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, 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, standards on May 16th, 2008
News from cyclone hit Burma and earthquake struck China has been nothing short of shocking over the last couple of weeks. With both countries facing estimated fatalities of 200,000 and 50,000 respectively and many more injured it has been hard to fathom the devastation and it’s long term impact not least because it has been [...]
Posted in accessibility, mobile, standards on Apr 30th, 2008
The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) have just announced that WCAG 2.0 is to go into Candidate Recommendation.
This is the final stage before WCAG 2.0 formally takes over from WCAG 1.0 and means two things:
1. Feedback from the community received by the WCAG Working Group has been reviewed and a broad consensus on the technical [...]
