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About Category "Accessibility"

This category is associated with items about Web accessibility, physical accessibility and Equal Access in general.

Web Accessibility Techniques workshop in Adelaide on 20 November 2008

Vision Australia is running their popular Web Accessibility Techniques workshop in Adelaide on 20 November 2008.

Audience:

web-development team leaders; corporate communications professionals; content authors; web programmers; web application developers; web designer; web contract managers

Paralympics New Zealand - One for the Rogues' Gallery

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.

Audience:

The accessibility community, disability groups, those interested in inclusion in sport.

Dilbert Goes Inaccessible

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.

Published:

Sunday, 20th April 2008

Am I Too Slow?

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).

Audience:

Web content creators, web application developers, hosting providers, web site owners.

Published:

Friday, 8th February 2008;
last updated on Friday, 15th February 2008

Reading Difficulties - Not Getting the Points

Smiffy ponders why some books are harder to read than others, makes some comparisons and is surprised at the results.

Beyond ALT Text - The Nielsen Norman report for free

Nielsen Norman Group releases its report 'Beyond ALT Text' for free.

Metadata, Meta Tags, Meta What?

Article for the GAWDS newsletter clarifying the differences between metadata and meta tags and what the two are actually for.

Published:

Tuesday, 14th August 2007;
last updated on Monday, 10th September 2007

New Version of Functional Accessibility Evaluator Released

The Disability Resources and Educational Services (DRES) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has released a new version of its online Web Accessibility Evaluation tool.

Blogging Against Disablism Day 2007

BADD 2007

Blogging Against Disablism Day is on the first of May.

Published:

Friday, 20th April 2007

Accessible Tag Clouds

A look at an example PHP programme as a means of producing an XHTML weighted list, both in the form of a 'Tag Cloud', where the information is ordered alphabetically and weight is given by visual styling and as a 'Tag Wedge' where a styled ordered list is used to convey the information in a more semantic manner.

Published:

Saturday, 31st March 2007;
last updated on Sunday, 1st April 2007