Posted in accessibility, mobile, standards on May 16th, 2008
News from cyclone hit Burma and earthquake struck China has been nothing short of shocking over the last couple of weeks. With both countries facing estimated fatalities of 200,000 and 50,000 respectively and many more injured it has been hard to fathom the devastation and it’s long term impact not least because it has been [...]
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Posted in accessibility, mobile on May 2nd, 2008
A little nugget of gold appeared in my RSS feed today. W3C is running a free four week online course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices, May 26 to June 20 2008.
This is great news as since publication of the Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) in 2006 the Mobile Web Initiative and [...]
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Posted in accessibility on Apr 28th, 2008
Last week I presented on the overlap between web and mobile accessibility at WWW 2008 in Beijing. It’s a pretty short presentation as I only had a 15 minute slot but in it I look at what are the shared barriers of access and touch on some example solutions.
Making the web accessible both for mobile [...]
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Posted in accessibility, mobile on Feb 8th, 2008
If you’re looking for guidance on making web access from a mobile devices as simple, easy and convenient as web access from a desktop devices look no further than the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) Working Group.
The group has recently published a number of really useful documents and tools giving step by step guidance [...]
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