Subtle Exposure: Making Accessibility Mainstream

Making one's business or organization accessible to customers, employees, and others is essential -- but that accessibility needs to come through in a natural way. To me,…Read more

A PSA on Creating Accessible PDFs

In a recent blog post, I discussed how CAPTCHA…Read more

Discourage Bots Not Humans - CAPTCHA Challenges to Accessibility

The Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart – otherwise known as CAPTCHA – is the bane of my online existence.

This is not to…Read more

Accessibility Matters - The Value of the Right Script

I am an advocate for accessible design by mainstream developers – I appreciate when everything I need works and is labelled nicely. But I've recently discovered that even…Read more

Key Non-Visual Signs for Visually Impaired Online Navigators

Following Jay's post, I've been thinking a lot about what "sign posts" I…Read more

Application Shows Promise in 'Lending' a Set of Eyes to Visually Impaired Users

I can do all manner of things independently – attend school, participate in clubs and extra-curriculars, work, go to Starbucks, and any number of run-of-the-mill tasks one…Read more

Prioritizing One Group Over Another is Bad Accessibility

I seldom appreciate the thought of someone else making decisions on my behalf. But this is particularly concerning when these decisions relate to accommodations of my…Read more

Headlining Reasons to Think Ability First

Last Friday morning, at the Ability First's Champion Awards breakfast, I was in the company of enlightened people…Read more

Accessibility, Ability First Makes Champions of Us All

Tomorrow morning, we'll be attending the Ability…Read more

The Give and Take of Accessibility

Did you know that not all guidelines of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 are required under the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA…Read more

Experiencing the Web as a Near Totally Blind User - First-Hand Accessibility Part I

I've talked in detail about specific accessibility improvements that affect me directly as a blind computer user. In a new series that I'm starting this week I want to…Read more

Accessibility Matters - Exploring the Hows and Whens of Alternative Text

The most frustrating part of accessing the web as a blind user, in my opinion, is images. Whether they're infographics or pictures used to add a visual element to an…Read more