Abrahams Accessibility blog contains short pieces of news and
thoughts on accessibility and usability.
Accessibility covers making all of ICT easier to use by people
with disabilities and challenges and how to make peoples lives
easier by the use of ICT.
Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appear in Peter Abrahams publications and articles for Bloor Research, a good
introduction can be found in
A Report on Usability and Accessibility in ICT.
I have written about Apple and accessiblity on many occasions, e.g. here, giving them a red card quite often but praising them when they added features that improved accessiblity of any product. My overall impression was Apple tried but...
This blog will be updated each time I become aware of a new conference. If you are running a conference please click on the contact the author button and I will update the blog.
I will be running a session on ‘WCAG 2.0 and new...
PDF documents are ubiquitous and therefore need to be accessible to all.
The ISO 32000 standard defines the PDF document format and includes specific features to enable PDF documents to be accessible. For example alternate text can be added...
Working in accessibility sometimes feels like an uphill struggle with little external recognition. We keep chipping away at the issues because we know it is the right thing to do and because we do know that we are benefiting our target audience....
A wheelchair symbol is often used to identify information about accessibility of computer systems. At first sight this might seem reasonable as it is a well-known symbol for disabilities in general; but in reality does not make sense because...
Apple have just announced the latest iPod Shuffle. It is the smallest iPod yet—about the size of my thumb but thinner. They have managed to make it so small by getting rid of the screen. All the output is by voice; press a button on the...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 11th February '09
If you are going to present on accessibility and would like a coffee break intro then you might like to use this WCAG 2.0 rap on Easy YouTube.
The video is fun and well made and helps to make the points about people with disabilities,...
A happy New Year to all my readers.
This holiday season was unusual in the fact that the Christian festival Christmas, the Jewish festival Chanukkah (חנכה), and the Islamic New Year Maal Hijra, all occurred at the same...
Peter Abrahams, Bloor Research | 16th December '08
WCAG 2.0 is a set of guidelines, that are designed to replace 1.0, on creating accessible web content. I wrote about the Proposed Recommendation when was published in November. I suggested then that the main benefit was that the new guidelines...
BSI, British Standards, is inviting all interested parties, and in particular marketing professionals and disabled web users, to review and comment on the draft of a new standard on accessible websites. DPC BS 8878 Web accessibility—Building...
Dana Gardner Principal Analyst Interarbor Solutions
Peter Williams Practice Leader - IT Infrastructure Mgmt. Bloor Research
Simon Holloway Practice Leader - Process Management & RFID Bloor Research
Peter Abrahams Practice Leader - Accessibility and Usability Bloor Research
