Get the most out of #ID24
For those of you who are not aware, #ID24 (Inclusive Design 24) returns for another 24 hours of live accessibility talks on 9 June starting at midnight UTC/GMT. We here…
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You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!: Frontend United 2017
Frontend United is a conference for web designers and developers, held this year in Athens. I went along to talk about JavaScript and ARIA.
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Accessibility and the self-organizing team
In Agile, getting the team to self-organize so that they take on the work best suited to their skillset helps to keep work flowing through the team. What happens though when accessibility related work needs to be completed? Who is responsible for taking on work that they might not be familiar with or have the skillset for?
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Technologic (Human afterall): DevIT
DEVit is a 360 conference, held in Thessaloniki Greece. It encompasses all aspects of web production, from infrastructure and architecture, through to design and development. I had the honour to…
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GAAD 2017: I wish I’d known…
GAAD: I wish I’d known… To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day, and inspired by Billy Gregory’s talk “Things I Wish I Knew When I Started in Digital Accessibility”, we’ve asked…
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Making SVG accessible: London Web Standards
London Web Standards is an established and popular meetup for web professionals. The meetups cover a broad range of topics including design, development, UX and accessibility, and this month I…
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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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Accessibility as a focus for people-first design: Manchester UX in the City
I gave a talk at the first UX in the City conference in Manchester, UK, on May 5th 2017, exploring the connection between people-first design and accessibility and inclusive design….
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Business as usual
We’ve been asked a lot of questions since the announcement that TPGi has joined VFO. Our friends and colleagues across the industry want to know what the news means for…
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Selfish accessibility: MinneWebCon 2017
I finally managed to get to MinneWebCon after 10 years (this was its tenth anniversary), and I did it as a speaker. I presented “Selfish Accessibility” to a completely full…
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TPGi Joins VFO
NASHUA, N.H. and ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – May 1, 2017 / FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE VFO™, the world’s leading assistive technology provider for the visually impaired and home of the Freedom…
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An Introduction to Alt Text for Tweets: ACES 2017
I just recently got back from the American Copy Editors Society’s yearly conference, which was held in St. Petersburg, Florida. (ACES 2018 will be in Chicago, which I’m looking forward…
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Accessible Code for Web Designers: CSUN 2017
In my CSUN presentation this year I wanted to talk about what I think is the minimum amount of code that web designers should understand to best embed accessibility into…
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What Comes After WCAG 2.1?: CSUN 2017
What is the long-term plan for upgrading WCAG? The Accessibility Guidelines Working Group (AGWG) of the W3C is currently working on WCAG 2.1. A small group of members of AGWG…
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Developer versus user: CSUN 2017
For our CSUN session this year, Léonie Watson and I had a friendly debate about accessibility from the perspective of an end user and a developer. While we are both…
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Fringe accessibility: London Web Standards
The London Web Standards meet-up in March 2017 had me in to present my talk “Fringe Accessibility”. As promised, I have posted my slides. If you cannot see the embed…
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Selfish accessibility: WordCamp London 2017
I presented my talk “Selfish Accessibility” at WordCamp London 2017 and had a great response. The organizers made an effort to include accessibility, not just with dedicated captioners in each…
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Sidestepping Ableist Language: CSUN 2017
I had a blast at the CSUN conference in San Diego. It was wonderful to be able to catch up with colleagues in the field, and as always, I picked…