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I remember the first time I closed my eyes, put on a pair of headphones and browsed the web using a screen reader. It was extremely challenging. Images without ALT attributes, Flash objects, and poorly coded websites left me feeling extremely frustrated and gave me even more empathy for web users with visual impairments. […]
The University of Michigan’s Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor is apparently in violation of the American’s with Disabilities Act. A letter sent to the University of Michigan by the U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights (OCR) (6MB PDF) informed the university that three complaints had been filed alleging that the stadium is […]
via the Official Google Blog:
Web Search: Result pages include headers to delineate logical sections.
Accessible Search: Promotes results that are accessible.
Book Search: Full-text access to public-domain works.
Gmail: A simple yet functional HTML mode that works well with screenreaders.
Gmail Mobile: A lightweight user interface that is also speech-friendly.
Google Maps: Easy-to-use […]
Blackboard had an amazing booth at the NASPA/ACPA Joint Meeting in Orlando. It was the size of small house and it looked like one too! Inside their mini-mansion, the folks from Blackboard were demoing their portal solution, the Blackboard Community System.
My first question to the Blackboard representative, upon seeing that the demo utilized frames, […]
The University of Tennessee recently re-designed their primary web pages. The new page design is very accessible, user-friendly, aesthetically pleasing and it’s optimized for search engines. Pages were coded using standards-based design techniques. Their use of cascading style sheets to “style” the homepage is gorgeous and accessible for users with visual impairments. Kudos to […]
…now, touch your computer screen.
Could you tell the bills apart? Was there any way to differentiate each denomination?
They all feel the same. The 20 dollar bill feels just like a 1 dollar bill. The 10 dollar bill feels just like a 20 dollar bill. This is what it’s like for folks who are visually […]
From the Official Google Blog:
World Usability Day, November 14, 2006, is for everyone who’s ever asked these questions. This Earth Day style event, focused on raising awareness and visibility of usability engineering and user centered design, is currently being organized by volunteers and local event coordinators from around the world. Whether a usability professional […]
Giving presentations on web usability and web accessibility at conferences and workshops: 9
Talking about web standards and web accessibility at meetings: 1,476
Adding ALT attributes to images and testing Flash to see if it really can be compatible with screenreaders: 2,322+
Working on websites to ensure that they are accessible for all users: 11
Hearing my colleagues […]
Here’s an article from the Portland Business Journal about some of the work that I have been involved with during my OSU graduate assistantship. The nice thing about search engine optimization is that you increase your page rank while also increasing your site’s accessibility. I think this article will drive a few more visitors […]
The official title of my OSU Graduate Assistantship is “Student Affairs Web Specialist.” Here are a few of the projects that I have worked on since I arrived in Corvallis in 2004.
OSU Admissions old
When I first started my assistantship at OSU, the Admissions web site looked like this:
The site was in need of an […]