Posts Archive

1. WCAG 3 update - conformance September 2026
2. New website for AlastairC September 2026
3. AI and Accessibility presentation November 2025
4. WCAG 3, increment or overhaul? June 2025
5. CSUN 2025 conference notes March 2025
6. Cryptocurrency thoughts November 2024
7. Why doesn't AI work for producing accessible code? November 2023
8. Accessibility improvements for user-agents October 2023
9. Focus Appearance thoughts February 2023
10. WCAG - Priority of Constituencies December 2022
11. Overlay comments September 2022
12. Accessibility auditing and pushing for more February 2021
13. Sound and Vision quality November 2020
14. Brexit - letter to my MP September 2019
15. Oddities in color perception April 2019
16. Pixels vs Ems commentary August 2018
17. Firefox zoom preferences February 2018
18. Is text sizing dead? November 2017
19. EME Misdirection September 2017
20. London Accessibility Meetup #6 September 2017
21. EME at the W3C July 2017
22. The responsive order conflict for keyboard focus June 2017
23. Units for Media Queries - different conclusion April 2017
24. Graphics Contrast March 2017
25. Four levels of accessibility customisation February 2017
26. AI for Facebook fake-news November 2016
27. Fixing outlines on click September 2016
28. ARIA tabs, UI problems and standards May 2016
29. Get off the Internet February 2016
30. Laws that undermine security December 2015
31. Debian upgrade logrotate issue November 2015
32. Subscription accessibility update October 2015
33. Zoom for fixed and responsive sites October 2015
34. ReCAPTCHA updated to no-CAPTCHA December 2014
35. Flexbox IE11 bugs August 2014
36. CSUN 2014 round-up March 2014
37. CSUN: WCAG evaluation methodology March 2014
38. CSUN: The anatomy of an accessible app March 2014
39. CSUN: Mobile Testing With the Viking & the Lumberjack March 2014
40. CSUN: Crowdsourcing the Accessibility Awareness Problem March 2014
41. CSUN: Accessibility theory vs implementation reality March 2014
42. CSUN: Accessibility in an Agile World March 2014
43. CSUN: Unified Accessibility Evaluation Methodology March 2014
44. CSUN: sitecues March 2014
45. CSUN: Invisible Visualization: Accessible Information Graphics with Web Tech March 2014
46. CSUN: Browser zoom sucks for low vision users March 2014
47. CSUN: Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines March 2014
48. CSUN: Wordpress tweetup - accessible presentations March 2014
49. CSUN: Scaling Web Accessibility at Facebook March 2014
50. CSUN: Responsive design and accessible design March 2014
51. CSUN: International Association of Accessibility Professionals March 2014
52. CSUN: Improving accessibility without compromising user experience March 2014
53. CSUN 2014 prep March 2014
54. Use case for high-DPI zoom December 2013
55. Design bomb in W3C's garden October 2013
56. Browser zoom great for accessibility August 2013
57. UX Bristol 2013 August 2013
58. Peak Appification April 2013
59. How to hold your iPad February 2013
60. Screen resolution by ratio January 2013
61. Text size and screen ratios December 2012
62. In defence of pixels November 2012
63. Relative pixels April 2012
64. Open Rights Group Conference March 2012
65. Zooming bug in Webkit January 2012
66. Is HDR equivalent to eye exposure? January 2012
67. The "Open Web Stack" - Snappy acronym needed January 2011
68. PDF vs HTML for organisations January 2011
69. Bristol Council CMS discussion September 2010
70. Send to my... fridge? September 2010
71. Are browser-updates a thing of the past? May 2010
72. HTML5 and WAI-ARIA April 2010
73. Detecting touch-based browsing March 2010
74. Removing empty HTML tags from TinyMCE March 2010
75. SharePoint 2010 Accessibility Event November 2009
76. Stackoverflow dev day London - Roundup November 2009
77. ARIAs with Flash, Flex, and AIR September 2009
78. Techshare Keynote - Richard Schwerdtfeger September 2009
79. Music industry change September 2009
80. An unimportant hole in Section 508? July 2009
81. Usability Introduction - Baltics June 2009
82. Django - Local vs Live error April 2009
83. Is accessibility actually usability? April 2009
84. Window click throughs and scrolling February 2009
85. Local W3C validator on OSX February 2009
86. Home links verses logos October 2008
87. Google Chrome market share September 2008
88. .net standards champion September 2008
89. iPods get speech, Apple gets accessible September 2008
90. dConstruct 2008 notes September 2008
91. Strange sIFR / screen-reader bug July 2008
92. Dr Horrible's sing along blog July 2008
