Category: "Usability & Accessibility"

Mozilla Ubiquity

Mozilla announced a new labs project, Ubiquity, last week. It's intended to be a keyboard driven interface to advanced functionality in the web browser, similar to Gnome Do, which I've been using a lot recently, and the Mac application Quicksilver. I… more »

WSG London Findability Meetup

Review: Web Standards Group London Meetup at Westminster University, New Cavendish Street campus, London 19:00 to 21:00 Concepts of Findability (Cyril Doussin) - This was a whirlwind tour of the subject of findability, mostly based on Peter Morville's A… more »

Web Development for the Blackberry Pearl

We had a potential client which wanted to use our web application on their Blackberry Pearl devices. I figured "How hard can it be?", downloaded an emulator and got cracking :) I wanted to make the standard pages support the Pearl, I didn't want to wri… more »

What is our legal exposure because of web accessibility laws?

I spent just over an hour and a half writing an email after one of the directors where I work asked this question. It occurs to me that most of what I said in the email had some general applicability and there may be other people out there getting asked… more »

WebDD07: Unobtrusive Javascript with Rails (Dave Verwer)

Review: Unobtrusive Javascript with Rails at WebDD Conference 07 15:40 to 16:40 This was the final talk of the day and I was flagging a bit, I'd originally planned to go to Scott Guthrie's WPFe talk, but that was packed out and, following Dave's stella… more »

WebDD07: Quick and dirty Usability tests (Zhivko Dimitrov)

Review: Quick and dirty Usability tests - one week, no budget, and no usability facility at WebDD Conference 07 12:00 to 13:00 I got "Don't make me think" for Xmas and so I've become quite interested in the concept of cheap usability testing, I was loo… more »
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