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Santa Is A Silver Surfer
Much of the primary focus of accessible web design is often on relatively young users with clearly defined medical conditions such as little or no vision or an inability to use their hands. But what about the older population — many of whom have progressively deteriorating abilities? At this time of year, we’re surrounded by [...]
Text Sizes and Screen Resolution
According to clickdensity, there appears to be a link between user screen resolutions and text size settings. Users with low screen resolutions (such as 640 x 480) appear to be more likely to use large text compared with larger resolutions of 800 x 600 or above.
Free Copy of PAS 78 Back Again
A copy of PAS 78: a guide to good practice in commissioning accessible websites was previously available on the web site of the Disability Rights Commission (DRC). However, on October 1st 2007, the DRC joined forces with the Equal Opportunities Commission and the Commission for Racial Equality to form a new body – the Equality [...]
NoSquint
Following on from discussions about text-sizing widgits on sites, I just been told about a new Firefox extension that might help the less confident users who are wary of using Firefox’s “View > Text size” option. NoSquint is a Firefox extension that allows you to adjust the default text zoom level, which is very useful [...]
Support And Educate
Grant Broome has recently expressed some reservations over the suggestion that site developers abandon text-sizing widgits in favour of educating users instead. He’s worried that this approach is overly biased Personally, I don’t see this discussion as particularly biased. More of a natural maturing within the web accessibility development sector. For years, we’ve been aware [...]
CAPTCHAs Shut Out Blind Users
If anyone still has doubts about the problems that visual CAPTCHAs can create, I suggest that they check out a video produced by the American Federation for the Blind (AFB). Entitled “CAPTCHAs on Social Networking Sites Shut Out Blind Users“, the video presents a very compelling case against purely visual challenges. However, as the video [...]