Archive for the 'Accessibility' Category

WAVE

Posted by Tommy on 11 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Accessibility, Web Development

Not Google wave, but a free web accessibility evaluation tool from Webaim. Particularly useful for those of us working on Intranets as it can be installed as a Firefox add-on.
http://wave.webaim.org/

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Content owner apathy

Posted by Tommy on 20 Jan 2010 | Tagged as: Accessibility, Humor, Usability, Web Development

[Rant alert.]
My focus is mostly Intranets, however I sit next to our Web Team so often hear their grumblings of discontent, therefore I fairly confident what I am about to write translate to the world wide web as well.
We rely on subject experts to create and write content, often these subjects experts are policy officials [...]

CAPTCHA if you can

Posted by Tommy on 10 Jan 2008 | Tagged as: Accessibility, Usability, Web Development

Internet security is always top of the agenda and new security technology is continually being released. Although first coined in 2000 CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing test to tell Computers and Humans Apart) technology has only really become more prominent over the last couple of years. CAPTCHA attempts to distinguish between a computer and human [...]