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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, opera, standards on Aug 10th, 2009
A question I’m frequently asked by developers is why keyboard access for the Flash is not fully supported across browsers. Opera, Safari, Firefox and Chrome all have problems enabling keyboard users to tab into and out of Flash content while Internet Explorer works fine. The issue Plugin support typically needs an API that acts as [...]
Posted in accessibility, mobile, opera on May 8th, 2009
Last week I spent some time with my boyfriend’s Mum, Patricia, who really struggles with scrolling and empty space on web pages. The two things combined conspire against her making it a real effort to get to the link she wants. She’s mostly a Facebook user which is confusing at the best of times but [...]
Posted in accessibility, mobile on May 7th, 2009
Most things have a shelf life and technology on the web is no different. Tricks and hacks that once seemed to save the day sometimes need to be retired as newer technologies or techniques get implemented. I can think of plenty of accessibility solutions that have found their way into the archives such as using [...]
Posted in accessibility, opera on Jan 22nd, 2009
I’m looking into doing some user testing of Opera with disabled and older users to try and establish what features we can enhance to help people when browsing. Having put the question out over Twitter it was interesting that most of you came back with questions around zooming. So I thought I’d list a few [...]