Posted in accessibility, inspiration, news on Jan 18th, 2010
Hot on the heels of his run away success HTML5 it is a changin’ our man in Japan, Daniel-San (@ourmaninjapan) has penned, transcribed and captioned (no less) a thoughtful rendition of Inaccessible the the tune of Nat King Cole’s Unforgettable.
Daniel-san very sweetly dedicated to this to me (thank you!) which I’d like to in turn [...]
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Posted in accessibility, opera on Nov 6th, 2009
The World Health Organization estimates 278 million people worldwide have some form of hearing impairment.
A Nielsen study suggests that there has been over a 300 percent increase in online video watching since 2003. Further, most watching is done during work hours. Workplace computers are often muted or have no speakers.
Several billions of videos are watched [...]
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Posted in standards on Apr 9th, 2009
None of my home or university mates work on the web and I’m often asked “But what is it you actually do?” to which I reply “Web standards” and give as good an explanation I can normally along this lines of “Buildings have to be built to standards right? Well so do websites…”.
I normally get [...]
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Posted in accessibility, standards on Jan 20th, 2009
With a heading like that it makes it sound as if I’m going to demystify ARIA; once and for all so we can all happily skip into the virtual sunset with our accessible rich internet applications…Well sadly I’m not but the great and the good of the web development world have been coming up with [...]
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Posted in accessibility, conferences on Jan 12th, 2009
It’s taken a bit of time to get the first two out the door but you can now catch the first two videos and transcripts from Scripting Enabled:
Denise Stephens on Multiple Sclerosis: she also talks about an online community she set up called Enabled by design.
Antonia Hyde on learning difficulties: you can also check out [...]
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