Accessibility

Article — 7 June 2016 — 611 words

The Google accessibility tool that will improve mobile devices for everyone

Accessibility — Digital

Google wanted to fix mobile interfaces for people with motor impairments. But this new technology will benefit us all.

Article — 12 April 2016 — 1,173 words

Why your emojis are getting lost in translation and what you can do about it

Accessibility — Digital

You’ve probably been using some emojis wrongly without realising it.

Article — 6 April 2016 — 712 words

Why inclusive design benefits all your users

Accessibility

This first edition looks at why designers should take so-called edge cases seriously, to the benefit of all users.

Article — 7 March 2016 — 1,467 words

Web developers need to shape up and declare war on webpage obesity

Accessibility — Digital — Web

As an industry, web professionals have failed their users. It’s time to stop building bloated and inaccessible pages.

Article — 24 December 2012 — 593 words

Colour

Accessibility — Web

Concluding my look at the decisions I made while designing this website, this article looks at the issues surrounding colour.

Article — 22 December 2012 — 558 words

HTML5 and web fonts

Accessibility — Web

This series of posts will cover some of the decisions I have made while designing this website. This first article looks at the issues surrounding HTML5 and web fonts.

Linknote — 23 June 2005 — 56 words

Accessibility — Web

Websites alienate Firefox users — BBC News

After all this time, one in ten websites are still not supporting Firefox. Luckily, I don’t use any of them.

“Surprisingly, after all these years, users of standard-compliant browsers are still faced with sites that do not support their browser or with a link suggesting they download Internet Explorer,” said Deri Jones, chief executive of SciVisum.