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NoCoffee – Vision Simulator for Chrome | Access Garage
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Aaron Leventhal's accessibility blog. NoCoffee – Vision Simulator for Chrome. Vision problems are more pervasive than most of us realize. Upwards of 285 million people worldwide are visually impaired. Many more have low or moderate visual difficulties. The number in the U.S. is expected to double by 2020. Due to the aging of the baby boomer generation. NoCoffee is a free extension for Chrome ( download link. Many non-technical users do not know how. Other: Visual snow, glare and ghosting. Obstructed visu...
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Mozilla and AEGIS | Access Garage
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Aaron Leventhal's accessibility blog. Last week I had the chance to present to the AEGIS Project. The size of AEGIS means it can be help bring much higher quality and more innovations in the open accessibility space. My concern for AEGIS has been, how will they manage it all usefully? My biggest question coming in was, where will AEGIS cross-pollinate with the current open accessibility community and Mozilla’s efforts? Or at least some of the ideas in it, like in-application selection. Next Post ». Inter...
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Aaron Leventhal's accessibility blog. June 13, 2009. This morning on the way to market in Esslingen, Germany, I discovered a new family of swans, living in a canal that leads through the center of town. The mother and father swans were there with their 3 cygnets, looking something about like this. Other waterfowl live there as well, including a graceful blue heron. Comments Off on Cygnet in peril. How to hack your app to make contenteditable work. May 8, 2009. Note: this article has been updated several ...
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Cross-browser <video> | Access Garage
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Aaron Leventhal's accessibility blog. My colleague Matt Mastracci from DotSpots has just released support for the HTML 5 video tag across browsers. Legacy browsers are also supported. Please see Matt’s post HTML 5 video support for older browsers. Kudos both to Matt and to our employer DotSpots. For supporting web standards. This entry was posted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 at 8:19 am and is filed under Mozilla. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. Laquo; Previous Post.
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Why a WAI-ARIA Developer Portal is Important | Access Garage
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Aaron Leventhal's accessibility blog. Why a WAI-ARIA Developer Portal is Important. Making dynamic web content accessible is a huge challenge. WAI-ARIA is the best available solution today. It’s supported in all major browsers and enables almost any dynamic content to be made accessible — that’s great. Accessibility is really important. But man oh man, understanding WAI-ARIA is not easy for developers, who aren’t always born as accessibility experts. That doesn’t mean it will actually be accessible.
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On user experience, usability, and access. Archive for the 'inspiration' Category. What Keeps You From Blogging? Tuesday, March 24th, 2009 No Comments. I found symmetry in the kick-off and closure of the Information Architecture (IA) Summit 2009. I asked Indi Young, author of. Mental Models: Aligning Design Strategy with Human Behavior. For advice for UX Designers tending their careers. Young suggested:. Be a strong persuader. Be able to form and articulate opinions quickly, and believe in those opinions.
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On user experience, usability, and access. Archive for the 'wordpress' Category. Recovering from a WordPress Spam Injection. Posted in web development. Saturday, December 5th, 2009 No Comments. I should have been relaxing and working on an inspirational side project, but instead spent much of Thanksgiving weekend trying to eliminate a senseless spam injection on a WordPress (wp) site. The site never loads. Loading stalls and then redirects to a virus scanner software. For the first few days, the injectio...
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On user experience, usability, and access. Archive for the 'usability' Category. Designing for People Who Struggle with Reading and Attention. Wednesday, May 9th, 2012 No Comments. I had the honor of presenting once again at the UPA Boston User Experience Conference. My slides are embedded below, but I encourage you to view the slides on SlideShare. As the transcript of the talk is included in the ‘Notes’ tab below the slides. Designing for People Who Struggle with Reading and Attention. HL Chace, 1956.
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On user experience, usability, and access. Archive for the 'prototypes' Category. Glassblower Site Redesign Prototype: Request for Feedback. Saturday, November 22nd, 2008 2 Comments. I’ve been working with Bob and Nancy of Robert Burch Glass to redesign their site. Create a current, lasting look and feel that shows off the quality of the glasswork. Make the site easy for Bob and Nancy to update. Add online purchasing to the site. Full-time and freelance job opportunities:.
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On user experience, usability, and access. Book Review: Confessions of a Public Speaker. December 30th, 2009 No Comments. I absorbed Scott Berkun’s. Confessions of a Public Speaker. O’Reilly) during the four days after Christmas (amidst the bizarre humidity and noise of an indoor Boston water park with my family). Berkun grabbed and held my attention with amusing stories and solid advice that resonated with my presenting experiences, good and bad. Book Review: Web Form Design: Filling in the Blanks.
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