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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 [...]
Posted in Accessibility on Sep 11th, 2009
Hot on the heels of the launch of Opera 10 we have a sneak preview of Opera 10.10 not only complete with Unite but also with added Longdesc support. There has always been a bit of a longdesc lottery on the web with the duel problem of developers incorrectly implementing it and browsers not supporting [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Conferences on Sep 2nd, 2009
I missed Accessibility 2.0 last year as I was away at another conference but remember avidly checking Twitter as the day unfolded and with it the controversy and the light bulb moments. So much good came out of it such as Easy YouTube, a collaboration between the flame haired love-god of accessibility Christian Heilmann and [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Conferences on Aug 19th, 2009
After the success of the HTML5 meetup we’ve set a date for our next event: cognition and web accessibility. We wanted to do this as it seems to be the area that we web developers know the least about, most probably because it’s the area that is least documented and understood. We are all different [...]
Posted in Accessibility, Standards on Jul 29th, 2009
Myself and my colleague Navjot Pawara were interviewed by German podcast Technikwuerze. In it Nav covers Opera Unite – what it is and how you can use it and I chat about Opera’s approach to accessibility, HTML5, SVG, development and education. Aside from a minor glitch in the middle when I seem to disappear altogether [...]
Posted in Accessibility on Jun 22nd, 2009
Perhaps it’s the loss of Sam that makes this all the more pertinent but when Steve Lee Tweeted about software that allows you to manipulate a computer interface I sat up and listened. I’ve tracked various developments in access tech for the severely paralysed for a while now looking at Brainfingers, the Brain Twitter Interface [...]