Zell Liew has written a great blog post on why Browser Media Queries that use EM instead of PX, REM for breakpoints is the only unit that performs consistently across …
AJAX and Accessibility
I was catching up some RSS feeds I haven’t read in ages, and I came across an interesting article on the accessibility of AJAX. The post references an example by …
Lecture on Empathy & appropriation in designing for the blind
Salvatore Fiore will be conducting a lecture with the University of York’s HCI GROUP on the 17th of October 2005 titled, Empathy and appropriation in designing for blind experience. The …
@Media 2005 in London
It looks like the hot topic currently in Sydney, London and everywhere else you can think of, has invited those pushing for accessibility, its methods and approaches, to hold an …
The Dark Side of Hyde Park
I had the most amazing experience last night with Bec, Meg, Johnny, Giri and Julie when we visited the new Sydney restaurant called The Darkside of Hyde Park. It is …
Paralysed man sends e-mail by thought
A Nature article comments on how a Paralysed man is able to send e-mail by thought The device allows the patient to control a computer or television using his mind, …
Douglas Bowman’s presentations from WE04
Douglas Bowman from Stop Design has shared his presentations from the Sydney Accessibility conference, Web Essentials 04 (WE04).
Examples of CSS3 hacks
Although hacks within CSS is a non-endorsed method by many accessibility advocates, here are some examples of filters and hacks that take advantage of CSS3. And a list of other …
Markme Flash Accessibility examples
With the recent WE04 Conference focusing on accessibility via standards compliance, such as using CSS2, and future CSS3. I thought I’d look into the other uses of accessible techniques and …
VoiceOver for OS X adds speech to the interface
Apple have released VoiceOver for Mac OS X. The next version of OS X will include the new accessible spoken interface that provides a new way, through speech, audible cues, …
Dave Shea’s presentation from WE04
I was unfortunately away from Sydney, to attend the recent WE04 Accessibility conference, at UTS last week. I soooooooo wanted to be there, especially that I was arriving from the …
Master of Interactive Multimedia
I graduated from my Master of Interactive Multimedia (MIMM) the other day alongside some postgrad and undergrad friends and peers from IML, the Faculty of IT and Science Faculty at …
Visual perception papers from Freigurg University
Some of the interesting medical papers and research of human visual perception currently being undertaken at the Dept. of Ophthalmology at the Medical school of the University of Freiburg, Germany. …
Popular colour combinations with Colorcell
An experimental website and project, Colorcell, which aims to find the most popular color combinations.
aDesigner – a Java tool for Accessibility
IBM have developed a JAVA tool called aDesigner for web designers that lets you ensure that pages pages are accessbile and usable to the visually impaired. A review of the …