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Is Accessibility Conformance an Elusive Property?
Well we undertook a study of validity and reliability of WCAG 2.0 and found that an 80% target for agreement is not attainable, when audits are conducted without communication between evaluators. Even...
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An Online Health & Social Support System for People With Lung Cancer
Or rather - "A cross-disciplinary approach to identifying requirements for an online health and social support system for people with lung cancer". This was our submission to the ACM ASSETS 2012...
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The Uptake of Web 2.0 Technologies, and its Impact on Visually Disabled Users
Our analysis shows that for the most popular 500 sites, JavaScript is used in 93%, Flash in 27% and about one-third (30%) use XMLHttpRequest, a technology used to generate dynamic updates. Uptake of...
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Adapting Interfaces to Suit Our Senses
A few weeks ago I gave a presentation at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) at the Technical University of Lisbon (UTL) in Lisbon. It was about Deep Accessibility and how we should think about...
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Let’s Hangout at ASSETS 2012
This year at the W4A we used USTREAM to broadcast everything to anybody who wanted to see. We got generally good responses and 20% of the audience was (at some points) watching online. The only...
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Accessibility at Apple – One Year On
Friday, October 5 2012 marked the one-year anniversary of the passing of Steve Jobs, Apple’s visionary CEO that brought the iPod, iPhone, iPad and a bevy of other devices into the world. Jobs and Apple...
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Analysing the visual complexity of web pages using document structure
Briefly, counting the number of visible edges on a web page is a good indicator of the perceived complexity of a web page. There is a lot more to it than this obviously... Continue reading →
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Funded PhD in Lung Cancer and HCI
Yes it sounds strange but a key to lung cancer survival is early presentation to health services and evidence shows this can be influenced by information from various sources. The internet is a...
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W4A – Are You Ready?
We are fast approaching the paper deadline for the 10th Web For All (W4A) Conference. Time to get those papers, communications, demo's, and student papers polished - because this year we'll be partying...
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Attention Approximation: from the Web to multi-screen television
Humans are approximate creatures, we aren't precise, and if this blog is anything to go by, we aren't concise either! So then why do we persist in pursuing work which is ever more precise using tools...
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Defocus to Refocus
The world is becoming evermore precise - well at least our desire to measure it, quantify it, model it with ever more precision. But it's time to step back and think just what these models are intended...
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Pecha Kucha – WTF!
Pecha Kucha, WTF! Well that's what I thought when hearing we would have to present in this session at Web Science 2013. Turns out PechaKucha 20x20 is a simple presentation format where you show 20...
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