Archive for June, 2009

Accessibility and Social Media – an overview

Thursday, June 18th, 2009
My talk at Scotweb2

My presentation at ScotWeb2 - photo courtesy of Jadu

This post explores some of the issues that I plan to discuss with attendees at tomorrow’s ScotWeb2 event in Edinburgh, regarding the current state of accessibility on Social Media sites such as Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. I hope to have some interesting feedback to post here after tomorrow, so for now here’s an overview of the subject. I’ve also thrown in a few open questions to kick-start the discussion.

[Edit: see a summary of the event on the ScotWeb2 blog]

Read the rest of my introduction to Social Media accessibility

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Event review – Accessibility breakfast @ User Vision Edinburgh, 15th June 2009

Monday, June 15th, 2009

I’ve just come back from a very interesting breakfast event at the local office of User Experience consultants User Vision. Led by accessibility consultant Mark Palmer, the session looked at issues around testing with disabled users, and presented some of the surprising results from such testing.
More about the breakfast event

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Twitter adds account verification

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Just days after my post on the risks of cybersquatting in Social Media, Twitter have annouced that they are beta-testing account verification.

According to the official statement, to “prevent identity confusion, Twitter is experimenting with a ‘Verified Account’ feature [...] working to establish authenticity with people who deal with impersonation or identity confusion on a regular basis.”

A verified account

An example of a verified Twitter account

Read more about Twitter Account Verification

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Cybersquatting 2.0 – protecting your name in Social Media

Monday, June 8th, 2009

The rise and rise of Social Networking Sites has brought about new risks to an organisation’s online brand, but whilst my last post explored Web 2.0 mistakes which organisation could make themselves, another type of risk is what others may do with your brand if you don’t get there first, through Social Media Cybersquatting. The risks of cybersquatters in a Web 2.0 world

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Social Media lessons learned the hard way

Friday, June 5th, 2009

Barely a week goes past without another news story about some hapless individual getting into trouble as a result of Social Media. Accordingly I’ve decided to keep a record of some of these tales of woe.

See the list of Social Media gaffes

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