This article is my contribution to the Blogging Against Disablism Day 2012, an initiative from The Goldfish. Ok, it was on May 1st, but, uh, as the saying goes, better late than never. La suite
Being disabled: a matter of context
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Accessibility Certification: the Accessiweb Model
Cyndi Rowland of WebAIM wrote an excellent article, Accessibility Certification: The Devil is in the Details, about the possibility of an accessibility certificate for professionals who seek recognition as per their expertise. I encourage you to read the whole article. It highlights key issues, that will deserve close scrutiny.
I commented on the article to describe their experience regarding certification, which can certainly bring an interesting viewpoint about certification traps and pitfalls. The current article is the copy of this contribution, slightly adapted for the blog’s format. La suite
How we could build a Body of Knowledge for Web Accessibility
It is now a well-accepted assumption that, in order to move forward, accessibility needs a unified set of resources that would be reliable, comprehensive, and easy to consume for users of all levels of proficiency in accessibility. There have been many discussions around this idea for a while. Yet, so far, it does not exist, for a disappointingly simple reason: nobody started it yet. And I’m afraid that, in the current state of things, nobody has the ability to start it the way it should be started. This article exposes the reasons why I believe so. But, moreover, it also explores some ideas and propositions that could change this state of things.
Assistive Technology is for everybody
Just read a great article, A New Way to Think about Assistive Technology, from the Bookshare Blog, about how we can change people’s view about what AT actually is, and by extension, what disability is. La suite
Little action, great effects: improving a CSS-based tooltip in 18 seconds.
Reading this blog post about designing fancy tooltips with CSS3 tricks, I did my usual first-step test: hit the tab key and see what happens. Disappointingly, and yet expectedly (I’ve been in this business for too long, it seems…): nothing happened, apparently, when I reached the first icon
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