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Reflections on Web Adaptability and Techshare 2009
Last week I gave a talk entitled “From Web Accessibility To Web Adaptability” at the RNIB’s Techshare 2009 conference. I have already posted about this talk and described how I had created a slidecast of a rehearsal of the talk (co...
“From Web Accessibility To Web Adaptability” Talk at Techshare 2009
A proposal for a talk I submitted to the RNIB’s Techshare 2009 conference has been accepted. The talk on “From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability” will be given on 17 September 2009. The talk is based on the paper of the same nam...
The Science Online 2009 Unconference Video
As described on the On The Roof blog a video clip of the Fringe Frivolous Unconference is now available. The Fringe Frivolous Unconference took place on the evening of Friday 21 August 2009 on the roof terrace of the Mendeley offices. About 40-50 pe...
“From Web Accessibility To Web Adaptability”: A Summary
I recently announced that a paper on “From Web accessibility to Web adaptability” by myself, Liddy Nevile, Sotiris Fanou, Ruth Ellison, Lisa Herrod and David Sloan has been published. I also said that, due to copyright restrictions, acces...
“From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability” Paper Published
I’m pleased to report that a paper on From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability has been published in the Disability and Rehability: Assistive Technology journal. The full citation details are: From Web Accessibility to Web Adaptability, Kel...
The European Council Plans an Accessible Information Society
The European Council has recently announced a set of conclusions on how to deliver an accessible information society. In the announcement the Council welcomes the European Commission’s communication on “Towards an accessible information Socie...
Guerilla Accessibility Researchers
The recent Dev8D Developer Happiness Days provided an environment for developers in the JISC development community (and more widely) to engage in rapid software development. As the “Dev8D produces rapid results” post described “Day ...
Rethinking Web Accessibility for E-Learning
Why would we want to rethink Web accessibility in an elearning context? Surely application of WAI’s WCAG guidelines will provide universal accessibility? And the recently released WCAG 2.0 guidelines should improve things further. As described ...
Revisiting Web Accessibility Metadata
At the OzeWAI 2009 conference Liddy Nevile gave a talk on “AccessForAll Metadata for all Australian Resources”. I’ve known Liddy for over 10 years (I think we first met at a W3C working group meeting on PICS). Liddy has interests in...
Are You Able?
There were two invited keynote speakers who travelled from Europe to speak at the OzeWAI 2009 conference. As well as my talk (which I described recently ) Dr. Eva M. Méndez (an Associate Professor in the Library and Information Science Department at...
Web Accessibility Framework in 3 Words
Since 2005 I, in conjunction with a number of other accessibility researchers and practitioners in the UK and Australia, have sought to develop a framework for Web accessibility which addresses the shortcomings of the WAI model (which suggests that u...
From Web Accessibility 2.0 to Web Adaptability
OzeWAI 2009 The opportunity to escape the depths of a cold January in the UK to give the opening talk at the OzeWAI 2009 conference was too good to miss. So last week’s trip to La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia provided me with the oppo...
What I Would Like From The BS8878 Accessibility Code of Practice
I recently expressed reservations about the approaches being taken in the BS 8878 draft code of practice on Building Accessible Experiences for Disabled People. But I do feel that such a Code of Practice is desirable. However rather than the curren...
What Is A Web Site?
What is a Web site? Strange question, you many feel - surely everyone knows what a Web site is. Why would we want to try and define what a Web site is? And yet if you consider last year’s announcement that all Government Web sites must comply ...
BS 8878: Building Accessible Experiences for Disabled People
The BS 8878 Draft Code of Practice on Building Accessible Experiences for Disabled People The draft BS 8878 code of practice on “Building Accessible Experiences for Disabled People” is currently open for review, with the deadline for comm...
WCAG 2.0 is Now An Official W3C Recommendation
The WCAG 2.0 guidelines for Web content accessibility were officially launched yesterday (11 December 2009). Hurrah - the very dated and flawed WCAG 1.0 guidelines are no more! And organisations which require Web resources to conform to WCAG 1.0 ...
Designing for Disability Seminar
The Designing for Disability A recent blog post by Neil Witt on The VC’s New VLE inspired me to provide a new introduction to a talk I gave at the “Designing for Disability” seminar held on Friday 5th December 2008 at the British Muse...
Differences Between the WAI Standards Developer and User Perspectives
Back in September I presented a paper on “Web Accessibility 3.0: Learning From The Past, Planning For The Future” at the ADDW08 conference in which I described my criticisms of the WAI approach to Web accessibility and argued the need to ...
Videoing Talks As A Means Of Providing Equivalent Experiences
As I recently posted, a paper by myself and Liddy Nevile was accepted by the ADDW08 conference. In the paper we argued that the conventional wisdom regarding Web accessibility (just follow the WCAG guidelines and the Web environment will be universal...
Institutional Repositories and the Costs Of Doing It Right
There’s an interesting discussion taking place on the JISC-Repositories JISCMail list, following a post from Jenny Delasalle who asked: Do any of you know how long it takes you to process a single item, before it is available as a live record...
Web Accessibility 3.0
I previously mentioned a joint paper on “Redefining Accessibility for a Web 2.0 World” which has been accepted for the ADDW08 conference to be held at the University of York on 22-24th September 2008. David Sloan, the lead author for the...
On the Videos from the Repository Fringe 2008
On the The thoughts of a Code Gorilla blog a post on Videos from Repository Fringe 2008 provides a link to a number of videos of talks given at the Repository Fringe held recently in Edinburgh. The blog is written by a software developed who has bee...
Over Ten Years Of Accessibility Work
David Sloan and myself have had a paper on “Redefining Accessibility for a Web 2.0 World” accepted for the ADDW08 (Accessible Design in the Digital World) conference which will be held at the University of York on 23-24th September 2008. ...
EDINA And Web 2.0
I was recently reading the EDINA Newsletter. EDINA, a JISC-funded national datacentre based at the University of Edinburgh, has announced its strategic plan for 2008-2011(PDF) and amongst its priorities are “improving engagement with our user c...
