There is a great article by Stuart Robertson in A List Apart this week on the use of Access Keys titled, Unlocking Hidden Navigation. What are access-keys you ask? Access …
What is meant by Captcha?
For a few months now I’ve been visiting a site called Word Spy, if you haven’t heard of it, it’s a great site by Paul McFedries which identifies recently coined …
Designing for linear Access
In a recent issue of AlertBox, Dr. Jakob Nielsen comments on differences and approaches of designing interfaces for accessibility. The key difference between user interfaces for sighted users and blind …
New book by J. Zeldman – Designing with Web Standards
Jeffrey Zeldman has published his book, Designing with Web Standards. It will be available for purchase from May 14, 2003 and is being published by New Riders Publishing. The 1st …
Flash MX and its accessibility features
Jeffrey Veen writes in a recent post on some accessibility features of Flash MX. He comments briefly on Flash and Section 508 and how accessibility is turning into a hot …
A new PDA phone for the blind
Kinny Cheng from iMobile posts a review of the new Alva MPO mobile phone/pda for the blind. Along with other products, the device offers a Braille “display” for the visually …
The Reqwireless Webviewer for any J2ME mobile phone
A look at the Reqwireless Webviewer 2.0 for any mobile Java J2ME device. The WebViewer allows you to access the Web and any website for that matter, via your Java-enabled …
The EMACSpeak screen reader available free to everyone
Jeffrey Zeldman points out the EMACSpeak screen reader which is free to the public. Along side other more expensive screen readers available such as JAWS, this Source Forge project is …
First Monday: Discrepancies in statistics of the Digital Divide
First Monday post an excellent article by Elizabeth Davison and Shelia R. Cotten titled, “Connection discrepancies: Unmasking further layers of the digital divide”. The article comments on misleading information during …
Stop Design comments on public design advantages
Douglas Bowman from Stop Design comments on “Public Design” and the interesting ways in which public comments during development is helping commercial and non-commercial websites better develop, consider and design …
Accessibility tools to help develop and view
Accessify.com lists a collection of useful Accessibility tools to help you both develop and view any site with accessibility in mind. The tools include everything from Favlets, add-ons for Dreamweaver …
An early Internet page by Tim Berners Lee on Usability, Standards and Readability
While visiting the W3C to validate a page I came across an old Style Guide mini site by Tim Berners-Lee from 1995 titled, Style Guide for online hypertext. The document …
Understanding web typography
I came across an interesting article on Font choices, accessibility and web design while visiting the new accessibility website called, MadeForAll. The article is written by Jim Byrne and he …
A list Apart: Flash MX and accessibility
A list Apart comment in a April 2002 issue on some of the accessibility concerns of Flash MX. I revisit to look more closely at accessibility in Flash. The two …
The voice & aural properties in CSS2
A comment by Paperhead in the Signal Vs. Noise blog mentioned a link to a W3School article commenting on CSS2 and the aural properties in stylesheets. The link to the …