Whenever I update an application on my iOS or Android devices, I feel a certain nervousness about whether the learning I’ve put into the current app will go out the window. The same is true about any software: is my user interface learning going to become obsolete with this update? When it comes to major software, like moving to Windows 8, you must expect major updates. But it can be maddening to update an app you’re working with on daily […]
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WP Accessibility version 1.2.0 now available!
The new version of WP Accessibility has just been released. Updates include the inclusion of Chris Rodriguez’s a11y toolbar, as previously announced and support for a custom WordPress administrative stylesheet. The first item, the accessibility toolbar, falls into a category of accessibility I rarely pursue: the front-end accessibility widget. I’ve written (negatively) about the concept before, in my article When More is Less. Having previously opposed accessibility widgets, I wanted to talk a little about why I think including this […]
Continue reading “WP Accessibility version 1.2.0 now available!” »The case of the missing alt attribute.
Jennifer Sutton brought this interesting factoid to my attention today: the single most common HTML (HyperText Markup Language) validation error is the missing alt attribute. Of the 100 most common validation errors collected by W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Love, a missing alt attribute comes it at number one — with almost double the occurrences of the next most common error. It’s 2012, and the key mistakes in HTML seem to remain the same. Now, one can’t help but hope […]
Continue reading “The case of the missingalt attribute.” »Google and Accessibility. What’s the plan?
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 […]
Continue reading “Google and Accessibility. What’s the plan?” »We need to have a talk with marketing
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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