Roger Johansson has an excellent blog posting on “Click here and other meaningless link phrases“. Screen reader users often (and very often on home pages, site maps, and link indexes) open a list of all of the links on a web page. The link label (everything between the <a> and the </a>) is read for […]
The Washington Post has an interesting article yesterday about teaching computers to recognize images. Computers do not currently have the ability to determine whether an image of a cat is actually a cat or whether it is a dog, a human, or a telephone booth. But this new technology is teaching computers to better recognize […]
I had the great privilege of presenting at the Refresh the Web conference in Orlando last week. It was sponsored by the Refresh Orlando group, a member of the Refreshing Cities campaign. I had a great time meeting many people and getting to know old friends even better. My presentation notes are available and video […]
Aaron Leventhal of IBM is spearheading the efforts for making Firefox (and other Mozilla projects) accessible. He has written a great article for IBM – Firefox: An open source accessibility success story. It outlines the history of accessibility for Firefox as well as present efforts and future goals.
Imagine being able to influence the development of assistive technologies and web browsers at their core. Wouldn’t it be wonderful to meet the primary developers, give feedback, and even add a few features yourself? How much more accessible would the digital world be if you could sit down with accessibility experts and users with disabilities […]
