Frontend United is a conference for web designers and developers, held this year in Athens. I went along to talk about JavaScript and ARIA.
May 30, 2017 | Development
In Agile, getting the team to self-organize so that they take on the work best suited to their skillset helps to keep work flowing through the team. What happens though when accessibility related work needs to be completed? Who is responsible for taking on work that they might not be familiar with or have the skillset for?
May 29, 2017 | Development
DEVit is a 360 conference, held in Thessaloniki Greece. It encompasses all aspects of web production, from infrastructure and architecture, through to design and development. I had the honour to…
May 24, 2017 | Development
GAAD: I wish I’d known… To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and inspired by Billy Gregory’s talk “Things I Wish I Knew When I Started in Digital Accessibility”, we’ve asked…
May 18, 2017 | Development
London Web Standards is an established and popular meetup for web professionals. The meetups cover a broad range of topics including design, development, UX and accessibility, and this month I…
May 16, 2017 | Development
Landmark-based navigation is a great way to signpost to screen reader users areas of content in a page such as main content, the header, navigation, search and so on. Being…
May 11, 2017 | Development
I gave a talk at the first UX in the City conference in Manchester, UK, on May 5th 2017, exploring the connection between people-first design and accessibility and inclusive design….
May 9, 2017 | Development, User Experience (UX)
We’ve been asked a lot of questions since the announcement that TPGi has joined VFO. Our friends and colleagues across the industry want to know what the news means for…
May 3, 2017 | Development
I finally managed to get to MinneWebCon after 10 years (this was its tenth anniversary), and I did it as a speaker. I presented “Selfish Accessibility” to a completely full…
May 2, 2017 | Development
NASHUA, N.H. and ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – May 1, 2017 / FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VFO™, the world’s leading assistive technology provider for the visually impaired and home of the Freedom…
May 1, 2017 | Development
I just recently got back from the American Copy Editors Society’s yearly conference, which was held in St. Petersburg, Florida. (ACES 2018 will be in Chicago, which I’m looking forward…
April 13, 2017 | Development
Back in 2012 I did some testing of ARIA alert support across browsers, screen readers and operating systems. The results were not encouraging. Fast forward to yesterday, while in a…
April 12, 2017 | Development
Many HTML elements have an accessible name. It can be derived from different sources, and browsers use an algorithm called the Accessible Name and Description Computation to figure it out.
April 11, 2017 | Development
When you first started reading about Scrum, Kanban, or one of the other Agile frameworks, you probably came across topics like user stories, sprint planning, minimum viable product, and continuous…
March 30, 2017 | Development
In my CSUN presentation this year I wanted to talk about what I think is the minimum amount of code that web designers should understand to best embed accessibility into…
March 29, 2017 | Development
What is the long-term plan for upgrading WCAG? The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) of the W3C is currently working on WCAG 2.1. A small group of members of AGWG…
March 24, 2017 | Development
For our CSUN session this year, Léonie Watson and I had a friendly debate about accessibility from the perspective of an end user and a developer. While we are both…
The London Web Standards meet-up in March 2017 had me in to present my talk “Fringe Accessibility”. As promised, I have posted my slides. If you cannot see the embed…
March 21, 2017 | Development
