Today’s the last day to register online for the Flashbelt conference that’s going on at the U’s McNamera Center next week.
If you still can’t decide if you want to go, there might be a few passes available for walk up pricing, but that’s $100 more.
This is going to be the best flash conference that Minneapolis [...]
Spring is here. It appears everyone is outside now instead of posting to MNteractive. I don’t blame them.
It’s been awhile since I’ve posted an actual web-centric topic. So, here’s one about some recent accessibility related sites I’ve come across.
Just Ask: Integrating Accessibilty Throughout Design is a blandly named, but useful online book about accessibile design [...]
While we wait for a trial and verdict on whether or not Target is justified in refusing to accept blind people as customers, a different judge on the other side of the country has decided that US currency violates the law due to the fact that it’s inaccessible to blind people.
I’ve always wondered why US [...]
UPDATE: Joe Clark in the comments was right. Too many negatives got me confused. Target’s motion to dismiss the case was rejected. The case is proceeding.
Thanks Joe.
In February of this year, a lawsuit was filed against our own Target.com for being inaccessible:
“The complaint cites various problems with Target.com: alt-text is missing from images, [...]
By now, interactive writers everywhere have heard the bad news: we’re writing for people who don’t want to read. Online users don’t slowly digest our carefully crafted prose as we once hoped. By and large, they don’t linger over our clever turns of phrase and insightful flights of fancy. They skim and scan, impatient to [...]
Google recently launched yet another new product. This one is actually a search tool (a departure from their stream of recent non-search related product launches).
Google’s Accessible Search site is a search interface for Google that returns pages that are ranked by how accessible the pages are to blind/visually impaired users. You can read more about [...]
A ZDNET blogger wrote a post today talking about the Target Accessibility lawsuit. I thought that this would be a nice time to bring up the lawsuit again and maybe get some new information about the case.
But then I started reading it.
Ugh.
It’s bad enough that our elected officials have very little technical knowledge and pass [...]
A while back I commented on Hangover Navigation–my new preferred term for javascript based fly-out navigation. I really hate fly-out navigation 90% of the time. It’s often a pain to use–even for abled bodied folks, very often completely inaccessible, can actually add to user confusion, and rarely offers decent wayfinding devices.
All that said, there are [...]
The San Francisco Chronicle reports on a blind UC Berkeley student’s lawsuit against Target regarding the fact that their website is inaccessible to the blind.
They’re hoping to turn this into a class action lawsuit.
The article mentions 1.3 million people in the US suffering from vision loss. It’s a shame corporations don’t see that number as [...]
Whenever the topic of accessibility comes up amongst web designers, there’s always a few who insist on seeing some numbers. The argument usually consists of ‘why should I do X to accomodate the small insignificant group Y’. Of course, this fails to take into consideration the fact that accessibility isn’t specifically about accomodating some minority [...]