Posted in Thoughts, accessibility, opera on Apr 6th, 2009
I loved Opera’s April Fools last week on Face Gestures. This was a particularly funny take on Mouse Gestures that allow you to navigate within a browser using simple customised mouse moves. Face Gestures…well see for yourself below, the write up is also on Opera Labs. One pundit picked up on it and talked about [...]
Posted in Thoughts, accessibility, mobile on Mar 24th, 2009
So here’s a question that comes up every once in a while: is accessibility only about people with disabilities or is it also about older users, temporary disabilities (like a broken arm), technical restraints (older browsers, dial-up) or device restrictions (mobiles and hand-helds)? It’s well established that there is a cross over between accessibility and [...]
Posted in Thoughts, internationalization on Feb 27th, 2009
Opinions are split on whether the battle for web standards in won or not with many claiming that web standards are now no longer the vanguard but mainstream. Awareness is higher, laws exist to reinforce it and there is a good grass roots army of developers out there who will do their darnedest to built [...]
Having been tagged by Gez Lemon here are my seven things and seven people. The idea behind the meme is that you share seven facts about yourself and then pass it on to seven other people by name checking them in the post. Rules of the seven things meme Link to your original tagger(s) and [...]
Posted in Thoughts, accessibility on Jan 26th, 2009
Happy year of the Ox (牛), a year that should be one of prosperity through fortitude and hard work according to the Chinese Zodiac. Chinese New Year is a great time for getting those new years resolutions that have got derailed since the calender new year up and running. So without further ado here is [...]