Abrahams Accessibility
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Abrahams Accessibility blog contains short pieces of news and thoughts on accessibility and usability.
Accessibility covers making all of ICT easier to use by people with disabilities and challenges and how to make peoples lives easier by the use of ICT.
Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appear in Peter Abrahams publications and articles for Bloor Research, a good introduction can be found in A Report on Usability and Accessibility in ICT.
Apple push accessibility to the front
I have written about Apple and accessiblity on many occasions, e.g. here, giving them a red card quite often but praising them when they added features that improved accessiblity of any product. My overall impression was Apple tried but...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 10th June '09
Accessibility Conferences
This blog will be updated each time I become aware of a new conference. If you are running a conference please click on the contact the author button and I will update the blog.
I will be running a session on ‘WCAG 2.0 and new...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 8th June '09
Major step forward in Accessible PDF Standards
PDF documents are ubiquitous and therefore need to be accessible to all.
The ISO 32000 standard defines the PDF document format and includes specific features to enable PDF documents to be accessible. For example alternate text can be added...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 3rd June '09
Accessibility has its rewards
Working in accessibility sometimes feels like an uphill struggle with little external recognition. We keep chipping away at the issues because we know it is the right thing to do and because we do know that we are benefiting our target audience....
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 16th April '09
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 general; but in reality does not make sense because...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 17th March '09
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 the output is by voice; press a button on the...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 11th March '09
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 the points about people with disabilities,...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 11th February '09
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 Islamic New Year Maal Hijra, all occurred at the same...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 5th January '09
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 that the main benefit was that the new guidelines...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 16th December '08
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 websites. DPC BS 8878 Web accessibility—Building...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 8th December '08