Posted by: kmardahl on August 17th, 2008
Whether you are familiar with the animated film/series “Creature Comforts”, you can quickly grasp the concept of “Creature Discomforts”. These are short television commercials, aired in the UK, which were prepared by Aardman Animation for Leonard Cheshire Disability.
These commercials show animals, well, creatures, with disabilities, telling their story to an unseen interviewer. You can [...]
Posted by: kmardahl on August 17th, 2008
Are you interested in testing a new portal in the UK for disability related information?
A trial one-stop-shop for disability related information and advice on the web has been created by Leonard Cheshire Disability, the largest voluntary sector provider of services to disabled people in the UK. The Disability Information Portal (DIP) is set to be [...]
Posted by: CynthiaL on August 3rd, 2008
This should be an interesting series to follow. Matthew Paul Thomas will be posting updates in the coming months to his identification of 15 usability problems with free (open source) software "Why Free Software has poor usability, and how to improve it" that he posted on August 1. He plans to present an example for [...]
Read: Poor Usability in Open Source Software and How to Improve It »
Posted by: CynthiaL on August 2nd, 2008
An example of free association is finding an unexpected gem while searching the Web for something else. While searching for photos of Washington, DC, I discovered a very interesting blog about psychology, neuroscience, vintage photos, Web-based testing, and lots more. The blog is called Dr. X’s Free Associations. Dr. X is a clinical psychologist who [...]
Read: Dr. X’s Free Associations »
Hello. We are the Society for Technical Communication and this is the STC AccessAbility SIG: the Wind Beneath Your Wings.
Contact us
Society for Technical Communication
901 North Stuart Street
Suite 904
Arlington VA 22203-1822
USA
Telecom Info
Tel 703-522-4114
Fax 703-522-2075
![[Valid XHTML 1.0]](/wp-content/sig-images/w3c_xhtml10.gif "Validate XHTML 1.0"){kind=small}
![[Valid CSS!]](/wp-content/sig-images/w3c_validcssb.png "Validate CSS"){kind=small}
![[W3C Web standards]](/wp-content/sig-images/w3c_standards.gif "This site conforms to W3C Web Standards"){kind=small}
![[Cynthia Says Tested]](/wp-content/sig-images/Ctested.gif "Test Section 508 standards and WCAG guidelines for accessibility"){kind=small}
![[Passes the Lynx Validator]](/wp-content/sig-images/lynx_inspected-80x15.gif "Convert to text-only page and validate in Lynx Viewer"){kind=small}
![[GrayBit]](/wp-content/sig-images/graybit.gif "Convert full-color Web page into grayscale to test accessibility"){kind=small}
![[MySQL database]](/wp-content/sig-images/mysql_powered.gif "The database is powered by MySQL"){kind=small}
![[W3C Member]](/wp-content/sig-images/w3c_member1.gif "STC is a W3C member"){kind=small}
![[Section 508]](/wp-content/sig-images/sec508b.gif "U.S. Government Section 508 requirements"){kind=small}
![[WordPress]](http://www.stc-access.org/wp-content/themes/seabeast/images/wp-icon.png "This blog is powered by WordPress"){kind=icon}
![[pbWiki]](/wp-content/sig-images/pb_wiki-80x15.gif "A-SIG's Management Wiki powered by Peanut Butter Wiki"){kind=small}
![[STC AccessAbility SIG]](/wp-content/sig-images/stc_a-sig.gif "The STC AccessAbility SIG Web site"){kind=small}
You’re currently browsing the STC AccessAbility SIG weblog archives for “August, 2008.”
STC.org News Feed STC Forum Ouch News| « Jul |
|
Sep » |
| S | M | T | W | T | F | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 |
| 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 |
| 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 |
| 31 | ||||||
Attention: This is the end of the usable page!
The images below are preloaded standbys only.
This is helpful to those with slower Internet connections.
