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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 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 it. [...]
Posted in opera on Sep 3rd, 2009
I was asked over Twitter today “how do you get Opera on Wii”. The answer was too long to Tweet (there you see, blogging does trump Twitter sometimes) so below is a quick summary:
Go to Wii-ware.
Click Start.
Click Shopping.
Choose Wii Channel (third choice after Virtual Console and Wii-ware).
Scroll to bottom of list and click Internet Channel.
Download [...]
Posted in accessibility, opera, standards on Aug 10th, 2009
A question I’m frequently asked by developers is why keyboard access for the Flash is not fully supported across browsers. Opera, Safari, Firefox and Chrome all have problems enabling keyboard users to tab into and out of Flash content while Internet Explorer works fine.
The issue
Plugin support typically needs an API that acts as a doorway [...]
Posted in accessibility, opera, standards on Jul 29th, 2009
Myself and my colleague Navjot Pawara were interviewed by German podcast Technikwuerze. In it Nav covers Opera Unite – what it is and how you can use it and I chat about Opera’s approach to accessibility, HTML5, SVG, development and education.
Aside from a minor glitch in the middle when I seem to disappear altogether it [...]