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Posted in accessibility on Jun 30th, 2008
Over on the RNIB Web Access Centre blog I’ve just posted about Why PDFs suck! because really, they do.
PDFs get a rough press when it comes to accessibility and understandably so as most PDFs on the web today are not accessible. I thought I’d turn the spotlight on the much maligned thorn in many a [...]
Posted in accessibility on Jun 17th, 2008
Together with the lovely people over at the Web Accessibility Tools Consortium, Steve Faulkner and Jun, and The Paciello Group we’ve been busy creating the RNIB Surf Right Toolbar.
The Surf Right Toolbar is designed to make adjusting certain options within Internet Explorer quicker and easier, using either the mouse or keyboard. It’s a [...]
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 on May 2nd, 2008
A little nugget of gold appeared in my RSS feed today. W3C is running a free four week online course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices, May 26 to June 20 2008.
This is great news as since publication of the Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) in 2006 the Mobile Web Initiative and [...]
Posted in accessibility, internationalization on Apr 30th, 2008
The Colour Contrast Analyser for Mac is now available in Chinese, download a copy from The Paciello Group. The work these guys are doing internationalising their tools is fantastic. Well done Steve, Jedi and the team.
