It’s charter time for the Accessibility Guidelines Working Group, well, in 6 months, but we have to start the planning well in advance!| AlastairC
The CSUN ATC conference is one of the largest accessibility related conferences in the world. (It stands for “California State University in Northridge”, the conference name is actually “Assistive Technology Conference”.)| AlastairC
Steph McGovern and Robert Peston on The Rest is Money were were asking for people’s thoughts about cryptocurrency. I wrote the below as an email but they haven’t used it, so I thought I’d keep it here. I bought 19 bitcoin in early 2011 (for £11 each) and I’ve thought about the technology, and the value, quite a lot.| AlastairC
The short answer to the title is: Accessibility is not an average.| AlastairC
I’ve written about the accessibility-gap on the user-agent side before (back in 2007!), I thought it a useful time for an update. I’m trying to answer the question: What could user-agents (primarily browsers in this case) do to improve the experience of websites for people with disabilities?| AlastairC
This article was based on a previous draft of WCAG 2.2 and is no longer valid. I’m keeping it here for posterity, outlining the good ideas from the previous version, even though it was not thought practical in all cases.| AlastairC
There’s a concept, originally from WHATWG I think, that might be worth translating for accessibility in a guidelines context: Priority of Constituencies.| AlastairC
There was a W3C session called “Accessibility at the Edge“, essentially trying to tackle the technical aspects of accessibility overlays. I’ll add links to the session and video if & when that is published.| AlastairC
Unusually this is not an accessibility post, it is a home cinema/TV thing. If you have a good OLED TV and surround-sound system, this may be relevant.| AlastairC
A great article by Eric Bailey crossed my twitter stream: “Accessibility auditing and ego“. It triggered a couple of thoughts I would like to “yes and…”.| AlastairC