 at Harvard Law <enclosure url="http://www.google.com/media/anything.mp3" length="78645" type="audio/mpeg" />

6.  Note the sections highlighted in the proceeding page:  “IMAGE” ELEMENT ◦ The title tag here is used in place of ALT tags generally used in HTML  “ENCLOSURE” ELEMENT ◦ For use with multimedia/animations ◦ Be sure to apply best practices for accessible users

9.  It is possible to create your own application for updating content to both services.  Any server side scripting language can help you to create RSS feeds, including both ColdFusion and PHP.

11.  There are 5 main components of the Facebook platform ◦ Facebook Markup Language (FBML) ◦ Facebook Query Language (FQL) ◦ Facebook JavaScript (FBJS) ◦ API calls ◦ Client libraries

12.  HTTP Request: GET, POST, DELETE  Oauth  API Methods ◦ Publishing ◦ The Information Stream ◦ The Follow Network ◦ Communication ◦ Member Accounts ◦ Admin ◦ Search

13.  Use of PHP Libraries can help extensively with displaying the content of your Facebook/Twitter accounts Accessibly  RSS is a universal format which should serve as the basis of aggregations  Questions…

14.  RSS 2.0: ◦ http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/rss/rss.html  Facebook: ◦ HipHop- Developers BlogDevelopers Blog ◦ Getting Started with API- Getting StartedGetting Started  Twitter: ◦ Twitter API wiki- http://apiwiki.twitter.com/http://apiwiki.twitter.com/  Twitter feed: ◦ http://twitterfeed.com/ http://twitterfeed.com/