Posted in accessibility, mobile on Mar 8th, 2010
BECTA, a UK government agency focusing on the use of technology throughout learning, recently invited me to contribute and article on mobile accessibility.
While demand for the mobile web is growing, mobile web content is yet to mature, with many problems of usability and accessibility that are reminiscent of desktop web content ten years ago. [...]
Posted in accessibility, inspiration, news on Jan 18th, 2010
Hot on the heels of his run away success HTML5 it is a changin’ our man in Japan, Daniel-San (@ourmaninjapan) has penned, transcribed and captioned (no less) a thoughtful rendition of Inaccessible the the tune of Nat King Cole’s Unforgettable.
Daniel-san very sweetly dedicated to this to me (thank you!) which I’d like to in turn [...]
Posted in accessibility, opera on Dec 21st, 2009
I forget that at its core the web is all about ”search” so it was humbling and eye opening to spend two days in the company of 8 silver surfers aged 60 to 80 testing Opera desktop and observing, amongst other things, how they went about carrying out searches.
It’s more or less the first skill [...]
Posted in accessibility on Nov 13th, 2009
The genius that is Mathew Smith (@smiffy) coined the term Accessibility As An Afterthought in relation to WCAG Triple-A (ok so the clever among you will spot that it’s four A’s) over Twitter this morning and I couldn’t agree with him more:
AAAA (Accessibility As An Afterthought) seems to be pretty much standard MO for Google.
Triple-A [...]
Posted in accessibility on Nov 11th, 2009
If your (X)HTML is valid and your ARIA is valid, your document is valid, so don’t worry about it. No harm, no foul.
Jared Smith, from WebAim, posted his excellent slides on the accessibility of Rich Internet Applications presented at Accessing Higher Ground Conference. In them he maintains that if your (X)HTML is valid and your [...]