Event review – Accessibility breakfast @ User Vision Edinburgh, 15th June 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 … Continue reading

Making WP’s Read More quicktag accessible

I only just discovered that WordPress has a built-in quicktag for identifying excerpts of posts, to be displayed on the homepage (rather than showing the entire post). For many of … Continue reading

Deaf Awareness Week and BSL video online

This week (4th – 10th May 2009) is Deaf Awareness Week. This year’s theme, “Look At Me”, aims to: improve understanding of the different types of deafness by highlighting the … Continue reading

Don’t just sit there – debate!

I love argument, I love debate. I don’t expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that’s not their job. Margaret Thatcher Debate and discussion are vital to … Continue reading

Considering users with multiple disabilities

I was interested to read, on the RNIB website, that there are an estimated 2 million people with significant sight loss in the UK, 70% of whom have other disabilities … Continue reading

ATAG – ignore it at your peril

A brief history Most web developers will have heard of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), especially since the launch of version 2 in December 2008. Perhaps less well known, … Continue reading

Mobile browsing – making websites handier

I’m desperately trying to get my organisation to realise that mobile browsing is fast becoming very popular, and that we need to design accordingly. Mobile phone penetration is immense in … Continue reading

The Queen’s new website – royally inaccessible

Following much Twittering about the new British Monarchy website (www.royal.gov.uk), with various people pointing out some of its shortcomings, I thought I’d take the opportunity to give it a good … Continue reading

WCAG 2.0 resources

In December 2008 the World Wide Web consortium (W3C) declared that version 2 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.0) had finally been made a recommendation. Stating that websites … Continue reading

Accessible Twitter

Twitter has its fair share of accessibility issues. One of the biggest is that certain functions can only be accessed with a mouse (I have personally suffered from this when … Continue reading