Do you find usability concepts outside your work? Oh, we who work with these topics probably run into situations concerning usability and accessibility on a regular basis. Examples are everywhere as shown by the “broken” category over at Mark Hurst’s Good Experience.
But what about this ad?
Advertisement proclaiming that font size adjustment on your computer screen [...]
Archive for the “Internet Accessibility”
Everyday usability – at the dentist’s office
Posted by: kmardahl on January 4th, 2009
Help with the WebAIM WAVE Translation Project
Posted by: kmardahl on December 28th, 2008
Another great project for technical communicators is happening right now over at WebAIM. As announced recently on the WebAIM blog, they have started a translation project for WAVE, WebAIM’s web accessibility evaluation tool. After all, who says web accessibility evaluation is only necessary in English!
First stop is Spanish.
The Center for Persons with Disabilities at [...]
Calling all screen reader users for WebAIM survey
Posted by: kmardahl on December 28th, 2008
WebAIM has put together a survey of the preferences of screen reader users. Do you use a screen reader
all the time due to a disability?
part of the time due to a disability?
often, but do not have a disability that requires a screen reader?
occasionally to perform accessibility evaluation?
If you fit one of those models, why not [...]
WCAG 2.0 is official!
Posted by: kmardahl on December 11th, 2008
Yes, the long awaited version 2.0 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines was announced today! The news is being echoed all over Twitter, and our own SIG twitter account is chiming in.
Read the W3C press release for the official news. Then start following the discussions that have started and will continue in the coming days, [...]
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How inclusive is CAPTCHA?
Posted by: kmardahl on November 16th, 2008
Filtering visitors, or unwanted visitors, is a challenge to those who maintain websites. Unwanted visitors refers to those who want to post material unsuitable for children, grandparents – or even yourself! (I’m talking about spammers and their ilk.)
Unfortunately, one of the popular methods of filtering creates a barrier for other legitimate visitors. This method is [...]
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Digital Inclusion or Digital Disengagement and Social Exclusion?
Posted by: kmardahl on October 30th, 2008
Digital Inclusion: evolving accessibility and usability is the title of an interesting blog post that showed up this week. The author, Ian Crocombe, discusses what you can do to learn about the behavior of the users of public websites. As he reminds us, “when you’re trying to communicate with at risk groups, you can reduce [...]
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Stanford University’s Online Accessibility Program
Posted by: CynthiaL on October 27th, 2008
Did you know that Stanford University now has an Online Accessibility Program? They call it “SOAP” for Stanford Online Accessibility Program. I came across this today and thought you might be interested to see it: http://soap.stanford.edu/. The site offers resources and information; tips, tricks, and tutorials; a developers toolbox; and special program services for the [...]
Understanding Disabilities When Designing a Web Site
Posted by: Lisa Pappas on October 16th, 2008
In Digital Web Magazine last month, Leona Tomlinson of Agoo IT wrote a great article on understanding disabilities when designing a web site. While some of the information can be found in many places, Tomlinson distills a broad range of information in one article, making it ideal for sharing with those new to Web accessibility. [...]
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Turn Firefox into a screen reader with Fire Vox
Posted by: kmardahl on September 23rd, 2008
Turn Firefox into a screen reader with Fire Vox, suggests Roger Johansson of 456 Berea St. He talks about his experience with Fire Vox, the free open-source screen reader extension for Firefox. He has successfully used it on his Mac (after a few unsuccessful attempts), but Fire Vox can also run on Windows and Linux.
The [...]
Opera Announces Web Standards Curriculum
Posted by: kmardahl on September 3rd, 2008
As Opera puts it, “Learning Web Standards just got easier.” Indeed it has! Opera has released “a complete course to teach you standards-based web development, including HTML, CSS, design principles and background theory, and JavaScript basics”. It is called the Web Standards Curriculum.
This curriculum was released in association with the Yahoo! Developer Network and is [...]
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