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Posted in accessibility, mobile on Mar 8th, 2010
BECTA, a UK government agency focusing on the use of technology throughout learning, recently invited me to contribute and article on mobile accessibility.
While demand for the mobile web is growing, mobile web content is yet to mature, with many problems of usability and accessibility that are reminiscent of desktop web content ten years ago. [...]
Posted in accessibility, conferences, mobile on Sep 23rd, 2009
There was an interesting mix of design, development and mobile covered at Accessibility 2.0 yesterday but for me I was most interested to hear people’s comments on mobile browsing for disabled users. Below are some quick thoughts of the day. Big thanks to AbilityNet and the other speakers and the Opera Developer Network who sponsored [...]
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 accessibility, mobile on Sep 17th, 2009
Good web design is as much about making your websites work across browsers as it is across devices such as mobile. On top of that you want your websites to be universally accessible to disabled users – which can seem a challenge in itself.
Earlier this year Jakob Neilson said that the the mobile web 2009 [...]
Posted in accessibility on Sep 14th, 2009
Web accessibility and cognition is a massively broad and important field yet arguably the least understood.
Over the last few months I’ve been lucky enough to get to know an amazing up and coming web designer called Jamie Knight and his trusted side-kick Lion. Jamie also happens to have autism and has a lot to say [...]