Web Usability

Accessible Forms 1: Labels and identification

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.

Forgotten of Web Accessibility: CSUN2013 Talk

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

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?

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.

Roger Hudson: Brief Biography

Roger Hudson has an extensive background in media related companies including directorships of a successful film and video production company and a specialist educational multimedia publishing company. He has a post-graduate certificate in Internet Marketing and has provided website usability and accessibility services to many corporate and government clients including Australian Bureau of Statistics, Westpac […]

Public Workshops

Roger Hudson from Web Usability has presented many usability and accessibility workshops in Australia and overseas since 2006.

Accessibility

Accessibility testing aims to identify issues which could reduce the overall accessibility of a site and determine how well a site complies with WCAG 2.0.

Personal interest projects

Self-funded research projects into issues associated with website usability and accessibility.