iheni :: making the web worldwide

I presented at Techshare earlier this month focusing on universal access on mobile drawing on comparisons and lessons from desktop and looking ahead at existing and emerging technologies that help developers ensure content is accessible across devices.

Slides on SlideShare
Transcript on Easy Slideshare

I tried to answer the question “Is the mobile web enabled or disabled by [...]

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There was an interesting mix of design, development and mobile covered at Accessibility 2.0 yesterday but for me I was most interested to hear people’s comments on mobile browsing for disabled users. Below are some quick thoughts of the day. Big thanks to AbilityNet and the other speakers and the Opera Developer Network who sponsored [...]

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After an excellent couple of days at Techshare last week (where I presented on mobile accessibility – more of that later), myself and my glamorous partner in crime Bruce Lawson ran the second Standards.Next event this time covering cognition and accessibility.
Cognition is probably one of the most under researched areas of accessibility and the least [...]

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I missed Accessibility 2.0 last year as I was away at another conference but remember avidly checking Twitter as the day unfolded and with it the controversy and the light bulb moments.
So much good came out of it such as Easy YouTube, a collaboration between the flame haired love-god of accessibility Christian Heilmann  and the [...]

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After the success of the HTML5 meetup we’ve set a date for our next event: cognition and web accessibility.
We wanted to do this as it seems to be the area that we web developers know the least about, most probably because it’s the area that is least documented and understood. We are all different and [...]

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