A couple days ago, Roger Johansson published a complaint about the problems he’d been encountering recently with light text on dark backgrounds. It’s an interesting subject – is there a distinct usability difference between dark text on light versus light text on dark? For Roger, there’s no question – light text causes pain. If it hurts, it’s not going to happen. But how general is this kind of problem? Roger points out an interesting quote from designer Mark Boulton specifying […]
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Misunderstanding Accessible Design
I ran across an interesting article entitled CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) is Worthless, by Mike Stenhouse of Content with Style. I don’t read this blog/publication very regularly, but this particular article really caught my attention. Whenever someone is designing an accessible site, they’re pretty likely to design it exclusively using CSS for layout. Is this because CSS is an accessible technology? Hell, no! CSS is just as susceptible to inaccessibility as the next design technology. This is because it is […]
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This case arises out of Target’s policy and practice of denying the blind access to Target.com, including the goods and services offered by Target stores through Target.com. Due to Target’s failure and refusal to remove access barriers to Target.com, blind individuals have been and are being denied equal access to Target stores, as well as to the numerous goods, services and benefits offered to the public through Target.com First Amended Complaint, Article 24, National Federation of the Blind, et al […]
Continue reading “Lack of Access = Barrier to Access” »Thanks to Accessites!
Accessites.org is a site with a mission. Founded by accessible web designer Mike Cherim, the site honors the best of accessible web design. Accessites accepts submissions of sites for review and meticulously separates the best sites for awards. Since the founding of the site in late December of 2005, 179 sites have been submitted and 35 have received awards – with a backlog of only 16 pending sites. The way Accessites operates is through a panel of accessible developers who […]
Continue reading “Thanks to Accessites!” »Google Accessibility Search
Well, I’m back from my travels (more on that later), and I’d say that what seems the most interesting to me in the mountains of documents metaphorically sitting in my inbox is the introduction of Google’s Accessible Web Search. The idea is absolutely valuable, in my mind. Like other indexes of accessible web sites, it gives the impaired user the ability to search knowing that what they find will also be something that they can actually use. However, having a […]
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