Headers and Images – Alt Text and the Weight Factor

April 29, 2008

I am drafting an article for the RI:Technology blog on Screen readers and Search Engines, and was reviewing a paper a colleague wrote about Search. He mentioned sIFR as a technique “to bring content to search engines”. I asked another colleague about this, as I’d always just considered sIFR as a “stylability” technique. We started [...]

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Web Accessibility and the “Curse of Knowledge”

April 14, 2008

I’m currently listening to “Made to Stick“, which introduced me to the notion of the “Curse of Knowledge”. The premise is simple: once you know something, you can’t imagine NOT knowing it. It’s terribly important to keep in mind, and a great reason why I believe in user-centered design and speaking directly to users. We [...]

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The Loss of a Legend

March 25, 2008

WAI mourns the passing of John Slatin, who was Co-Chair of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Working Group in 2005 and 2006. Through his persistence, patience, and keen insight, John contributed greatly to the field of accessibility, especially to the development of the WCAG 2.0. He will be fondly remembered and greatly missed by [...]

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More Questions than Answers (Rich Internet Application Accessibility)

January 13, 2008

Ah, the fun part of a research project: when you know just enough to be dangerous… Trying to figure out the scope for my capstone, I’ve done some reading on WAI-ARIA, which seems to focus on helping making AJAXy-applications accessible via roles and states. However, we really work more with flash and flex at work, [...]

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Capstone time

January 13, 2008

Graduation is scheduled for May 11, 2008.. now I just have to complete my capstone project and I’ll be the proud holder of a Masters of Computer Science degree. Up until last trimester, the capstone was like a thesis: the student selected a topic, found an advisor and did self-directed study. They recently changed the [...]

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Google “optimizing for mobile”

September 21, 2007

Lately I’ve been doing some reading on mobile apps. I came across a review for Cameron Moll’s Mobile Web Book on 456 Berea Street and then today I stumbled upon an article on “How to make any website a mobile site, with google. The results are pretty interesting! It’s interesting to see how the People’s [...]

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“I don’t really like images” – what not to say to a designer

August 14, 2007

Yesterday I had a meeting with some graphic and interaction designers, and we were discussing how best to code something up. There was a suggestion to place text onto the background image itself. I hedged. “Yeah, we can do that..where I’m from I don’t really like images, but it looks like we’ll be using them [...]

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Presentation layer – SWFObject – MVC

July 17, 2007

Evidently you can handle all of MVC within flex, but I am still seeing it primarily as the presentation layer — perhaps as my familiarity increases, I will be more comfortable letting it handle more. in the meantime, however, it is easier for me to see flex as a way to present data — and [...]

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RIA – Rich Internet Accessibility?

July 15, 2007

It is interesting to be getting into the RIA realm. I see the benefits on several levels (‘stickiness’ from a business perspective, general usability), but I am also very aware of the challenges. I have a background in accessibility, so that is a large concern for me even as I want to turn to using [...]

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it’s always something…

July 4, 2007

Just signed up for the following webinars: Captioning in Flash Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 11:00 A.M. PDT Adding captions to video in Flash is essential to ensure that users who are deaf or hard of hearing can access Flash video content. Adobe Flash CS3 includes a new component to make captioning easy and effective, and [...]

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