BBC Withdrawing Some Microformats over Accessibility Concerns
There are some web sites that, when they start to use certain certain technologies, it becomes a ‘seal of approval’. When a massive site like the BBC starts using technology X, it’s a fairly good...
View ArticleFirefox 3′s Lovely WAI-ARIA Goodness
It almost slipped my mind – I was too busy marvelling at the speed and efficiency with which Firefox 3 handle multiple open tabs compared to Firefox 2 – but with that browser’s v3 release last week...
View ArticleAdding to the chorus: Save the UT Accessibility Institute
Apologies for those who’ve already seen this posted elsewhere (lateness excuse: on holiday, no internet etc etc). It should be no surprise that it’s getting so much coverage, though – the Accessibility...
View ArticleARIA on the fast track?
As Birmingham bruiser Brucey pointed out over the weekend, the W3C are keen for web developers to start embracing WAI-ARIA techniques now. As he said: The Web Accessiiblity Initiative’s Accessible Rich...
View ArticleSo near to the finish line …
No, I’m not referring to the election (even though that’s technically correct), nor am I referring to the Accessify redesign/rebuild (which is almost as correct!), rather the Web Content Accessibility...
View ArticleWhat the accessibility world needs is Stephen Fry to get a poke in the eye
And a darned good one, at that, so that he’s temporarily unable to use the seemingly endless collection of gadgets that he is so renowned for owning. But why should I say such a mean-spirited thing?...
View ArticleInterview with Accessible Twitter creator Dennis Lembree
Accessify recently spoke to founder of Accessible Twitter Dennis Lembree, who is also behind Web Overhauls and web accessibility podcast Web Axe. We wanted to find out more about the background to...
View ArticleTeaching a Blind Person HTML?
I’m after some ideas on something here. Tomorrow I will be sitting down with a lad who’s here on work experience who is completely blind. He’s been doing some assessment of various web sites over the...
View ArticleThe blind leading the non-blind
In my previous post I mentioned that I was after a few tips about how I might approach the task of teaching HTML to a 15-year-old blind lad, Harry, who’s at my place of work on work experience. The...
View ArticleRIP Jack Pickard
Very sad news from the accessibility community. Jack Pickard, or @thepickards to his friends on Twitter, passed away this weekend. Not much that I can say personally that hasn’t already been said by...
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