All posts by AlastairC
Four levels of accessibility customisation
There are some interesting discussions on customisation going on with the work on WCAG 2.1, the much anticipated (I hope) update to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. This is a little inside-baseball, but I've tried to make it understandable for a wider accessibility-audience.
AI for Facebook fake-news
With so much hype around artificial intelligence, and so much news around the impact fake news has via Facebook, I’m surprised no one has put them together.
I came across a share from a friend which was basically a fake (Kurt Cobane suggesting Trump would be president in 1993), so …
Fixing outlines on click
We know that a clear focus indicator is vital for people using a keyboard, so why do some website remove it? A little digging into how the browsers deal with it.
ARIA tabs, UI problems and standards
There have been a couple of articles on ARIA tabs recently, I pick up some specific points from both articles, analyse the interactions and suggest a way forward. Get off the Internet
In my last post I summarised why undermining (all) our security with intrusive laws is unhelpful. But what if it comes to pass? The best advice (and what I would try and do) is get off the Internet.
Laws that undermine security
The Draft Investigatory Powers Bill combines some previous laws and makes more explicit what the (UK) Government security services can do. That’s a good thing.
However, there are two areas where I think the bill will make life worse for us (UK citizens):
Undermining our security, for the general everyday…Subscription accessibility update
Back in 2006 I posted about 'subscription accessibility', where sites have to pay to enable accessibility features for users. It came up with a different service so I thought it worth re-considering.
Zoom for fixed and responsive sites
I also considered calling this "Why zoom sucks on mobile", as that is the biggest issue with zooming & web development.
To understand why I'll walk through the different ways zoom works on desktop and mobile.
ReCAPTCHA updated to no-CAPTCHA
Interesting post from Google on their update for reCAPTCHA, where they are replacing the current CAPTCHA method.