Detangling Complex Components: Funka 2018
I recently had the pleasure of presenting at the 2018 Funka Accessibility Days in Stockholm, Sweden and what an absolutely amazing time I had. The conference, the people and the…
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Slides: TPGi at CSUN 2018
Members of the TPGi team gave several talks at the 33rd CSUN Assistive Technology Conference. Below is an overview of talks and includes links to slides where available.
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There’s more to performance than meets the eye: #PerfMatters
#PerfMatters is a web performance conference in San Francisco. I was invited to give a talk, and decided to look at the impact screen readers and the different browser process…
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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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Short note on what CSS display properties do to table semantics
The CSS display properties are powerful. You can change the visual display of elements to match your desired styling, but sometimes doing this can have an unintended effect of nuking…
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Short note on hiding stuff in interactive elements from screen readers
Symbols are cool. They add decoration and/or information to user interfaces. For screen reader users their inclusion can sometimes be annoying or confusing as the visual and aural user interface…
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TPGi at CSUN 2018
The 33rd CSUN Assistive Technology Conference will be in San Diego from March 20 to 23. Here’s a round-up of the talks given by members of the TPGi team and…
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Accessibility and the Web of Things (WoT) – part 2
Just over a year ago, I wrote about TPGi joining the W3C Web of Things (WoT) Interest and Working Groups, so I thought it was about time I provided an…
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Results from the main landmark survey
When the HTML main element was created, it was intended to represent the single chunk of content that made up the main content area of the page. This definition was…
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Inclusive design principles: provide a comparable experience
This is our second post in a series that digs deeper into the thinking and application of the Inclusive Design Principles. It follows on from the first post Be Consistent. In…
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Section 508 Refresh (Part 2)
Updated 6/29/2023 In Part 1 of our Section 508 Refresh, we focused on the background, history and highlighted some of the key changes influencing the revised Section 508 standards. In…
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TPGi at large in 2017
As 2017 draws to a close, I’d like to share a few of the activities members of the TPGi team have been involved in throughout the year. Participating in the…
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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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TPGi at Accessing Higher Ground 2017
I was one of a small group of people from TPGi and colleagues from VFO who attended the 2017 edition of the Accessing Higher Ground (AHG) conference in Westminster, Colorado….
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UXPA UK World Usability Day 2017: Inclusion through User Experience
To celebrate World Usability Day 2017, the UK Chapter of the User Experience Professionals’ Association (UXPA UK) hosted an event in Hammersmith, London entitled Inclusion through User Experience. The event…
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Mobile Accessibility Testing Guide for Android and iOS – free
The TPGi Mobile Accessibility Testing for Android and iOS (PDF, 2.6MB) is a free accessible PDF outlining how to test native apps and the web for accessibility on Android and…
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Accessibility Scotland 2017
The second Accessibility Scotland conference took place in Edinburgh on September 22nd. Accessibility Scotlandwas started up in 2016 by a group of local accessibility advocates—Kevin White, Wojtek Kutyla, Peter Heery,…
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The art of noise (keep talking): Amuse UX
Amuse UX conference 2017 was held at the Hungarian Train Museum in Budapest. It was an extraordinary venue for a conference that brought together speakers and participants from around the…