
Blue Hat for a Blue Day
Smiffy's Twitter avatar gains a blue hat - nothing to do with Nick Heyward, everything to do with web standards and social inclusion.
This category is associated with items about Web accessibility, physical accessibility and Equal Access in general.

Smiffy's Twitter avatar gains a blue hat - nothing to do with Nick Heyward, everything to do with web standards and social inclusion.
The Twitter web application leaves much to be desired from a usability/accessibility standpoint. However, the API allows others to provide alternative interfaces, such as Accessible Twitter. But just how accessible is the actual information conveyed in Twitter messages (tweets?)
A hands-on workshop with accessibility expert, Roger Hudson, and CSS expert,Russ Weakley being run in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Brisbane.
Vision Australia is running their popular Web Accessibility Techniques workshop in Adelaide on 20 November 2008.
If any organisation should be aware of accessibility issues, a national Paralympics organisation should be. At the time of writing, the web site of Paralympics NZ is a disgrace.
A new version of dilbert.com is launched - it is not good, accessibility/usability having become worse and thus judged worthy of a mention in my Accessibility Rogues' Gallery.
This article tells how the accessibility and usability of web content may be impacted by speed issue from various causes. The article goes on to explain how speed may be measured or estimated and how the various causes may be addressed. Presented as content for the February Newsletter of the Guild of Accessible Web Designers (GAWDS).
Smiffy ponders why some books are harder to read than others, makes some comparisons and is surprised at the results.
Nielsen Norman Group releases its report 'Beyond ALT Text' for free.
Article for the GAWDS newsletter clarifying the differences between metadata and meta tags and what the two are actually for.