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Posted in Accessibility, Mobile on Aug 18th, 2011
I tweeted yesterday about the Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards (#vsa2011), a competition to get developers, designers and users together to come up with an idea for an application that can help older and disabled users: The Vodafone Foundation Smart Accessibility Awards is a new contest to promote the development of IT applications designed to [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Mobile on Jun 15th, 2011
Sounds obvious doesn’t it, keeping content consistent, but the devil is in the detail. When it comes to writing alt text teams rarely pool their work, let alone have a considered approach to what is appropriate alternative text across websites and mobile. Screen reader users rely on ALT text to understand content and functionality. On desktop this [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Mobile on May 31st, 2011
I’m not a huge fan of skip links as a solution for screen reader users on desktop but agree wholeheartedly that visible ones are extremely helpful for sighted keyboard only users who, unlike screen reader users, are forced to tab through content in a linear fashion. The real value being that they are visible – which [...]