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Archive for October 2005

BBC Homepage Browser Share Figures

Monday, 24th October 2005

An interesting post on Slashdot about browser share suggests that around 85% visits to the BBC homepage over a week in September were made by browsers identifying themselves as Internet Explorer. Firefox has a respectable 9.7% share of visits.
A couple of caveats apply, however. Firstly there are automated web crawlers out there (’bots’) that […]

Skip links: the saga continues

Wednesday, 19th October 2005

Some recent user testing of ours has suggested some ways to further improve the way we implement skip links.
Unlike many others, our recommended method of implementing skip links ensures that all keyboard users ’see’ the skip link, as it appears visually on screen when a user tabs to it, and is of course read out […]

Accessible web application for the NHS

Tuesday, 4th October 2005

Our implementation of the Incident Decision Tree went live today. It’s a tool for NHS managers and senior clinicians to follow a decision-making pathway after certain types of incidents occur in the (UK) National Health Service.

Communis were invited to transform a CD-ROM kiosk application (containing content for the secondary healthcare sector) into a database-driven content-managed […]