Posted in accessibility on Sep 3rd, 2008
In a recent article in the UK’s Guardian How CAPTCHA was foiled: Are you a man or a mouse?, CAPTCHA was reported as being “broken” and as Wordpress’s Matt Mullenweg described it “the bane of the internet”.
I couldn’t agree more. These distorted images of text designed to prevent anything but a human register for a [...]
Posted in accessibility on Sep 1st, 2008
John Slatin, a dearly loved member of the web accessibility community and former chair of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, sadly passed away earlier this year leaving behind him the University of Texas Accessibility Institute.
Sadly UT want to close the Accessibility Institute which has been a centre of excellence for research and innovation [...]
Posted in accessibility, conferences on Aug 13th, 2008
Bored with accessibility? Over AJAX, ARIA? Can’t face yet another Jaws demo for dummies? Struggling to find a challenge in checklists…
This year myself, Lisa Herrod (Scenariogirl) and Glenda Sims (Goodwitch) are hoping to present a panel on Aging, Cognition & Deafness: The Quirky Corners of Web Accessibility at SXSWi 2009 and we really need [...]
Posted in accessibility, internationalization, mobile on Aug 8th, 2008
All eyes are on the Beijing 2008 Olympics with the opening ceremony happening as we speak. For those of us not lucky enough to be there we have to rely on TV, radio and the web to find out the latest news, scores, timetables and updates.
The Beijing 2008 website is going to arguably be [...]
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 [...]
