The Webby Awards Unveils Exciting New Inaccessible Website
The Webby Awards is the leading international award honoring excellence on the Internet. It's been around since the late 1990's, and each year about this time it announces this year's nominees (to be announced on April 9 this year), followed … Continue reading →
More2012-13: One Accomplishment, One Resolution
I'm one of those people who finds the final week of a calendar year to be a good time to reflect on the waning year and make plans for the waxing one. Being just one person in a world of … Continue reading →
MoreOn Memorizing 3,523 Keyboard Shortcuts
Ever get overwhelmed by the number of things you have to memorize in order to function in today's society? User names, passwords, account numbers, PINs, locker combinations, telephone numbers, TV channels, and on and on until our brains explode. Now … Continue reading →
MoreHustle is neither Hype Nor Hope. It is both Hope and Hype.
This post is a belated reply to Dylan Wilbank's blog post Hustle Is Hype and Joel Goodman's reply Hustle is Hope. Both writers make gobs of excellent points, and the discussion on both blogs and on Twitter is great. I … Continue reading →
MoreThe New Responsive Web Design: Designing for Sight, Sound, and Touch
I'm writing this post as I enjoy a little down time at the conclusion of the the 2012 HighEdWeb conference. Predictably, the buzz word at this year's conference was "responsive", and several of the sessions focused on responsive web design. … Continue reading →
MoreHow to Make the World a Better Place: Caption! Subtitle!
Generally I'm a positive, optimistic guy, but sometimes fellow humans remind me how far we hungry pack animals still have to go before we can all embrace each other with love and respect. Despite all we do to make the … Continue reading →
MoreMy Take on the WebAIM Survey
WebAIM's Screen Reader User Survey #4 Results are out! Like many accessibility-minded web developers I eagerly anticipate these survey results, which have been released on a roughly annual basis since 2009. Few resources have as large an impact on the … Continue reading →
MoreGood Examples of Accessible Web Sites
Last week Steven Faulkner blogged about real world ARIA landmark use. He analyzed the HTML home pages of the top 10,000 websites, looking for ARIA landmark roles. Among his findings, he discovered that 130 of these pages are using role="main". … Continue reading →
MoreAn Open Letter to Hilton Hotels
Dear Hilton Hotels, I'm writing to thank you, and especially thank Kenya in the financial department at Hilton Atlanta Airport, for outstanding customer service. I had booked a one-night reservation at the Hilton for Wednesday April 11 through
MoreAccessible Dropdown Menus
A couple weeks ago at the 27th Annual CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference I gave a presentation on accessible dropdown menus. In that presentation, I walked through several examples of accessible menu techniques (and a few not-so-accessible … Continue reading →
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