accessibility

Hey iPad: speak to me!

Using VoiceOver.

VoiceOver adds tremendous accessibility features to recent iPhones and the iPad. See how a leading Australian expert explains it.

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Sometimes you see better without glasses

All my spectacles.

When my glasses broke for the second time I had some new insights.

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VoiceOver tutorial helps web designers

VoiceOver is a handy tool in a web designer’s toolbox. And it comes free on all recent Macs.

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What’s happening? A (still) new look at Web pages

This 6-year old article examines the problem of web designers taking too much for granted. Unfortunately, much of it still holds true. [First published November 2001. I have included some updates.] Web designers have been involved with the Internet for a long time, at least in Internet years. We begin to take the users for [...]

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Visionary blog

I’ve just discovered the Low Visionary blog, written by local woman, Robyn Hunt (and using WordPress). Robyn writes about the blog: Twenty or thirty years ago when disabled people talked about accessibility we meant access to buildings and the built environment. …Today it includes …the Internet, and all the technologies that relate to it. …to [...]

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The Clayton’s Web

Once you understand the Visitor, it’s easy to notice that some visitors will see what’s on your Web site, while many will see and interpret only the coding behind it. And that’s why the coding behind a website is so important. [First published July 2006. Some details may be a bit dated.] What’s the single [...]

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