WEB DESIGN: Mei 2011

Rabu, 25 Mei 2011

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Selasa, 24 Mei 2011

Fixing Alt - Mr. Twitter

The next in our "Fixing Alt" series is the Mr. Twitter comic on Agent-X Comics. Here's the alternative text for yet another comic which lacks it. The alt and title attributes are both blank. Sad.

So here the text description:

Image: Two men standing by wall with poster of man with sunglasses, mustache and bow tie. The poster reads "Mr. Twitter, the master of impersonation. Tonight only."

Man 1: Why do they call him Mr. Twitter?

Man 2: Because he only does 140 characters.

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Minggu, 15 Mei 2011

Accessibility at Google IO 2011

So I attended the first day of Google I/O 2011, my first time at a Google event. I was glad to hear a fair amount of talk about accessibility. There were at least 3 sessions focusing on the topic (see below) and a breakout area where you can talk with developers.

There was even an accessibility "Developer Sandbox" area which was great. I tried out the ChromeVox screen reader on a Chromebook with help from Google's Rachel Shearer. I got a quick demo of the built-in TalkBack screen reader on an Android mobile device. Mika Pyyhkala and I were shown the LevelStar braille device running Android. The University of Washington showed off their mobile ASL Android project which used video chat technology.

Some tips for Android development from the sessions are:

In Android code, ensure images, especially ImageButtons, are labeled with contentDescription.
Use standard controls.
Stick with standard or modified views; custom very complex to make accessible.
Ensure all controls reachable with D-pad and Trackball.
Test with screen reader using D-Pad. To turn on, enable accessibility under Settings/Accessibility, then enable Talkback.
Take advantage of device's "many eyes and ears" for alternative input/output (microphone, speaker, touch screen, camera, GPS)

The sessions specific to accessibility were:

Accessibility: Building Products that Everyone Can Use by Brad Green, Erin Rosenthal (on YouTube)
Leveraging Android Accessibility APIs To Create An Accessible Experience by Charles Chen, T.V. Raman, Tim Credo (on YouTube)
Creating Accessible Interactive Web Apps using HTML5 by Dominic Mazzoni, Rachel Shearer (on YouTube)
Added via comment below: The YouTube Caption API, Speech Recognition, and WebVTT captions for HTML5 by Naomi Black, Cynthia Boedihardjo, Jeffrey Posnick (on YouTube)

More resources:

My Flickr album from Google I/O 2011
Google Accessibility Resources for developers and publishers: APIs, captioning, and standards
Android Developers - Designing for Accessibility
The official Google I/O 2011 announcements

Tim Credo, Charles Chen, and T.V. Raman on stage at Google I/O.

Senin, 09 Mei 2011

Accessibility Twitter Lists

A list of lists! Here are some great Twitter lists relating to accessibility.

Web Accessibility list by Me @WebAxe
Accessibility list by Michael Mistak @MichaelMistak
Accessibility list by Sandi Wassmer @SandiWassmer
Accessibility list by A11Y @A11Y
HTML5 Accessibility Task Force list by Laura Carlson @laura_carlson
Accessibility list by Angela Hooker @AccessForAll
Accessibility list by STCAccess @STCAccess
Bonus! This is interesting. Here's a Twitter list of blind users: Vision list by @STCAccess

Know any others?

Sabtu, 07 Mei 2011

Kinds of web hosting

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web hosting service provider that gives you a place on the internet that can be used as a place to promote your product and service so that you can get a lot of benefit from that. There are two common types of web hosting service features on the internet, the free and the paid types.

The free web hosting is a kind of web hosting that requires you no money to have it. What you need to do is to fill out the applications on the web hosting company and in a matter of minutes you will be able to have your own web. But this kind of web hosting will be different from the paid web hosting like
managed hosting. The different of free and paid web hosting will be on the feature it offers. The free one will only have one server to be shared with the other people while the paid web hosting, like we have in colocation, we will have our own server to host our web.

Senin, 02 Mei 2011

Resources for Writing for Web Accessibility

A large part of web accessibility is creating content which can be easily understood, and writing is often times an overlooked factor. Like coding a website, writing must account for a variety of user conditions and abilities. It's tricky! Here are some great articles to help.

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