Age Literature: Age-Related Functional Limitations Getting older can result in: Vision issues: Decreasing ability to focus on near tasks Changes in colour perception and sensitivity: blues/greens become harder to see then reds/yellows and dark blue/black can be indistinguishable Pupils get smaller so less light gets in (well, I never knew that!) — 80 year old [...]

On the 14th May 2008, the W3C produced a document called Web Accessibility for Older Users: A Literature Review. Well, what can I say to that but Fogey-tastic! I’m a firm believer in that old TBL quote: The power of the web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential [...]

A phrase you might have come across, if you’ve looked into disability issues at all, particularly as they relate to the web, or you’ve looked at the topic of web accessibility is people who are sometimes termed internet disabled. Now this isn’t an official term (at least, so far as I know), but from the [...]

Yes, as my piscine chum the Goldfish has reminded me, we’re getting close to Blogging Against Disablism Day 2008. Or BADD 2008, if you want to be as cool as … I dunno … New Kids On The Block, or MC Hammer or suchlike. If you’d like to take part in Blogging Against Disablism 2008, [...]

Many thanks to the RNIB WAC blog for this spot… This is an ad for Pepsi, it’s made by deaf members of the PepsiCo workforce (part of a group called enAble). Pepsi showed this during a commercial break at the Superbowl. And to me, they’ve not done this because the advert is written by a [...]

I think that a lot of non-disabled people are frightened by the language of disability. They’re worried about saying the wrong thing: using the term “handicapped” rather than “person with a disability”, worrying whether they will cause offense if they say “see you later” to a blind person and so on. For the most part [...]

Okay, I know this report came out a little while ago, but I’ve been too busy with other stuff (working with the PSWMG to contribute to an accessibility supplement for SOCITM’s Better Connected report, amongst other things) and it’s been a while since I’ve had the opportunity to consider accessibility issues here. So now I’m [...]

Or to put another way “what century are we in again?” I accept that I probably know more about disability rights than most of my non-disabled friends, because of my interest in web accessibility, my passion for equality of opportunity (including as it relates to race, gender, sexual preference and the like), but even so, [...]

This is going to be somewhat of a long post about accessibility, about a lawsuit that relates to accessibility, and to the attitudes of people towards disability. It’s therefore going to touch on legal matters and technical matters, but mainly it’s going to be around the arguments around different attitudes towards accessibility/disability issues and the [...]

Sometimes being someone who is committed to web accessibility feels like it’s not a good thing. You get the feeling people feel you’re some kind of zealot (even if you aren’t); you get the feeling that other people think that when you raise the issue of accessibility you’re being awkward or causing problems, that it’s [...]