Thursday, 18th August 2005
We are now fairly certain that we have the perfect skip link implementation, after much discussion and testing. There are several problems that may be found in skip link implementations.
The skip links themselves
Most problems here derive from the fact that many designers like to hide their skip links. Problematic implementations of this include:
Hidden too well. […]
Friday, 12th August 2005
The profile of accessibility barriers for older users is getting raised at the moment, with revisions to W3C WAI documents to mention aging specifically, and also work such as OlderWiserWired. It’s hardly rocket science, but it’s about time design was approached from a more general ‘accessibility’ point of view, challenging the depressingly popular misconception that […]
Thursday, 4th August 2005
Good news for all you who, like us, have been tearing their hair out trying to get variously flaky assistive technologies to recognise basic semantic mark-up. And don’t get us started on Flash. Lets hope that Gez and co manage to prod some serious accessible-technology-vendor-buttock and get some standards recognised.
Good luck, guys.
Wednesday, 3rd August 2005
Youch. Well, a week of concussion meant that Liam missed last Friday’s WAI Education and Outreach (EO) group meeting, but he’s now back at his desk, if a little bruised. Mountainboarding has a longer learning curve than he expected. He’s currently working as part of the WAI EO ‘Before and After Design’ task force to […]