Access-checker for Microsoft Office
Providing information in accessible format to people with disabilities is becoming increasingly important as organisations better understand the financial, moral, and legal benefits. Progress can...
Wheelchairs and accessible ICT
A wheelchair symbol is often used to identify information about accessibility of computer systems. At first sight this might seem reasonable as it is a well-known symbol for disabilities in...
Latest iPod Shuffle smallest and accessible
Apple have just announced the latest iPod Shuffle. It is the smallest iPod yet—about the size of my thumb but thinner. They have managed to make it so small by getting rid of the screen. All...
Accessible print for all
Over the last few years transactional reports to consumers such as telephone bills, bank statements, financial product statements and utility bills have all become more voluminous as more detail...
WCAG 2.0 Rap and Easy YouTube
If you are going to present on accessibility and would like a coffee break intro then you might like to use this WCAG 2.0 rap on Easy YouTube. The video is fun and well made and helps to make...
Learning Access Suite – for all schools
Last September Microlink, the largest independent supplier of assistive technology in the UK, Claro, the developers of a range of assistive technologies and Nuance, the developers of Dragon...
TalkByText: a telephone call for people with hearing or speech impairments
Enterprises and organisations of all shapes and sizes must be able to communicate effectively with their clients to survive. Technology, in particular the web, has greatly increased the number of...
How to tag documents with multiple languages and scripts.
A happy New Year to all my readers. This holiday season was unusual in the fact that the Christian festival Christmas, the Jewish festival Chanukkah (חנכה), and the...
Hands-free mind mapping
Human beings have two major methods of communication: words and pictures. Mind maps bring these two together in a highly structured and powerful way. Up to now, creating mind maps either on paper...
Web Content Accessiblity Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 published December 2008
WCAG 2.0 is a set of guidelines, that are designed to replace 1.0, on creating accessible web content. I wrote about the Proposed Recommendation when was published in November. I suggested then...