I'm Dafydd Vaughan
I’m a web developer based in London, England & Cardiff, South Wales. I run my own web design agency and I'm a developer for GovUK at the Government Digital Service.
I have a masters degree in Computer Science, have over 10 years experience in web development and have a keen interest in website legal, accessibility and standards compliance.
@paul_clarke that's a very good question - hence the need for a source. I've got no idea what it's about.
This deserves a "citation needed" sticker: http://t.co/GMMpyIrc. Please provide sources before asking people to sign a petition.
Cookies on the beta
The use of cookies on websites has become an increasingly hot topic over the past few months. A new EU law – specifically The Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) (Amendment) Regulations 2011 (PECR) – requires that websites ask for consent before setting cookies that aren’t “strictly necessary” for the operation of the website. We’ve [...]
12 January 2012
Helping to build a single domain for government
Just under two and a half years ago I joined CF Labs – a new team based within Consumer Focus with a remit to build useful online tools and make data more useful and accessible. Over that time, we’ve worked to make product recall information more useful and helped to make it easier to reduce [...]
5 September 2011
An update on the EU cookie law
“The law was meant to protect the privacy of people using the Internet. To accomplish this, the EU made over 90% of websites illegal” - Oliver Emberton, silktide. Back in May I wrote about the new EU law on cookies that came into effect this year and will be enforced from May 2012. On Monday, [...]
27 July 2011