Saturday 04th September 2010.
RIP Jack Pickard
Very sad news from the accessibility community. Jack Pickard, or @thepickards to his friends on Twitter, passed away this weekend. Not much that I can say personally that hasn’t already been said by others. You will be – no, are – missed, Jack. If you want to say something for friends/family, leave a comment on [...]
What to do with Accessify?
I’ve been thinking about what to write in this post – or even whether to write it at all – for a long time. Bottom line is that I’m struggling to put Accessify to its best use and I’m after some ideas about what I can do to sort this out. A few months ago [...]
The blind leading the non-blind
In my previous post I mentioned that I was after a few tips about how I might approach the task of teaching HTML to a 15-year-old blind lad, Harry, who’s at my place of work on work experience. The tips were very handy but I will confess that the day had crept up on me [...]
Teaching a Blind Person HTML?
I’m after some ideas on something here. Tomorrow I will be sitting down with a lad who’s here on work experience who is completely blind. He’s been doing some assessment of various web sites over the last couple of days but tomorrow I have got to try to teach him a bit about building web [...]
Interview with Accessible Twitter creator Dennis Lembree
Accessify recently spoke to founder of Accessible Twitter Dennis Lembree, who is also behind Web Overhauls and web accessibility podcast Web Axe. We wanted to find out more about the background to Accessible Twitter, what prompted it and where it might go next. Here’s what Dennis had to say: Accessify: Dennis, congratulations on Accessible Twitter: [...]
SuperPreview ? Nice App, Shame about the Name
It might be the done thing for web developers in certain corners to routinely have a dig at Microsoft – certainly, they’ve given us enough ammo/cause in the past to make this easy (Songsmith, I’m particularly looking at you at the moment!) – but while many of these people will be having a moan about [...]
Fantastic offer ? 5 books for the price of 1
How would you like 5 of SitePoint’s rather fine technical publications for just $29.99 US? Sounds like an absolute bargain, doesn’t it? Well, it is a deal not to be missed and you have 3 days to make the most of it. So get to it! Visit SitePoint’s 5-for-1 sale here As a SitePoint author [...]
Easy YouTube caption creator ? a very rough first ?build?
OK, before I start, let me just emphasise that this tool is not meant to be anything complicated and I’m not suggesting that it in any way replaces other existing ‘Swiss Army knife’ style captioning tools – this is a one-trick pony! And the trick this pony does is help to caption YouTube videos. If [...]
Spam emails from Accessifyforum?
If anyone is receiving spam emails notifying about private messages, please note that this is not something that I can help you with. Accessify.com is my site, but accessifyforum.com is owned/maintained by Nigel Peck, which he set up using that URL/name with my blessing way back in the days (it’s more of a partnership link [...]
New book review: Universal Design
Just a quick note to say there’s a new review up on the site, this time for Wendy Chisholm and Matt May’s book Universal Design for Web Applications. I’m hoping to secure a few copies for a little prize giveaway, so watch this space. We’ll also be publishing an extract from the book soon, but [...]
