Once upon a time I was writing a story in my free time with a Deaf 1 character in it (long since condemned to my draft graveyard). My background research…
February 7, 2020 | Development
It’s the time of year when many of us are spending our days pigging out on bite-sized candies and settling in for a marathon of our favorite horror films….
October 31, 2019 | Development
Earlier this summer, I was invited to give a talk at an event organized by the Ed-ICT research consortium, in Milton Keynes, UK. Ed-ICT is an international collective of researchers…
October 7, 2019 | Accessibility Strategy, Development
Most of us involved in building an accessible internet would agree that as the internet integrates into more of our lives and continues to expand in capability, WCAG should expand…
September 12, 2019 | Development
When individuals consider making video accessible, the accepted (sometimes only) considered solution is captioning. And with audio, the solution is transcripts. Yet, this approach may only partially address the needs…
July 19, 2019 | Development
I recently attended the W3C Workshop on Web Games, hosted at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA. This post is a summary of what I learnt from an accessibility perspective. It…
July 9, 2019 | Development
Things that caught my interest since Notes from the a11y underground #1: The ARIA working group is considering making it an author error to use aria-label, aria-labelledby, aria-describedby on some…
June 12, 2019 | Development
The University of Guelph recently held their 11th Annual Accessibility Conference. The theme this year was “Learn, Share, Grow”, which covered topics such as: Understanding Accessibility Barriers, Web and Document…
June 5, 2019 | Development
prefers-reduced-motion
With prefers-reduced-motion (part of CSS Media Queries Level 5’s User Preferences Media Features) it’s possible to easily suppress, or provide alternatives to, unnecessary and problematic animation effects on websites, based…
May 21, 2019 | Development
Warning: Patrick looms large in various discussions I have been meaning to start a periodic noting of meaty articles and threads related to subjects close to my technical heart. Today…
May 15, 2019 | Development
Update: 13 May 2019 At the time of publication we were not fully aware of the ramifications of discussions and further post publication discussions, in the WCAG working group, that…
May 6, 2019 | Development
This is the third in a series of posts reviewing the advice in Think like a UX Researcher, by David Travis and Philip Hodgson, from the perspective of involving people…
April 16, 2019 | Development, User Experience (UX)
This is the second in a series of posts looking at the advice provided in the excellent book Think like a UX Researcher, by David Travis and Philip Hodgson, from the…
March 28, 2019 | Development, User Experience (UX)
Earlier this year, an important new book for the field of UX was published—Think like a UX Researcher, by David Travis and Philip Hodgson. Given the quality of advice provided…
March 22, 2019 | Development, User Experience (UX)
Every year the people of TPGi make the pilgrimage to CSUN. The faces may change, the venue may change, but TPGi has been a force to reckon with at CSUN…
March 20, 2019 | Development
The HTML <abbr> element is deceptively familiar and attractive, its been around forever (1999) and thus people assume that it does what it does and does it well. Nothing much…
March 12, 2019 | Development
In 2012 I wrote: While reading Jared Smith’s excellent article WCAG Next I was drawn to the following statement “next to impossible to evaluate” in reference to the checking of…
February 25, 2019 | Development
It’s almost that time of year – the annual pilgrimage to sunny California for the CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. From March 11 – March 15 the Anaheim Marriott will be…
February 22, 2019 | Development