93. ABBR pattern accessibility June 2008
94. Nested conditional comments May 2008
95. Where SEO and accessibility collide May 2008
96. Adobe open Flash May 2008
97. Why I don't buy DRM (music) products April 2008
98. Galleries in Wordpress 2.5 April 2008
99. WCAG Samurai release errata February 2008
100. Font-based layouts becoming fashionable? February 2008
101. Email IA for the overloaded December 2007
102. Voiceover 2 - a WebDev's guide December 2007
103. My phone thinks I'm a geek November 2007
104. Accessibility findings vs recommendations November 2007
105. Voiceover HTML navigation updates November 2007
106. Applying a comments policy September 2007
107. Usability myths and professionals September 2007
108. If I'm never heard from again... September 2007
109. CSS - the antithesis of frameworks August 2007
110. Usability enhancements with JavaScript August 2007
111. Comparing Tagged PDFs from Office and Acrobat August 2007
112. Colour Contrast Visualiser - New Tool August 2007
113. Accessibility kit for Sharepoint August 2007
114. Office 2007 PDFs - Not (always) accessible July 2007
115. Responsibility for accessible content July 2007
116. IA and accessibility July 2007
117. Testing with a screen reader July 2007
118. XHTML disrupted by Mobile access June 2007
119. CMS editable Flash June 2007
120. @media 2007 June 2007
121. WCAG Samurai published at @media June 2007
122. Tabindex for keyboard accessibility May 2007
123. Closing the gap - User Agent improvements May 2007
124. Note on Non-HTML formats May 2007
125. Responsibilities in accessibility May 2007
126. Web mob is the new jury? May 2007
127. Upcoming relaunched April 2007
128. Powerpoint bad for your brain? April 2007
129. Domain woes April 2007
130. Automated PDF accessibility testing March 2007
131. SharePoint 2007 accessibility March 2007
132. .net does accessibility March 2007
133. Think ahead - Buy accessible March 2007
134. WYSIWYG editor spec - checklist February 2007
135. Accessibility vs Universality - implications February 2007
136. Dissecting CSS Polygons February 2007
137. Perceptions of page loading speed February 2007
138. WCAG 2 response on relative units February 2007
139. WYSIWYG editor spec - preventing problems February 2007
140. Firefox 3 accessibility February 2007
141. DRM degrading Windows January 2007
142. OpenID and trust January 2007
143. Elastic layout - wrong term? January 2007
144. Mobile GMail December 2006
145. WYSIWYG editor spec - interface accessibility December 2006
146. Reporting on accessibility issues December 2006
147. Why does google use CAPTCHA? December 2006
148. Criteria for using Web 2.0 December 2006
149. Depricate the address element? December 2006
150. WYSIWYG editor spec - layouts November 2006
151. Anti-spam, hopefully not anti-user November 2006
152. WYSIWYG editor spec - Tables November 2006
153. Fund raising for accessibility November 2006
154. Using label for phishing November 2006
155. Browser Zoom Comparison November 2006
156. Raising the bar of mobile browsing October 2006
157. WYSIWYG editor spec - images October 2006
158. Internet Apps Roadmap - Questions October 2006
159. Image replacement and Voiceover October 2006
160. Accessibility or Help links? October 2006
161. WYSIWYG editors spec - adding structural code October 2006
162. Identifying text-only nodes with CSS October 2006
163. Future of web accessibility October 2006
164. WYSIWYG editors spec - Importing CSS September 2006
165. Captions vs subtitles September 2006
166. WYSIWYG editor spec - allowed HTML September 2006
167. WYSIWYG editor spec - Overview September 2006
168. Accessible WYSIWYG editors part 1 - The problem August 2006
169. Internet Explorer bashing August 2006
170. Good use of "Web 2.0" technologies August 2006
171. Why CSS is important for accessibility August 2006
172. The potential of Voiceover August 2006
173. Expert usability participants July 2006
174. WCAG 2 - relative units July 2006
175. Proprietary software and OS choice July 2006
176. The four levels of PDF accessibility July 2006
177. Firefox 2 beta released July 2006
178. Online passport applications - not ready June 2006
179. Net neutrality under threat? June 2006
180. Tesco access updated - and criticised June 2006
181. CSS tables verses layout tables June 2006
182. Invalid HTML interfering with accessibility June 2006
183. Avoiding spam bounces June 2006
184. Accessible layouts May 2006
185. Conditional comments in CSS May 2006
186. Laser eye surgery - an experience May 2006
187. Subscription accessibility March 2006
188. Don't use sp*nsors March 2006