Posted in Accessibility, Conferences, Mobile on Sep 30th, 2009
I presented at Techshare earlier this month focusing on universal access on mobile drawing on comparisons and lessons from desktop and looking ahead at existing and emerging technologies that help developers ensure content is accessible across devices. Slides on SlideShare Transcript on Easy Slideshare I tried to answer the question “Is the mobile web enabled [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in Mobile on May 20th, 2009
For all you mobile standardistas out there the W3C is running an online training course An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices, 1 June – 31 July 2009 Details, details… W3C is running an extended and improved version of its online course to introduce Web developers and designers to its Mobile Web Best Practices. [...]
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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 [...]
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