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15 October 2009 View Comments

Access IT Web 2.0 Winner – Accessible Twitter

Accessible Twitter is an alternative to the Twitter.com website. It is designed to be easier to use and is optimized for disabled users.
Firstly a huge well done to Accessible Twitter on winning the Web 2.0 ACCESS IT Award at a ceremony held at Microsoft London. I accepted the award on behalf of my Twitter friend [...]

27 August 2009 View Comments

Ministry of Defence

Website: defencedynamics.mod.uk
When I first heard about this project, 2 things sprung to mind:
1. Govenment related project – must be AA accessible
2. Educational project – must be AA accessible
So either way it was essential that Defence Dynamics was AA accessible and I had to make sure I had enough time to do all the XHTML and [...]

1 June 2009 View Comments

HTML5 Website – Cockpit Arts

With all the HTML 5 release excitement I really wanted to jump straight into it and get my hands dirty, thankfully I had that opportunity at ID Media London, a Digital Communications Agency I work for as an Interface Architect. The project is a campaign-based micro-site for Cockpit Arts – Makerdifference – A great yet [...]

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7 July 2008 View Comments

Basic Accessibility Testing

To begin with select a representative sampling of pages that match the following criteria:
Include all pages on which people are more likely to enter your site (“welcome page”, etc.). Include a variety of pages with different layouts and functionality, for example:

Web pages with tables, forms, or dynamically generated results
Web pages with informative images such as [...]

23 June 2008 View Comments

Which Web Accessibility Tool?

Since the departure of Watchfire’s free online Webxact Bobby tool it’s been pretty difficult to find another tool which will aid designers and developers to create brilliantly accessible websites. The Bobby tool used to allow users to scan, test, remediate and understand compliance with current accessibility legislation.