Posted in accessibility, opera on Dec 21st, 2009
I forget that at its core the web is all about ”search” so it was humbling and eye opening to spend two days in the company of 8 silver surfers aged 60 to 80 testing Opera desktop and observing, amongst other things, how they went about carrying out searches.
It’s more or less the first skill [...]
Posted in accessibility, opera on Nov 6th, 2009
The World Health Organization estimates 278 million people worldwide have some form of hearing impairment.
A Nielsen study suggests that there has been over a 300 percent increase in online video watching since 2003. Further, most watching is done during work hours. Workplace computers are often muted or have no speakers.
Several billions of videos are watched [...]
Posted in accessibility, conferences, opera on Sep 21st, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in opera on Sep 3rd, 2009
I was asked over Twitter today “how do you get Opera on Wii”. The answer was too long to Tweet (there you see, blogging does trump Twitter sometimes) so below is a quick summary:
Go to Wii-ware.
Click Start.
Click Shopping.
Choose Wii Channel (third choice after Virtual Console and Wii-ware).
Scroll to bottom of list and click Internet Channel.
Download [...]
Posted in accessibility, opera, standards on Aug 10th, 2009
A question I’m frequently asked by developers is why keyboard access for the Flash is not fully supported across browsers. Opera, Safari, Firefox and Chrome all have problems enabling keyboard users to tab into and out of Flash content while Internet Explorer works fine.
The issue
Plugin support typically needs an API that acts as a doorway [...]