Memory supplement for an ageing population
The demographic predictions of many countries, especially in the developed world, make it clear that the percentage of old people is growing, as is life expectancy, and the relative number of...
A key new accessible websites standard is ready for review
BSI, British Standards, is inviting all interested parties, and in particular marketing professionals and disabled web users, to review and comment on the draft of a new standard on accessible...
Accessible PDFs made easier
There are hundreds of millions of PDF documents on the web. It is such a popular format because it can be viewed on most devices that attach to the web and because it looks the same on any of these...
Adobe Accessibility News
PDF and Flash files are ubiquitous with hundreds of millions of files on the web. They contain an enormous amount of useful, important and interesting information most of which is not available...
IBM Lotus Symphony now on the Mac
In early November 2008 Lotus announced Symphony 1.2. The release includes support for the Ubuntu Linux operating system, some DataPilot table functions that provide summaries of spreadsheet data,...
Major new accessibility features in Firefox 3.0.4
It is the morning of 17 November amd I have just switched my computer on. The first thing that happened was that Firefox upgraded to 3.0.4. At first it looked just like another security update but...
New web content accessibility guidelines published
In May 1999 the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) published Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 (WCAG 1.0) and since then they have been the benchmark for testing the accessibility of web...
Google Book Library for the print-disabled
For several years Google have been digitising books, by scanning copies in libraries, and making them available on-line. The publishing industry was unhappy about this and they started a class...
How to design and test for usability
TechSmith are sponsoring a series of roundtables on the subject of usability. The first roundtable took a high level view of the area and investigated the importance of usability, what barriers...
The latest Assistive Technology: Skype
If you are a keen solo yachtsman and you go blind how do you carry on with your passion? The answer is to hook up a video link using Skype. Ed Gallagher has slowly lost his sight over the last...