This category is associated with items about Web accessibility, physical accessibility and Equal Access in general.
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.
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 is on the first of May.
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.
Smiffy at LinkedIn