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Two years of W3C participation
It’s already been over two years since I joined the W3C’s Accessible Platform Architectures (APA) Working Group. Time flying has pretty much been the nature of my involvement with APA,…
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Accessibility at the W3C Workshop on Web Games
I recently attended the W3C Workshop on Web Games, hosted at Microsoft’s headquarters in Redmond, WA. This post is a summary of what I learnt from an accessibility perspective. It…
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Colour deficit help
This is the last in the current series of articles looking at adaptations for accessibility, based on new techniques or research. The last part discussed “invert brightness”. Many people in…
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How “invert brightness” can improve accessibility and help us use our devices
This post continues our series looking at innovative assistive technologies. The last post discussed some novel techniques for personalising interfaces to their users and devices. This post discusses an adaptation…
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The promise of personalised interfaces
The last post in this series ends by saying that the world of academic research has a lot to offer in terms of innovative approaches to adaptation that can improve accessibility for…
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Challenges, opportunities and the potential for low-vision access
This is an opinion piece, looking at one slice of accessibility, to highlight some trends and possibilities. All of the computing devices, platforms and assistive technologies discussed within empower people…
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Improving access to landmark navigation
Landmark-based navigation is a great way to signpost to screen reader users areas of content in a page such as main content, the header, navigation, search and so on. Being…
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INSERT key usage in Windows on a Mac
This article collects together and updates advice I have encountered on and off the web to access or map the INSERT key in Windows on a Mac (either in a…
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Enabling landmark-based keyboard navigation in Firefox
The Landmarks extension discussed in this post has been re-written to work on a range of browsers—please read our latest article on it for more information. Landmark navigation is an increasingly…