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02 October 2009
Nokia Braille Reader: Braille on your touch screen phone
Using tactile feedback, this new Nokia application converts sms content into Braille on the fly. Currently an experimental prototype, Nokia are looking for feedback and comments to help improve the service.
Finite Incantatem: Christian Heilmann's keynote at Accessibility 2
Christian dispels the notion that accessibility is a dark art and urges professionals to get involved at the grass roots level, making accessible practises the norm and not the exception.
Google's Chrome frame plugin for IE causing accessibility issues
The Chrome Frame is a plugin for Internet Explorer from Google, that seamlessly brings Google Chrome's open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to Internet Explorer
. Unfortunately there are some serious accessibility issues with it that Steve Faulkner discusses here.
iPlayer to carry 25 hours per week of audio described content
By augmenting existing audio streams with descriptions of key content (changes of location, facial expressions etc) audio descriptions can make tv shows more accessible to vision impaired users. Described by the RNIB as a major breakthrough and great leap forward for blind and partially sighted people.
10 in depth usability tips from Smashing magazine
It is quite possible to create a site that ticks all of the accessibility checkpoints and yet remains unusable. Ensuring usability, as well as accessibility, can be the difference between a site that is simply compliant, and one that is useful (and used!).
Accessibility Twitter roundup
Love it or hate it, Twitter is one of the quickest ways to disseminate (and thus pick up) news, in particular relating to anything technology related. Webaim compiled this list of 30 or so Twitter users that frequently tweet about what's hot in the accessibility world.
Ok \ Cancel button positioning
Another usability tip: a brief study on conventions of ok\cancel button positioning. Useful for those developing web applications.
Web Designer Depot Interview with Jakob Nielsen
Some useful tips, insights and background on usability from Jakob Nielsen.
Emotional design
The psychology of good design - affective vs cognitive responses, including a video excerpt with design critic Don Norman.
Webcredible's top tips on accessible audio\video
A few tips on catering for vision\mobility\hearing impaired users when providing multimedia content.
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