Posted May 8th, 2008 in Accessibility, Front-end code.
Recently a link to a Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) cheat sheet came across my radar, and I was curious what sort advice is given for SEO these days. I’m not an SEO expert, but I thought a short analysis of how SEO and accessibility overlap or conflict would be useful.
Posted May 1st, 2008 in PDF / Flash.
The Open Screen Project
from Adobe will remove restrictions on use of the SWF and FLV/F4V specs, and removing the licensing fees. What could the consequences be?
Posted April 30th, 2008 in Real life.
iTunes Plus, Play, Amazon (when it gets to the UK), fine. But with DRMed content, even from a popular service like iTunes, you never know what’s around the corner. Your music could just disappear.
Posted April 20th, 2008 in Accessibility, Front-end code.
The recent (and quite significant) overhaul of Wordpress’ admin area is very good, streamlining your blogging and making previously diffiicult things quite simple. One of the new features is the ability to automatically create a gallery within a post of all the picture uploaded to that post. I wasn’t very happy with the code output for galleries, so I took it apart and tried to improve it.
Posted February 26th, 2008 in Accessibility, W3C.
Joe Clark has released the final WCAG Samurai’s errata, an update to the (almost) 9 year old Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 guidelines.
Posted February 3rd, 2008 in Browsers, Front-end code.
Layouts are becoming an issue again. The (browser) landscape is changing, as are the fashion in layouts, but not really in unison. I can understand giving a greater weight towards design aspects, and maintaining the grid, however, I find the timing curious, as these changes seem likely to be obsolete soon.
Posted December 11th, 2007 in Real life, Usability / IA.
For those who get a large volume of email, you probably know the pain of trying to balance reading, sorting, and acting on that email. After several years of battle, I’ve settled on a particular filtering method that will probably work for anyone that receives email from several internal teams, and many project lists. Do you need IA for email?
Posted December 2nd, 2007 in Accessibility, Operating Systems.
VoiceOver has undergone a major update, this article looks at the new functions, and what that means for people browsing websites. I am not looking at VoiceOver in general, just how different aspects of web pages affect the experience when using VoiceOver.
Posted November 21st, 2007 in Real life.
Predictive text is great, but a double edged sword. I’ve taught it a few too many acronyms, and now they are the default. Now, the default words for some things are really annoying. Are there any others who’ve been unstuck by this, or am I the only one?
Posted November 20th, 2007 in Accessibility, Usability / IA.
This article on newspaper site accessibility dropped into my inbox, from the author hoping to get some coverage from accessibility related sites. Whilst the aim is good (testing sites to increase the awareness of accessibility), I wouldn’t be happy with the recommendations.