At CSUN 12, I attended an interesting but somewhat disconcerting demonstration of Google’s progress on making their Google Docs suite accessible. The presentation was by Anne Taylor from the National Foundation of the Blind and Jeff Harris, the product manager for Google Docs. They clearly agreed on one core point: that Google Docs was definitely not ready for users with disabilities. So, the demonstration was more a show of the range of changes which Google has been adding to make […]
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Should Accessibility be Perfect – session notes
These are my complete, unedited notes from the “Should Accessibility Be Perfect” session at CSUN12. Any errors are my own – if you would like to correct anything (say, spelling of your name, add your name if I failed to get it, or correct a gross misunderstanding I had in attempting to rapidly summarize your statements) please do let me know! Comments in square brackets are my own comments while writing. I missed some names or don’t know enough information […]
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We need to have a talk with marketing. So, I’m sitting at CSUN 2012. It’s after the keynote, but before the first sessions of the conference – and some of the very key points of difference between the marketing and accessibility world are making themselves very clear. Most of the conferences I’ve attended in the past were marketing-oriented – and even where the subject of the conversations are similar, the overall impulse behind the issues is radically different. The simple […]
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One of the constantly hot subjects on the web is Search Engine Optimization. Search Engine Optimization is, at best, a way of managing the content and code of a web site so that it best represents what the site is trying to do. At worst, it’s a scam to trick an innocent search engine algorithm into thinking a site is relevant when it’s not. What about “black hat” SEO? Black hat SEO is closely related to unethical SEO. There’s a […]
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Somebody recently contacted me with a fundamental question: they were undertaking an accessibility audit, and didn’t know how to structure the process. They knew web accessibility well enough — but from the perspective of setting out to perform an audit, they weren’t sure where to go. As a result, I’m putting together this article to talk a little about how to structure an accessibility review, in all the practical ways — how you address coming up with a quote or […]
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