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 [...]
Posted in accessibility, standards on Jun 13th, 2008
Simplifying popular content sharing websites has got Chris Heilmann on a roll. First it was Easy YouTube player and now he is working on a simple photo viewer for Flickr. This is a simple API that allows you to search for photo’s, 20 at a time, within Flickr bypassing the busyness of the main Flickr [...]
Posted in accessibility, standards on Jun 12th, 2008
Chris Heilmann, inspired by Antonia Hyde, has been working on an easy to use YouTube Player. Originally conceived as something to cut out the confusion of using YouTube for people with cognitive problems the player is proving a hit all round. It’s trimmed down, easy to use interface is exactly what is needed if you [...]
Posted in accessibility, mobile on May 20th, 2008
Opera has long been an advocate of standards based browsing and One Web. In a report published today, State of the Mobile Web: First Quarter 2008, CEO of Opera, Jon S. von Tetzchner, looks at what the current trends are in terms of what we’re browsing and what countries we are browsing from.
Having started [...]
