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From: Birkir R. Gunnarsson
Date: Tue, Apr 23 2013 3:22PM
Subject: Obvious current examples of benefits of accessibility to mobile phone users
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Fellas and ladies.
I am writing another "selling accessibility" type blog for a
mainstream company in Iceland. I did very well last time, got the blog
even published in a newspaper, not because of its content, more that
the blog guy who edits and corrects blog managed to make my work
awfully funny, even I laughed at it myself.
But he left the serious undertones and the message.
For this one I want, among other things, to sell the connection
between good accessibility and better experience for mobile phone
users.
W3C has some good set of articles on that, but I was wondring if there
is something short and recent or something that only points out two or
3 things that are important both for web accessibility and better
mobile experience.
One thing I have heard a few times is that explicitly associating a
label with a form field will allow mobile phone users to click into
the field by clicking on the label (it will zoom into the field
automatically).
I have seen this mentioned in oneor two article as a side benefit, but
fail to find an article that discusses this explicitly.
If anyone can test this out for me, or has links to a short and sweet
article selling the connection between web accessibility and mobile
accessibility, I would surely appreciate it a lot.
I don't want to make exaggrated statements, and I want to be able to
link to a different article backing up all my major points, so this
would be very valuable.
Thanks
-B
From: Patrick H. Lauke
Date: Wed, Apr 24 2013 3:45AM
Subject: Re: Obvious current examples of benefits of accessibility to mobile phone users
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On 23/04/2013 22:22, Birkir R. Gunnarsson wrote:
> W3C has some good set of articles on that, but I was wondring if there
> is something short and recent or something that only points out two or
> 3 things that are important both for web accessibility and better
> mobile experience.
One of my recent hobby horses is the whole resurgence of the "don't do
things on :hover / onmouseover because touchscreen devices don't have a
concept of hovering" advice, which we've been preaching forever with
regards to keyboard access (avoiding hover-based interaction, or at the
very least making it work on :focus / focus as well). Sadly, don't have
any recent articles about it to link to.
> I don't want to make exaggrated statements, and I want to be able to
> link to a different article backing up all my major points, so this
> would be very valuable.
P
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Patrick H. Lauke