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Hanona.org 23 Sep 2010 | 04:26 am
This September, the Hanona.org website was launched. I've teamed up with a couple of guys and some disability organisations to provide some collective accessibility experience. This means that Hanona...
Expanding acronyms 24 Jun 2009 | 07:32 am
Acronyms and abbreviations are a pain in the bum. Very rarely do you see a good implementation of these siblings anywhere. Just recently I was taking a look at Teachers TV and found what I thought wa...
BRYCS 2009 24 Jun 2009 | 06:23 am
Climbing-wise, this has been an interesting year for the Broome Family, Both Noah (10) and Naomi (12) qualified to take part in the British Youth Climbing Series 2009 this weekend. Noah proved his m...
Hawking toolbar. 19 Oct 2007 | 10:39 pm
I just discovered this fantastic little application for FireFox that helps people with severe mobility impairments. Historically, switch access users haven't been able to get to the toolbar of their b...
Text size widgits - quite useful actually 27 Sep 2007 | 04:23 am
I think the accessibility community has become bored of late. Sites are getting much better, code is getting much cleaner and that leaves us twiddling our thumbs a bit. But recently there's been a fa...
Hello again. 26 Sep 2007 | 03:41 am
Apologies for the long absence, a lot has been happening over the past couple of months, it's been holiday season, so I took a holiday, very nice it was too, and also I have a bit of news: I became f...
Voice Activation and Flash 28 Jul 2007 | 02:20 am
Just a quick one, I just thought I'd post a note for accessible Flash developers regarding Voice activation software. Not everyone has had the chance to test using this software so This may be helpful...
Real World Accessibility 2 Jul 2007 | 11:55 pm
Following the success of their last event of the same name, Public Sector Forums are running a second event which is designed to highlight practical considerations for providing accessible web sites. ...
Defining Keyboard Access 18 Jun 2007 | 10:26 pm
Back in May I attended a Becta event which launched their"Making Software Accessible" guide. I also wrote a blog entry that covered the Becta event. I was pleased to see David Colven from the Ace Cen...
WCAG Samurai Errata released 14 Jun 2007 | 10:19 pm
The WCAG Samurai are a mysterious team of web accessibility warriors (mysterious because nobody is supposed to know who they are) led by Joe Clark. The purpose of this secret group was to write an Err...
