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Posted in mobile on Jun 5th, 2008
Having cried wolf a few times over the last few years (WAP anyone?) mobile browsing is now packing a serious punch and nowhere more so than in developing countries.
Prohibitive costs for hardware and software, lack of infrastructure, phone lines and support for internet access has meant that surfing the web from desktops in poorer regions [...]
Posted in accessibility, mobile on May 2nd, 2008
A little nugget of gold appeared in my RSS feed today. W3C is running a free four week online course: An Introduction to W3C’s Mobile Web Best Practices, May 26 to June 20 2008.
This is great news as since publication of the Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) in 2006 the Mobile Web Initiative and [...]
Posted in accessibility on Mar 21st, 2008
I’ve not tested this yet but TV Raman and Charles Chen (creator of FireVox) have added ARIA support to Google Reader. Instructions on how to use it can be found in Raman’s post about it on Google blogspot. ARIA support in Google Reader has been tested in the following environments:
Fire Vox The self-voicing extension to [...]
Posted in standards on Mar 21st, 2008
Credits: spotted in Yabin’s photostream on Flickr by Eric Meyer.
Posted in accessibility, mobile on Feb 8th, 2008
If you’re looking for guidance on making web access from a mobile devices as simple, easy and convenient as web access from a desktop devices look no further than the W3C Mobile Web Best Practices (MWBP) Working Group.
The group has recently published a number of really useful documents and tools giving step by step guidance [...]
