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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 Aug 3rd, 2011
I’ve been playing around with ways of expanding abbreviated text on mobile using both <abbr> and <span> specifically to see how well supported voice output is. I ran a few mobile browsers and voice output software over a test case for abbr and span listing abbreviated days of the week using <abbr>, <span> and as is [...]
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 [...]