I might have mentioned before, the elder of my two children will be starting school next September, and we’ve had to apply for his school. There are a number of things you need to consider when you’re considering your son’s primary education, because you know it’s important (it’s one more thing that as a parent, [...]

Firstly, what gives me the right to propound my proposed public sector guidelines to you all? What makes me think I know more about accessibility than the WAI or the UK Cabinet Office? Nothing. What I do have is considerable experience and knowledge in the field of accessibility, and considerable experience and knowledge of working [...]

I’m not one of those people who is obsessed with true-crime books; nor do I stare for hours at grainy black-and-white photographs in some Marshall Cavendish partwork about horrific murders, trying to make out a dismembered limb or two. Nevertheless, for some reason I’ve got caught up in the whole Jack The Ripper genre, and [...]

As you may recall, the people behind Public Sector Forums (PSF) are facilitating the creation of a new group — “The Public Sector Web Managers’ Group” (PSWMG). It’s important to stress that it’s something that they are facilitating: they have emphasised that it isn’t going to be their group, it will be an independent entity [...]

This is the fifth of a five part series on system design, relying on my own experiences and knowledge from working both in the public and private sector. I have broken down my thoughts on system design into five distinct pieces: user requirements; development standards; usability, code-cutting, and testing and go-live (this article). Testing There [...]

This is the fourth of a five part series on system design, relying on my own experiences and knowledge from working both in the public and private sector. I have broken down my thoughts on system design into five distinct pieces: user requirements; development standards; usability, code-cutting (this article), and testing and go-live. Code should [...]

This is the third of a five part series on system design, relying on my own experiences and knowledge from working both in the public and private sector. I have broken down my thoughts on system design into five distinct pieces: user requirements; development standards; usability (this article), code-cutting, and testing and go-live. Developer Styles [...]

This is the second of a five part series on system design, relying on my own experiences and knowledge from working both in the public and private sector. I have broken down my thoughts on system design into five distinct pieces: user requirements; development standards (this article); usability, code-cutting, and testing and go-live. What sort [...]

This is the first of a five part series on system design, relying on my own experiences and knowledge from working both in the public and private sector. I have broken down my thoughts on system design into five distinct pieces: user requirements (this article); development standards; usability, code-cutting, and testing and go-live. What is [...]

I’m somewhat of an accessibility evangelist; I am passionately in favour of ensuring that websites are available to all, irrespective of disability. I include in this people using different platforms and different browsers, because I tend to think it’s unprofessional to design a site which only works properly half the time. Yet my development platform [...]