Several months ago I decided to spend some time using a few common, but often overlooked, assistive technologies and then report on my experiences and insights. The first two posts of this series presented my recommendations on designing for users of ZoomText and Dragon NaturallySpeaking. As the final part of this series, I will cover […]
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 became a W3C Recommendation (code for “finalized specification”) in December 2008. I am proud to have my name listed as a contributor to WCAG 2.0. All of WebAIM’s current clients are working toward WCAG conformance. None of them are seriously considering only the antiquated Section 508, the update of […]
Karl Groves recently published automated web accessibility test data for many of the Alexa Top 100 web sites. The results paint a rather stark picture of web accessibility. We agree with Karl’s suggestion that while automated testing is not a direct indicator of true accessibility issues, “poor performance in automated testing is strongly correlated with […]
Semantic automation is when user agents, such as browsers and screen readers, create meaning and relationships where the presented meaning and relationships are missing, ambiguous, or incorrect. In short, it’s applying algorithms to try and fix things that are probably broken. It’s computers guessing for good. In a very simple example, it is Google’s “Did […]
This is a continuation of a series of posts about my personal quest to learn more about some common assistive technologies. In my first post, I outlined my experiences with ZoomText. Since then, I have become more familiar with the speech recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking (Premium) by Nuance. Using Dragon Speech recognition software such as […]
