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 [...]

Well, okay, it’s not quite that simple. But I was still somewhat shocked this morning when I was browsing through the BBC Tyne News site and discovered that… Young people in the North East are being given the chance to win a holiday if they get themselves tested for a sexually transmitted disease.BBC Tyne News [...]

I went to see Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull this weekend, and took the two kiddies, who as usual wanted to sit right at the front of the cinema so they could lean forward in their seats, utterly enthralled at the film unfolding before it, even though they would probably have [...]

I’ve been reading John O’Farrell’s book An Utterly Impartial History Of Britain, and I’m quite some way through it. Basically, it covers the period from 43 A.D. (or thereabouts) to 1945, and I’ve reached the end of the First World War, so I think I should in a reasonable position to make some judgements of [...]

This is probably going to become something of a regular feature, given that I’m going to be journeying on our rail networks quite regularly in my new job. And in it, I’m basically going to castigate my fellow travellers on the rail networks. Call me a cynical, intolerant bastard if you will (and I’m sure [...]

It’s been a while, and as I’d not cleaned out my site’s spam filter for a while, there were quite a few spam messages in there, so I thought it was about time to poke through the detritus on the filters. It’s a dirty job, being a spam-filter tosher, but someone has to do it. [...]

In short: WCAG 2.0 is here, it’s ready, now get on and use it. Focus on the User One of the main things I’ve noticed about WCAG 2.0 (and which has been the case for several versions now) is that it is much more focussed on the user and how the user interacts with the [...]

There are 21 triple-A success criteria for WCAG 2.0. The WCAG 2.0 document itself specifies that AAA conformance should not be mandated for entire sites as: …it is not possible to satisfy all Level AAA Success Criteria for some contentWCAG 2.0 Note that during the earlier working draft stage of this documentation it was proposed [...]

Part 3 of the look at WCAG 2.0 is going to look at the handful of criteria which make up Level AA. Here then, are the lucky 13.