Severn Valley Online Newsletter

The Severn Valley Railway Association publishes monthly a digest of online news items taken from various sources including the SVRA unofficial forum and websites of groups associated with the Railway.

This is now available to all via the SVRA page on the Bridgnorth Station website http://www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk/7.html.

Patrick

 

Next edition now available on the Bridgnorth Station website http://www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk/7.html.

Patrick

 

January 2011 issue now available on the Bridgnorth Station website http://www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk/7.html

 

http://www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk/resources/2_11_Web_Round_up.pdf has the February edition

Patrick

 

March edition here http://www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk/7.html

Patrick

 

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Patrick

 

Most informative!

 

Thanks for that

April edition online at http://www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk/7.html

Patrick

 

May edition online at http://www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk/7.html

Patrick

 

June edition online at http://www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk/7.html

Patrick

 

I like looking at these - a good way of keeping up with news you might miss.

Ever thought of linking in a photography section to it? There are a few of us (myself and Lewis Maddox at least) that put shots online on the railway fairly regularly.

 

Thanks all - glad you find it useful.

I have, the difficulty is tracking down all those that do it (and there are a lot!) and relating them to the various items, without just giving a list of links to sites of which some are not very navigable. I'm open to suggestions: I'm away for a week - perhaps you could give some thought as to how it might best be done and email me patrick.hearn[spamtrapAT]virgindotnet, or PM me here or on the SVR forum? All contributions gratefully received

Patrick

 

Martin, let me have the link and I will include it in future round ups

Thanks

Patrick

 

July edition here http://www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk/7.html. A couple of post-press changes:

The Severn-Forth Express Saturday July 9th is cancelled

Preserved diesels http://presnews.wordpress.com/ has images of 50 044 travelling light engine from CF to KR, and not the movement stated

Hope you all like it!

Patrick

 

The electronic version of the August web round up is now online at the Bridgnorth station website at http://www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk/7.html and includes links to sources. It will also be published on the SVRA website at http://www.svr-association.org.uk/webroundup1.html

Neil Scott and I have included photography links.

All suggestions for future improvements would be welcome

Patrick

 

Quick recommendation for you and others publishing information on the web to help blind and visioin-impaired users - please try to avoid using 'click here' for links, and make sure that links are descriptive.

Eg

August timetable

Is much better than

Click here for August timetable

The gist being that blind users use software to read web pages aloud. They read links first, so will often hear 10 or more 'click here's which are more or less useless. There's loads of little techniques like this that will make your information more inclusive.

Cheers,
Simon

 

Thanks Simon

Can you point me at any more of the little techniques to which you refer?

Thanks

Patrick

 

Hi Patrick,

There's loads of good resources online, and quite a lot of technical, standards based stuff. The BBC have some great practical guidance, and there are specialist companies who provide technical support and advice.

• BBC accessibility guidance
• British Standard for website accessibility
• Abilitynet — charity providing accessibility services
• Checklist of accessibility standards

Cheers,
Simon

 

The electronic version of the September web round up is now online at the SVRA website at http://www.svr-association.org.uk/Web Round up 09_2011.pdf and includes links to sources

It will also be published on the Bridgnorth station website at http://www.bridgnorthstation.co.uk/7.html.

One update:

SVRA Railtour... A steam hauled rail tour provisionally penned in for October was mentioned in SVR News magazine number 172, page 4, and also the WMNL of May 2011. Unfortunately due to timetable planning issues the tour will not take place on this occasion. Please watch the SVRA website for further announcements.

Patrick