Henny Swan's blog

Mobile accessibility tip: don’t suppress pinch zoom

Henny — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:44:07 +0000

A key feature of mobile browsing is being able to zoom in to read content and out to locate content within a page. It’s an invaluable tool however I keep stumbling across sites that suppress zoom and with it one of the main things that make mobile browsing viable for everybody. Zoom can be repressed [...]

Skip links on mobile and tablets

Henny — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:16:37 +0000

Skips links are mainly useful for sighted keyboard only users on desktop and some screen reader users. While they’re a recommendation rather than a requirement of WCAG 2.0 it’s a feature that many websites built with accessibility choose to include. The value of skip links is debatable for screen reader users who have the ability [...]

Content order on touch screens

Henny — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 19:50:10 +0000

There seems to be an assumption that content order is not relevant for touch screens because you can tap and find what you’re looking for. In other words you’re not forced to browse in a linear way as you are with a keyboard on desktop or a keypad device with no directional controller. This is [...]

Mobile accessibility presentation at CSUN 2012

Henny — Mon, 05 Mar 2012 14:34:11 +0000

Last week I presented at CSUN 12 on Mobile Accessibility and Does Accessibility have to be perfect. The wonderful Joe Dolson did an amazing job capturing the panel discussion from Does Accessibility Have to be perfect and below is my mobile presentation. Mobile Accessibility (MobA11y) Links After presenting at the Accessibility Summit last year Doborah [...]

Does accessibility have to be perfect?

Henny — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 16:06:11 +0000

At CSUN next week I’ll be on a panel alongside Léonie Watson, Sarah Lewthwaite, Kath Moonan and Lisa Herrod tacking the thorny topic of does accessibility have to be perfect? (good job these ladies are fiesty). Area’s we’ll cover are: Guidelines Do web accessibility guidelines do more damage than good? Professional There is a clear [...]

An interview with Kevin Chao

Henny — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 19:41:24 +0000

Kevin Chao seems to be everywhere tweeting, commenting and contributing to lists about various products and companies ranging from Apple, NVDA, Adobe, Google and Android. He’s a student, visually impaired and lives in the USA and as he himself admits loves to ‘get under the hood’ of technologies to see how they work and how [...]