Posts Tagged ‘ design ’

Some flotsam from the TwitterSea:via GrayBit v2.0 is a Grayscale Conversion Contrast Accessibility Tool. Basically, it converts a web page to grayscale so you can see how much (or little) contrast is in the page design. Contrast is important for readability, a key accessibility for the visually impaired. What’s GrayBit Do? GrayBit is an...
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As seen on the Talking Books Librarian, the American Foundation for the Blind’ is conducting a Survey on Small Screen Visual Displays at http://www.afb.org/Section.asp?Mode=Survey&SurveyID=101. Taken from the website: AFB TECH, the technology arm of the American Foundation for the Blind, is currently working to establish standards to improve the readability of small screen visual...
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Dean, over at Bushido Designs, has responded to my call for an accessible WordPress theme. In a recent post, Surprise! Your “semantic, accessible, search engine friendly” WordPress theme is none of the above, Dean announced his development and release of the initial version of the Access theme. Among other things, the themes is designed...
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To many people, web site accessibility involves screen readers. Well, not all the visually impaired were created equal. Consequently, there needs to be a variety of routes to accessibility. For me, and many others, simple changes are all that is necessary to make a site readable. Most often, easily adjustable font and color schemes...
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CEO, CFO, CIO. What about a CAO? The Chief Accessibility Officer would coordinate and oversee all company accessibility issues. The CAO would ensure that disabled employees, investors and consumers would all have reasonable access  to their relevant sections of the company. Currently, these issues are covered,if at all, sporadically and in isolation. A human...
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I strongly believe that there is a burgeoning market for what might be called intermediate accessibility in product design. Too often, the term accessibility is related only to those with profound lack of access. When we think of people in need of accessibility, we think of the profoundly deaf or blind and those restricted...
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Most of the ways people find this blog is through web searches. One of the most popular search terms that bring visitors here is “high contrast cell phones” that directs them to this post. Surprisingly, to me anyway, this is the first entry that Google lists for this search term. However, my post is...
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Following up on my earlier post about the lack of accessible Vista themes and my current feelings on standard internet color schemes, I posted the following to the accessible Google Group: Alternative Google Color Schemes – accessible | Google Groups< For the visually impaired, Google’s (as well as MS and most websites) color scheme...
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This is what a bad website looks like after I have set the font sizes so that I can read them. This is from Audible.com. If you find this post useful or interesting, please consider buying me a cup of coffee.
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Slashdot, the “News for Nerds” site I referenced in a n earlier post, is on the accessibility hot seat in this column, Why blind users can’t register at Slashdot, from Maccessibility, a blog aimed at Mac web developers. Slashdot, among a lengthening list of other sites, requires users to type in text read from...
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