I never really thought about accessibility on the Internet. The articles I read thanks to the 5th thing of 23 Things made me realize how low the inclusion is in some areas on the internet. People easily face disadvantages because of the low awareness for handicaps. I checked two websites that I use regularly and … Continue reading Accessibility →
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Thing 6: Accessibility – Making it possible for everyone to take part in the Digital Cosmos
Hello and welcome back to the Digital Cosmos & I! Personal and physical health can, in my opinion, be seen as a treasure and gift, which we should appreciate and be thankful for. By working and dealing with the sixth Thing, I got an eyes-opening insight on the topic of accessibility. Before reading through the … Continue reading Thing 6: Accessibility – Making it possible for everyone to take part in the Digital Cosmos
Reflection: Thing 23 of 23
This is the end….So this is it. Blog post 23. We have seen so much. Been through so much. So what did I learn from it all? Well, I did learn that very much a part of “generation internet” though perhaps one of its eccentric geriatrics. I remember so …
Thing 6: Accessibility
User-friendly design is not a new concept these years; so, creating user-friendly content is not new either nowadays. However, I do find some new things which I haven’t noticed. For example, videos should be subtitled or accompanied by a transcript for those with hearing impairments and feature descriptions for those with visual impairments. (See Thing…
Accessibility: Thing 6 of the 23 Things
For this exercise it was recommended that we looked at a website with the WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation) tool.http://wave.webaim.org/It sounded simple enough, but I ran into a bit of a problem with my first choice of site…. it didn’t have that m…
Thing 6 – Accessibility
At the SSSC we have a communications department who are in charge of making sure all the material produced by the organisation is consistent and accessible. This means that before anything “goes live” the communications team must approve it. Obviously the whole process is streamlined if things are designed with accessibility in mind from the…
Thing 6 : Accessibility
I am half-colorblind, but I don’t really know what color that I am having trouble with.
Things 5 & 6
Diversity I was really excited for Week 3, Diversity and Accessibility. As a white European, cis, Middle Class, able-bodied straight presenting woman I’m pretty high up the privilege list, and because of that I can afford to not always think about these things. So I wanted to tackle this as a active recognising of privilege […]
Thing 6: Accessibility
This is a cross-post between WordPress and Medium. Being partially colourblind, I have an accessibility issue. It’s the sort of issue that many other people don’t take particularly seriously (and of course, it’s nowhere near the same league as any of the main sensory deprivations, for example). Often, when I tell people I’m partially colourblind, … Continue reading “Thing 6: Accessibility”
23 Things: Thing 6 Accessibility
Thing 6 is all about web accessibility and it’s a thing I have had a very on and off relationship with over the years. Despite the fact that I am fully signed up to the belief that accessible design is good design for all, I think I probably pay less attention to accessibility online than I […]
access to things
I am participating in the University of Edinburgh digital skills course ‘23 things for digital knowledge‘. Thing 6 is about accessibility. I was listening on Radio 4 to ‘tweet of the day’ this morning while scrolling through Twitter and I mused on the possibility of having tweets actually tweeted, as in spoken outloud. A quick …
Thing 6: Accessibility
As someone who has a sight difficulty that can’t be corrected (for reasons that are too complicated to go into here), I often struggle with anything that’s on screen or printed on a piece of paper. My bugbear is small text in a serif font and in a pale colour! I am glad that there […]