Wheeling in Second Life

Judith, who has cerebral palsy, has been using computers and the web for many years. Recently she was telling me about how much she was enjoying Second Life and so I asked her if she would mind showing me it. In the video, Judith talks about using Second Life and a club called “Wheelies”, which […]

Disabilities and technologies (2005)

How many people have disabilities? And, what sort of technologies do people with disabilities use to access the Web? Some answers to these questions.

Accessible Data Tables (2005)

Improving the effective accessibility of data tables and preliminary results from the data table markup tests.

Table Test Page

Over the years, there has been considerable discussion about what is the most accessible way to present tabular information in data tables. Roger Hudson and Russ Weakley have been studying how people who rely on screen readers use a range of data tables. These observations confirm the need to make data tables as simple as […]

PDFs and Accessibility (2004)

The widespread use of Portable Document Format material on many sites continues to cause problems for some web users…

Flash and Accessibility (2003)

Flash can both enhance and diminish the accessibility of a site …

Home Stayers And Trench Diggers (2002)

Seminar paper outlining some observations on the website search behaviour of children.

Usability: A Key Issue for kids’ sites (2000)

Paper published in the Logistics Kids Market Research Journal.

Internet Advertising and the Law (1999)

The Internet is a new marketing frontier where the rules and regulations are rapidly evolving.

Hyperlinks, Frames and Intellectual Property (1998)

How the use of hyperlinks and frames to present material from another website may infringe the rights of the originating site.