AbilityNet is hosting a free event in London to mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2013. Inclusive Design: Where Accessibility Meets Usability will feature speakers including Robin Christopherson and Julie Howell, followed by a panel that includes Jeremy Keith, Ian Hamilton and Meera Pankhania.
AbilityNet is the UK's leading expert on digital accessibility working with some of the UK's largest companies to deliver digital content and services that reach every customer on every platform. We also work with a network of over 6,000 IT professionals, who provide IT support to charities and not for profits through our IT4Communities service.
Inconsistent use of alt text is one of the most common problems found in our web audits. These golden rules make your alt tags more useful to your site visitors and mean your site is more likely to be legally compliant. These rules are aimed at content editors but may also be useful for anyone producing content on the web.
Whether you use PDFs for sales information, factsheets, newsletters or any other form of communication, AbilityNet can ensure that they are accessible to the broadest range of users. Not addressing this issue could mean that your customers can't access your downloads, and as well as the impact on your marketing that could mean that your site fails to comply with relevant legal requirements.
Everybody Technology: Free Accessibility event in London
Everybody Technology
2-5pm, Friday 30 November
Grosvenor Hotel, Victoria, London SW1W 0SJ
AbilityNet is supporting a free event for the designers and developers who are building the technology of tomorrow. Organised by Royal London Society for Blind People the event looks at the emerging trend of mainstream technology that can meet the needs of 100% of the population, and features an inspiring range of speakers and participants:
Appily Ever After: Robin Christopherson's speaker notes from FOWA 2012
AbilityNet's Head of Digital Inclusion, Robin Christopherson, presented at Future of Web Apps and Mobile in London in October. A video of the full presentation will be available shortly.
AbilityNet Head of Digital Inclusion Robin Christopherson spoke at Future of Web Apps in London on 16 October 2012 - here's a quick preview of one part of his talk.
Robin is Head of Digital Inclusion and part of the globally-acclaimed accessibility and tech team of AbilityNet and has spoken at numerous events in recent years. Robin is himself blind but effortlessly enthrals the audience with deft demonstrations of good and bad practice in website and mobile accessibility.
Stephen Fry supports AbilityNet's Look No Hands! campaign
Look No Hands! Text With Your Toes...
Inclusive Design: Free Event, 9 May 2013
AbilityNet joins Helplines Association
