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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, mobile on Nov 4th, 2009
WebAim released their 2009 Screen Reader Survey last week, a follow up from last years Screen Reader survey. Very good reading it makes too but of particular interest are results around screen reader choice on the desktop and increased screen reader access on mobile.
For years it’s felt like screen reader users have mainly used IE [...]
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, 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, 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 the [...]