Industry news

12 February 2007

Joe Clarke writes an open letter to Tim Berners-Lee

He recommends cancelling the WCAG 2.0 project

http://joeclark.org/

Dating websites fail disabled people

Our eNation report on dating websites hits the news.

http://www.computeractive.co.uk/

Computer-based exam discriminated against blind candidate

A qualifications body discriminated against a blind systems manager when it failed to make its computer-based exam accessible to her. The tribunal ruling is the first to find a US company with no presence in the UK liable under the UK's Disability Discrimination Act. AbilityNet played a vital role by providing an expert witness for the case.

http://www.out-law.com/

Information Design Conference 2007 - Greenwich, London, UK - 29 & 30 March

The Information Design Association in the UK is pleased to announce that IDC 2007 is now open for registration! The programme will offer a good mix of industry case-studies from design practitioners and their customers, and reports from researchers -- all selected for their relevance to the practical business of making information more usable and easy to understand.

http://www.informationdesignassociation.org/

Text to speech software

Rather interesting little bit of software. Type in the text and the avatar speaks it. I think if we took a good look at this we could come up with some accessibility solutions for websites.

http://www.oddcast.com/

Eye Gaze Patterns while Searching vs. Browsing a Website

This article discusses users' visual scan paths of web pages containing text and/or pictures while conducting browsing and searching tasks.

http://psychology.wichita.edu/

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