links.lmorchard.com - #accessibility

How building an HTML-first site doubled our users overnight

Thu, 18 Jun 2026 19:52:25 +0000

It is not acceptable to bounce users on old browsers, users with bad network connections, users using assistive technologies. Certainly not from a monopoly public service. A lot of hype and noise is pressing us to extend the cowboy, wild-west phase of the software industry’s expansion. We should set that aside, and take ourselves seriously as a mature industry. Build a web application that works on a playstation portable on a 3G connection - if you do, it will work for all your users, and it will still work 30 years from now.

Tags: #accessibility #html #webcomponents #webdev

You can’t create a button | NCZOnline

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:20:00 +0000

Unfortunately, sometimes web developers try to get a bit too clever in creating their interfaces. What if I want something to look like a link but act like a button?

Tags: #accessibility #buttons #html #imported:pinboard #js #links #webdev

You can’t create a button | NCZOnline

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:20:00 +0000

Unfortunately, sometimes web developers try to get a bit too clever in creating their interfaces. What if I want something to look like a link but act like a button?

Tags: #accessibility #buttons #html #js #links #webdev

My first experience using an accessible touch screen device « Marco’s accessibility blog

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 02:03:28 +0000

"Yes, you read correctly: An accessible touch screen device! This morning, I went to a retail store carrying mostly Apple products and had a look at the new iPhone 3G S that was released in Germany on Friday. "

Tags: #accessibility #apple #iphone #mobile #touchscreen

Accessibility is a harsh mistress [dive into mark]

Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:18:11 +0000

"When I was an accessibility architect at IBM, I assisted in the final stages of ensuring that Eclipse’s Graphical Editing Framework was fully accessible to blind people. ... During one particularly difficult teleconference, an Eclipse developer muttered something like, “You realize no one is ever actually going to do any of this, right?” There was an awkward silence as the people who had spent their lives in the trenches of access enablement contemplated the very real possibility that no one would ever benefit from their work."

Tags: #accessibility #graphics #svg #webdev

Do McC's war injuries prevent him from using a computer? (Scripting News)

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 20:20:28 +0000

"PS: Try searching for quadriplegic and computers. It's a hint. Amazing progress has been made in making computers accessible to people with disabilities. Seriously."

Tags: #accessibility #computers #disabilities #internet #mccain

Wait till I come! » Blog Archive » SEO and Accessibility - a talk

Mon, 25 Feb 2008 06:41:18 +0000

"Here is a talk I just gave at an internal SEO conference about the overlap of SEO and Accessibility."

Tags: #accessibility #seo #webdev

Automatic conversion from simple, accessible data tables to YUI Charts » Yahoo! User Interface Blog

Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:24:35 +0000

"That’s all you need to do to progressively enhance an accessible data table to turn them into a pie chart using the YUI Charts Control."

Tags: #accessibility #javascript #js #unobtrusive #webdev #yui

150 Headlines: Faust: Flash Augmenting Standards

Wed, 28 Mar 2007 18:36:22 +0000

Did this at Organic over a year ago. "Faust is a process for writing accessible sites where the page seen by users with Flash installed uses the same HTML as the page seen by users without Flash. ... parses content right out of the HTML page. "

Tags: #accessibility #css #flash #for:jm3 #javascript #webdev

Adobe Spry and obtrusive, inaccessible JavaScript | 456 Berea Street

Wed, 24 Jan 2007 18:05:03 +0000

"Come on Adobe, you both can and should do better than this."

Tags: #accessibility #adobe #javascript #spry #webdev