Archive for September, 2009

Software Engineering and Web 2.0 Accessibility

Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

The blog has been a little quiet recently, but will certainly fire up again after next week’s Accessibility 2.0 conference in London, which I plan to live-tweet (#millionflowers) and blog about afterwards here.

Engineering Software for Accessibility

Engineering Software for Accessibility

In the meantime, here’s some useful reading courtesy of Microsft Press – Engineering Software and Accessibility. This is a free 100-page download, covering three key questions:

  • How do you plan for accessibility?
  • How do you design your software for accessibility?
  • How can you implement and test to your software to confirm it meets the accessible design?

Also worth a visit is IBM’s technical library, which has a new section on Accessibility in Web 2.0 technologies, introducing WAI-ARIA and looking at accessible Web 2.0 design principles.

Happy reading, and I hope to see some of you in London next week…

Back in business

Thursday, September 3rd, 2009

Some of you may have noticed that my blog and portfolio sites were down yesterday following an attack by hackers. I was delighted to find out today that the attack was actually on my host company, Namesco, rather than specific to me, and they have now restored all affected sites using recent backups. You can read a statement about the attack on their site.

Read more about the attack