An open letter from Andy Clarke detailing how a popstars vibrant website excludes so many from accessing the content. An eye opener for all website owners, includes screenshots and guidance to make the site better for all. Read the article – ‘Dear Taylor Swift‘.
Today is Blog Action Day – a day where thousands of bloggers across the world commit to write on the same topic with the aim of creating awareness around that issue. The topic this year is Poverty.
I work with a wide range of organisations on their communications, branding and websites. When working together on [...]
“Nobody likes to think of themselves as disabled – lots of people ignore content aimed at disabled people because they want to use what everybody is using” – one of the quotes from the conference day at Scripting Enabled.
I recently attended Scripting Enabled, which was a two day event held in London on 19th and [...]
Deafness and the User Experience is a recent article at A List Apart that helps you to a better understanding of deafness, highlighting the need to stop thinking of deafness as simply the inverse of hearing, but to understand deafness from both a cultural and linguistic perspective. A great overview with lots of suggestions [...]
Scripting Enabled is a conference and hack day taking place in London, England in September 2008.
The aim of the conference is to break down the barriers between disabled users and the social web as much as giving ethical hackers real world issues to solve. Find out more at the Scripting Enabled website.
It’s that time of year again. Anyone who is involved with making, developing or editing websites should take this quick survey. Nearly 33,000 people took the first survey last year which provided a snapshot picture into the web profession.
Improvements have been made to this years survey to reflect the wider diversity [...]
Silverback, a recently released tool, created by the geniuses at Clearleft provides unobtrusive usability testing for designers and developers. In short, it captures screen activity, videos the users voice and actions, you can add chapters and notes, and exports the files to Quicktime. This new application is for Mac only, and is available for [...]
Chris Heilmann did an excellent thought inspiring post yesterday on his blog at Wait til I come! on Is it time to take Mashups and use them to solve real issues? where he writes about his mashup fatigue but also the recent events that have re-inspired him to think again with mashups especially later in [...]
Visitors to my blog will notice something missing today. (on the 9th April only) It’s the third annual CSS Naked Day and over 1500 websites and blogs across the globe will have taken part.
The idea behind this event is to promote Web Standards. Plain and simple. This includes proper use of (x)html, semantic markup, [...]
The Design Vitality site has a useful list of 40 helpful free web based tools to help you design anything from logo’s, create and edit webpages, includes collaborative online tools, and image editing and more. See the full list at Design Vitalitys’ 40 excellent web based tools.