Posted in Accessibility 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 [...]
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Posted in Accessibility 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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