Category Archives: Articles
Automated kiosks and accessibility
Brief overview of accessibility issues and regulations relating to automated public kiosks.
Social Inclusion, Social Responsibility and Goldilocks
Transcript of the GAAD talk. The disabled and their carers are among the most marginalised in our community. It is time we moved beyond the blaming of others such as the government and industry, to a greater acceptance that we all need to place a higher priority on accessibility.
Accessible Forms 2: Required Fields and Extra Information
accessibility, WCAG 2.0, Web
The second in this series of articles about improving the accessibility of web page forms looks at different ways to mark-up required (mandatory) form fields and provide additional information that maybe necessary to understand or correctly complete a form.
Accessible Forms 1: Labels and identification
accessibility, WCAG 2.0, Web
The first in a new series of articles about improving the accessibility of forms looks at ways to identify and group form controls, including the use of implicit and explicit labels, title attributes, and fieldset and legend.
Accessibility: More than WCAG compliance – CSUN2013 Talk
accessibility, presentation, WCAG 2.0, Web
Web content accessibility is being increasingly viewed solely from the perspective of how well a site complies with WCAG 2 rather than how well people with disabilities can access the content. Slides and speakers notes from my CSUN 2013 talk that considered this issue and outlined a new Accessibility Priority Tool to help organisations identify and correct likely access barriers to their web content.
Forgotten of Web Accessibility: CSUN2013 Talk
accessibility, presentation, WCAG 2.0, Web
Slides and speakers note from my CSUN 2013 presentation about some of the forgotten of web accessibility: the elderly, novice web users and people with cognitive and reading difficulties.
CSUN 2013 Presentations
I will be giving two presentations at the CSUN 2013 International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference starting next week. Both take a real-world look at what web accessibility means, how it is measured, and some of the people who may get overlooked in the process.
Accessibility Priority Tool
accessibility, WCAG 2.0, Web
The Accessibility Priority Tool is a mechanism for helping organisations identify and correct issues that could reduce the ability of people to access web content. This Excel tool takes account of the needs and target audience of a site, as well as a professional assessment of the likely impact of potential accessibility barriers.
Headings: Who needs ’em?
accessibility, usability, WCAG 2.0, Web
This is a story about web page headings and sub-headings: A story that tries to look beyond the absurd distinctions that are sometimes made about the usability and accessibility of web content, to ask who needs headings and why.
Changes in web-user behaviour
By comparing two projects, five years apart, the article considers the growing influence of Facebook and Google. It looks at how this maybe be changing the behaviour of some web users, and the potential impact it could have on the accessibility of websites.