The accessibility blog contains short pieces of news and thoughts on accessibility and usability. Accessibility covers making all of ICT easier to use by people with disabilities and challenges and how to make peoples lives easier by the use of ICT. Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appear in Peter  Abrahams publications and articles for Bloor Research.

Accessibility News Snippets

A variety of snippets of news suggest that accessibility and usability are going up the agenda and more organisations are recognising the needs of people with disabilities

Accessible to whom?

Should web sites be accessible to all regardless of disability? The simple answer is yes, this article investigates in more detail.

Data Migration

With this article Bloor Research is making two papers (one a survey and the other a white paper) on data mingration available for free download.

Document formats and accessibility

ISO have had a second ballot on OpenXML. IBM has joined OpenOffice.org. What will be the impact on accessibility, assistive technologies, browser support and other user interfaces?

A different approach to spreadsheets

EASA's spreadsheet management software is a spreadsheet automation tool. That is, it enables the creation of spreadsheet applications whereby the original spreadsheet is held in a database