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 [...]
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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. [...]
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Posted in Accessibility on Sep 11th, 2009
Hot on the heels of the launch of Opera 10 we have a sneak preview of Opera 10.10 not only complete with Unite but also with added Longdesc support. There has always been a bit of a longdesc lottery on the web with the duel problem of developers incorrectly implementing it and browsers not supporting [...]
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