I noted on the BBC‘s Education part of their news site that a school teacher was asking the Education for the right to use Creationist educational materials. Okay, so after reading the first paragraph, my jaw was bouncing off the floor, but by the end of the article it sounded like a remarkably sound idea, [...]

I had been planning on taking another little look at what was happening with the old Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) over the next week or so but gosh darn it, Joe Clark has beaten me to it (which reminds me, have you donated any money to his micropatronage project yet?). Very well, rather than [...]

A while ago, I posted an “atheists are bigots” post, reflecting my feelings on comments on the BBC’s website suggesting that religious people were backward and religions shouldn’t be allowed. Of course, the post should really have been entitled “atheists are just as capable of being bigots as anyone else” but that would have been [...]

Originally posted on State Of The Game, the independent football website to visit. It was almost thirty years ago (December 1976) that The Sex Pistols burst onto the scene, declaring that they were anarchists. Let’s just stop for a moment to reflect on that: the punk movement is thirty years old. It probably has two [...]

Rosie Sherry has written an article called Showing Web Accessibility Statements The Door which I first came across on an article on Accessify.com and which I’m going to quote extensively from here. In it, she argues that accessibility statements found on websites aren’t really of much benefit, and we’d maybe be better off without them. [...]

This article is the third in a series of three where I look at some quick and easy tests that can be carried out to help determine whether or not a site is likely to be accessible. Of course, passing all of these tests wouldn’t guarantee that your site is accessible, but I think if [...]

This article is the second in a series of three where I look at some quick and easy tests that can be carried out to help determine whether or not a site is likely to be accessible. Of course, passing all of these tests wouldn’t guarantee that your site is accessible, but I think if [...]

One of the things I’ve been doing at work recently is to work on a web checklist, the idea of which is to provide some quick and easy tests for someone other than the developer to carry out. Reading through it, it occurred to me that something along pretty much the same lines might be [...]

Is it because the W3C aren’t able to recognise the needs of the wider community? Is it because they’re not representative of the wider community? Is it because they barely acknowledge the wider community? Yes, yes and yes.

I was reading an article on Accessites on Dyslexia today which went beyond the usual “this is how to make things more readable for people with dyslexia” and actually looked into what dyslexia actually is. One particular thing compared the way that the differences in the language you are learning may be related to your [...]