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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.
e-Access 08 was a great day in London
e-Access is a yearly conference in London reviewing accessibility and technology. I could not attend last year so I found it particularly interesting to compare the change in emphasis over two years. See my blog Accessibility to direct the...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 6th May '08
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.
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Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 1st May '08
See the naked bodies of 500 websites for one day only
CSS Naked Day 08 is intended to be a fun way to show the wider public the importance and power of CSS. The idea is that some website owners and designers have committed to disable their CSS for the day, so in fact showing the naked body of the...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 8th April '08
UK Business Taskforce on Accessible Technology
The Employers' Forum on Disability (EFD) is the leading employers' organisation in the UK focused on disability as it affects employers and service providers. It recently announced the formation of the Business Taskforce on Accessible Technology...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 2nd April '08
Businesses should do more to avoid repetitive strain injuries (RSI)
RSI Action is a UK charity working to facilitate the prevention of RSI (Repetitive Strain Injuries) conditions and for the relief of sickness, hardship and distress amongst those suffering with RSI.
The RSI Action annual conference was held...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 14th March '08
How accessible are the high street websites
Webcredible, a web usability and accessibility consultancy based in London, has just published a survey of the accessibility of 20 of the top UK retailers. For the record the top five were: H. Samuel, HMV, B&Q, John Lewis and Argos, all with...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 7th January '08
Second Life is now too important not to be accessible
Just over a year ago I wrote an article Second Life Class Action about the inaccessibility of Second Life and followed that in January by the suggestion of a beginning of a solution in Second Life open source accessible client.
My Class...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 11th December '07
Amazon Kindle for people with disabilities
In a previous blog Kindle and Surface new interfaces accessible? Usable? I wrote about Microsoft Surface and promised to extend the discussion to Amazon's announcement of Kindle as they represent two new user interfaces that may be of interest to...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 10th December '07
Kindle and Surface new interfaces accessible? Usable?
Recently Microsoft announced Surface, a tabletop computer interface, and Amazon announced Kindle, an electronic book reader with a digital paper interface. The question I am asking myself is do these new interfaces provide new opportunities or new...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 3rd December '07
HMRC goes public on accessibility
HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) is the UK government department that collects direct and indirect taxes and pays benefits to individuals. This means that most adults are users of its services and this also means that it needs to provide...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 30th November '07