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By Peter Abrahams November 25, 2011
I recently wrote an article about the new iPhone 4S accessibility. Having continued to use it I am still impressed by its accessibility features. However...
By Peter Abrahams November 18, 2011
Amongst the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) is guideline 2.3 that says ‘Do not design content in a way that is known to...
By Peter Abrahams November 11, 2011
The iPhone 4 and iOS 4 combined to create a highly accessible smart phone. iPhone 4S and iOS 5 have added new features that improve...
By Peter Abrahams September 08, 2011
The human race is spending more and more time inputting information into electronic devices of all types. So it is important that we find easier,...
By Peter Abrahams August 22, 2011
Why would a blind person go into a library? Maybe to borrow a book in Braille, or more likely to borrow a talking book, CD...
By Peter Abrahams August 19, 2011
I wrote an article about new accessibility features in Apple OS X 10.7, Lion, just before it was available, I have been running Lion on...
By Peter Abrahams June 20, 2011
Apple has announced the next version of OS X, the operating system for Macs, called Lion. It has 250+ new features, including 11 specific accessibility...
By Peter Abrahams March 24, 2011
About 2 years ago I pointed out to Mozilla development that it was very difficult to find add-ons that were relevant to accessibility. The basic...
By Peter Abrahams March 18, 2011
I have written articles over the years praising Apple for taking accessibility very seriously and enthusing on how it has been integrated into Apple products...
By Peter Abrahams January 31, 2011
I recently set up a contact group in my Apple Mac address book. I wanted to distribute a document with the names, telephones and email...
By Peter Abrahams January 12, 2011
In December 2010 the British standards Institute (BSi) published “Web accessibility – Code of practice (BS 8878:2010)”. This document is based on, and replaces, “PAS...
By Peter Abrahams December 08, 2010
In October, Martha Lane Fox, UK Digital Champion, wrote to Francis Maude, Minister for the Cabinet Office and Paymaster General, with the results of a...
By Peter Abrahams December 02, 2010
For anyone with a disability, navigating a website is likely to take longer than it would for a fully able person. If you have very...
By Peter Abrahams November 23, 2010
Adobe have recently started shipping Adobe Reader X (pronounced ten) with some interesting new features. In previous versions of the Reader it was only possible...
By Peter Abrahams November 17, 2010
I recently wrote a blog ‘Fix The Web Campaign for reporting web accessibility issues‘ that describes a new method for reporting web accessibility issues on...
