Stairs make the building inaccessible, not the wheelchair.
From the L.A. Times: A new film about a troupe of disabled performers delivers a message of empowerment. Coming soon to a theater near you, “My Dream” about a troupe of Chinese performers with disabilities. As I read the first paragraphs of the story, I assumed it was like many others that I’ve read; thatContinue reading Art and language
I am finally breaking free from blogger. 🙂 I have much work to do on the design, but will use this to get me up and rolling until I’m more familiar with WordPress and have a better idea of where I’m going with all of this…
It’s been an emotional two days in the world of accessibility. I’ve been reading reactions to the judge’s ruling that Target should stand trial and I looked at the site this morning – the one that includes “several improvements” that were made in reaction to the suit. I keep expecting someone to say, “Just kidding!Continue reading Rulings and olympics and online media captioning, oh my!
universally accessible play areaOriginally uploaded by anneke boudreau We recently traveled to the midwest to visit family. Since we were traveling with a 2 year old, we stopped at as many playgrounds as time would allow. Two of them were accessible. The photos that I took of the play areas didn’t turn out, but theyContinue reading universally accessible play area
clipped from www.456bereastreet.com Overall the examples keep the promise the book makes in that they are creative, standards compliant and up-to-date, but there is just a little bit too much inaccessible image replacement going on for my taste. Not a huge problem, but I would have liked to see at least one example of imageContinue reading Add to my to-do list
One of the coolest things about academia is free access to Lexis-Nexis. Each week I search for “accessibility” and never tire at the interesting things I stumble upon. A couple weeks ago, it was an article in Game Developer magazine that ends: It’s important to keep in mind that game accessibility isn’t strictly about contributingContinue reading captions
My husband and I have been role playing – heh. He’s an executive at a manufacturing company and I’m a universal design/accessibility advocate. We have mock conversations where I try a new sales pitch and he tells me why it won’t work. Yesterday, I thought I had the perfect pitch – he wasn’t shooting itContinue reading Ten-second test
In 1996 there were over 40 sets of web accessibility guidelines that we attempted to coalesce into a single document. One of the sets focused on increasing the size of active elements to make easier targets for people with dexterity issues. 10 years later, iPhone users want larger targets – finally a use case thatContinue reading Increasing target size
I look forward to comparing UAAG/ATAG/WCAG to the Optimizing Web Applications and Content for iPhone. It’s good to know there is at least one thing in common, “viewport.” clipped from www.alistapart.com The iPhone makes prominent a little-discussed web development concept: the viewport. To deal with the problem of fitting a relatively large web page ontoContinue reading Viewports
Are you concerned about search engine optimization? If you make excellent use of CSS but your HTML lacks good structure, consider this quote from a 21 March 2007 PC Magazine article, “Remember that search engines read the HTML source code, so optimize your code so that it’s easy for bots to find keywords in theContinue reading Structure and SEO