Recently I came across a site that has a less than accessible horizontal main navigation bar with drop-down menus containing links to the different pages in each section. This got me thinking once again about the use of drop-downs from an accessibility perspective.
In particular, I thought it might be useful to consider the different ways [...]
Over the years, I have reviewed the accessibility of a number of sites. This document outlines ten common accessibility issues I have encountered which could result in a site’s failure to fully comply with WCAG 2.0. The document includes links to some of the WCAG 2 advisory Sufficient Techniques provided by the W3C for addressing [...]
Several years ago, I looked at the Apple VoiceOver screen reader and found it wanting. Last week, I returned to VoiceOver and, at the risk of further inflaming the hyperbolic passion of the Apple Fan boys/girls, I must say it is amazing how much difference a few years can make.
Last Friday, Russ Weakley and I [...]
In his brightly coloured, expensive ski clothes, Elliott Price blended in perfectly with the world’s idle rich of a certain age, who took their winter holidays at Klosters in the hope of meeting a member of the nobility. Ideally it would be Prince Charles, or another member of the House of Windsor, but failing that [...]
The slides and speakers notes from my CSUN 2010 presentation: “Ten Years of Web Content Accessibility Rules: Time for a Rethink?”
Following my talk at the CSUN conference in March 2010, several people have asked me to make available the slides. They also asked if it would be possible to get a transcript since many of [...]
Now, I would not normally comment on the Logie Awards, since for me they are less interesting than the talking clock and given the choice of watching the ceremony on television or paint dry, I would pick drying paint any day. However, this year the antics of Age Journalist, Catherine Deveny, did catch my attention.
During [...]
The picnic lunch by the river at the State Rowing Championships was a welcomed distraction, particularly for Ruth and Jane, who had three hours to kill before they were to compete for the Junior Women’s Coxless Pairs title. Small talk and the various finals for the Senior events were interspersed with enthusiastic optimism tempered by [...]
The weekend of the State Rowing Championships had finally arrived. Year in, year out the program followed the same format: Heats for the Senior events on the Saturday, Junior heats Sunday morning and all the finals in the afternoon.
On the Sunday morning, Abraham Goldsmith drove Jane Thomas and his daughter Ruth out to the venue [...]
Jane Thomas and her parents, Dean and Madge, stood dumb-founded as Sky Crystal told them the Japanese company taking over the shopping centre project had other plans for their land. “There going to build a fish processing factory and cold storage plant!”
As Sky delivered her bombshell, the Merlin freezer in the Thomas deli [...]
My presentation for the 2010 CSUN Conference, “Ten Years of Web Content Accessibility Rules: Time for a Rethink?” is primarily concerned with whether or not the way we have encouraged/required the development of accessible sites in the past has been successful, and how we might improve the accessibility of the web in the future.
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