All posts by AlastairC
Note on Non-HTML formats
In my previous article on responsibilities in accessibility you might have noticed that I'd fallen into the traditional accessibility trap of only really referring to (X)HTML/CSS sites and guidelines. I'm quite aware of other technologies, but it's worth looking at why other formats are harder to make accessible.
Responsibilities in accessibility
The W3C has defined what to do for accessibility at each 'end' (i.e. client side or web site site), but there is quite a lot of overlap, and scant advice on who should be responsible for what. I'm going to try and show who's responsible now, and where things should go.
Web mob is the new jury?
Any web geek will have heard of the Digg vs. the AACS copy protection body, but is this the new Jury system?
Upcoming relaunched
Upcoming.org is a site that allowed people to publish their events, and therefore you could see all the events by location and/or type of event. Yahoo bought the company, they have relaunched the site, and it's pretty good (functionality wise at least, I've not checked the markup).
Powerpoint bad for your brain?
Just an off the cuff post during lunch: There is an article republished on Outlaw called Official: Powerpoint bad for brains, which I tend to agree with, but I suspect their analysis of the cause may be flawed.
Domain woes
If you've found this site, well done! My main domain (alastairc.ac) has just been dropped without warning by the registrar. I've switched over to alastc.com for now, needless to say, nic.ac is not my favorite registrar at the moment.
Automated PDF accessibility testing
I periodically receive emails from Sitemorse, despite trying to unsubscribe a couple of years ago. This one escaped my usual filters, and I noticed an interesting statistic about the number of accessible PDFs in the wild. SharePoint 2007 accessibility
I attend my first Microsoft (MS) oriented user group meeting yesterday, the SharePoint User Group on search and accessibility. Unfortunately our developers werre either too busy or on holiday, so I got volunteered. .net does accessibility
I was a bit quiet over the Christmas period, because .net magazine had asked me to do an article on accessibility. I'm very pleased with the result, it's great to see it in print, although also quite nerve-wracking: I'm used to making post-publish edits! Think ahead – Buy accessible
If there was one thing I could get across to project managers, company owners, and CTOs, it would be Struan Robertson's advice from a recent article "Legal reasons to make intranets, extranets and software accessible" on Out-Law.