We're Recruiting for an ICT Accessibility Researcher
Written by CFIT Jobs Thursday, 21 January 2010
We're currently recruiting for an ICT Accessibility Researcher to work on the VICON project. VICON (Virtual User Concept for Inclusive Design of Consumer Products and User Interfaces) will address the needs of people with age-related sensory and physical impairments in the design of mobile phones, white goods and other Information and Communication Technologies. This is a 27 month fixed term contract starting in April 2010.
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Are PDFs More Important Than Web Accessibility?
Written by Mark Magennis Friday, 04 September 2009
We recently did an audit of a website where probably close to 99% of all the information it contained was in downloadable documents, mostly PDFs. These documents contained a lot of the stuff you'd usually find on a website – structured text, data tables, application forms, complex diagrams, graphs and other images. None of those we looked at were accessible. We wondered what we should advise the client to do about it.
WAI-ARIA finally added to HTML5
Written by Joshue O Connor Friday, 28 August 2009
WAI-ARIA is an incredibly powerful technology that allows developers to easily describe the purpose, state and other functionality of visually rich user interfaces - in a way that can be understood by Assistive Technology.
WAI-ARIA has finally been integrated into the current working draft of the HTML 5 specification.
XHTML is dead - Viva HTML5?
Written by Joshue O Connor Friday, 17 July 2009
Recently the