Imagine if, every Thursday, your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining.

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World’s First Universally Inaccessible Game!

Published: April 19th 2007

The Human Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCI Lab) at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) of the Foundation for Research and Technology (FORTH) has just announced the release of “Game Over!”, the world’s first universally inaccessible game!

The Laboratory, which carries out leading research activities focused on developing accessible user interfaces, developed the game as part of their Universally Accessible Games (UA-Games) research activity.

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A Musical Web

Published: April 18th 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about semantic markup lately and why it’s important.

In fact, I recently wrote an article entitled Semantics — Why Bother? on this very subject for Accessites. That started me thinking about XHTML and schemas in general and why it can sometimes be hard to get the concept of a semantic information system across.

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