Our latest and greatest of the news stories floating around to do with web accessibility http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webroundup Fri, 29 May 2009 13:00:00 GMT This years' SIGGRAPH offerings include HeadSPIN a remote teleconferencing facility that simulates the effects of eye gaze and the Pull-Navi, a navigation system that pulls the users ears, gently we hope to move them in the right direction. http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20090518006299&newsLang=en Trying to make your mind up about learning HTML 5 see what the industry experts have to say. http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/05/26/html-5-now-or-never/ Learn from the masters, the W3C is running an online training course on Mobile Web. If you want to try before you buy there is a free sample and demo. http://www.w3.org/2009/04/MobiWeb102/ A recent study by Jakob Nielsen showed that financial data on Investor relations sites is over complex and Individual investors need simpler summaries of data. 63 users across 3 continents were included in this study. http://www.useit.com/alertbox/ir.html The ElderGames play platform is designed to keep players mentally alert and encourage socialisation. A suite of games has been tested in Spain, Norway and the UK and commercial game companies have already expressed interest. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513121419.htm Joseph Dolson discusses the fourth principle of Robustness from the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. It's worth taking a look at the related articles on this subject. http://www.practicalecommerce.com/articles/1114-New-Accessibility-Guidelines-Part-IV-Robustness Socially Adjusted CAPTCHAs, Magnification and scrolling and Autoplay is bad for all users... http://www.abilitynet.org.uk/webroundup124