Posted in accessibility, news, standards on Jun 7th, 2010
The Web Standards Project (WaSP) has been busy at work hatching the InterACT curriculum, a framework for teaching standards based web design and development intended for schools, universities and business. Education is core to getting the web to pull it’s socks up and become more of an inclusive, cross browser, cross platform, cross device place. [...]
Posted in accessibility, inspiration on Mar 25th, 2010
These are the smart, sassy woman who were my collective backbone over the last year. They’ve inspired me, supported me, educated me and most importantly laughed at me. If it hadn’t been for them I would have lost perspective on the odd occasion and probably hidden under a rock, instead, they rock. In no particular order: Antonia Hyde – [...]
Posted in accessibility on Mar 23rd, 2010
The CSUN Tweetup returns for a second year thanks the organisation and sponsorship of The Paciello Group, Opera, WebAIM, Infoaxia, Adobe, Blackberry, EMC, CA and Deque Systems. Details about where, when and how to sign up are on the CSUN Tweetup website. I’ve got my hands full this year so wont be able to make [...]
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 [...]