How accessible are the high street websites
Webcredible have just produced a report on 20 UK retail websites. The results are interesting, the methodology is even more interesting.
The accessibility blog contains short pieces of news and thoughts on accessibility and usability. Accessibility covers making all of ICT easier to use by people with disabilities and challenges and how to make peoples lives easier by the use of ICT. Deeper examination of product and supplier matters appear in Peter Abrahams publications and articles for Bloor Research.
MDM innovation is alive and well and living in France
Give the flurry of acquisitions in the master data management (MDM) market in the last year or so, you may be forgiven for thinking that the market was beginning to mature. However...
Performance-driven compression
Netezza has announced compression that is as much or more about performance as it is about compression.
Second Life is now too important not to be accessible
Commercial business events now take place in Second Life but they are not accessible. Why is this a problem and are there any answers?
Amazon Kindle for people with disabilities
Kindle, the new electronic book reader from Amazon, will aid accessibility for some disability groups but most groups will have to wait for a future version.
Kindle and Surface new interfaces accessible? Usable?
Two new interfaces paradigms have been announced recently. What are the implications for accessibility? Surface is looked at in detail in this blog and Kindle in the next.
HMRC goes public on accessibility
HMRC serves all UK adults so accessibility is a key issue. See and learn from the review and planning process for improving accessibility.
Delivering Self-Learning Performance Management with Netuitive
Netuitive offer probably the most innovative performance management suite available today. It's a real time offering able to adapt dynamically to meet business needs.
Accessible Google Maps
Google Maps hides some accessibility features. Here are some of them and a plea for Google to better document accessibility in general.
BCS Awards for MP Websites
The BCS MP Website award helped highlight the importance of ICT to the UK. It also raised issues of accessibility design.