Posted in accessibility, internationalization, mobile, standards, stuff4sam on Jul 4th, 2008
I’m really excited and honoured to say that together with Lisa Herrod, aka Scenariogirl , I will be taking over leadership of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) International Liaison Group (ILG).
We’ll be stepping up to the table to replace Glenda Sims aka Glenda the Goodwitch and Steph Troeth (a tough double act to follow if [...]
Posted in accessibility on Jun 30th, 2008
Over on the RNIB Web Access Centre blog I’ve just posted about Why PDFs suck! because really, they do.
PDFs get a rough press when it comes to accessibility and understandably so as most PDFs on the web today are not accessible. I thought I’d turn the spotlight on the much maligned thorn in many a [...]
Posted in accessibility, standards, virtual worlds on Jun 27th, 2008
ScriptEnabled is the brainchild of Chris Heilmann from Yahoo!. Scheduled to happen in September (date as yet unconfirmed) it’s billed as the first ever "accessibility hack day":
The aim of the conference is to break down the barriers between disabled users and the social web as much as giving ethical hackers real world issues to solve. [...]
Posted in accessibility on Jun 25th, 2008
We’ve been commissioning banner ads to place on other websites recently so I thought I’d share some of the guidelines we work to in-house when commissioning accessible advertising. It’s hard enough to know at the best of times how to deal with content on your site but when it comes to advertising, especially third party, [...]
Posted in accessibility on Jun 17th, 2008
Together with the lovely people over at the Web Accessibility Tools Consortium, Steve Faulkner and Jun, and The Paciello Group we’ve been busy creating the RNIB Surf Right Toolbar.
The Surf Right Toolbar is designed to make adjusting certain options within Internet Explorer quicker and easier, using either the mouse or keyboard. It’s a [...]
