Amex woes highlight common PDF accessibility problem

Recent reported accessibility problems with American Express' web statements exemplify a common challenge for financial service websites and those reliant on PDFs.

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Posted 07 April 2008 08:30am by Chris Rourke with 5 comments

AJAX and accessibility - Jaws to the rescue?

RIAs like Ajax often have an accessibility weak spot since they need to work with JavaScript off to meet the basic accessibility guidelines.

Rumour has it that the next version of the popular screen reader Jaws may be able to handle Ajax interfaces. 

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Posted 23 July 2007 10:18am by Chris Rourke with 3 comments

Election fiasco shows importance of usability tests

The cost of failing to usability test designs before deployment has unfortunately been shown again in Scotland's controversial election results.

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Posted 08 May 2007 08:00am by Chris Rourke with 12 comments

How to be PDQ on your PDA – Adaptex goes live

This week saw the official launch of Adaptex, the software from Keypoint Technologies that can help users of PDAs enter data and text much faster and easier. Communicating and buying via your PDA or smartphone whilst on the road can be a lot easier potentially.

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Posted 13 November 2006 12:46pm by Chris Rourke with 1 comment

Do your users know their RSS from their elbow?

Whilst we get all excited about social software and Web 2.0, does the average web user care at all?  Should they?

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Posted 30 October 2006 10:28am by Chris Rourke with 0 comments

Clustering your search results

I have been thinking a lot about search lately, not only due to my reliance on Google that we all now share, but also because I currently reading an excellent book, The Search by John Batelle , about all things search and Google.

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Posted 11 October 2006 11:20am by Chris Rourke with 1 comment

Are Social Conferences the 2.0 of conferencing?

A social conference is a physical embodiment of the web 2.0 world and like the web itself presents a unique and invigorating opportunity to communicate and connect. Is this the future of conferencing?

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Posted 27 September 2006 11:43am by Chris Rourke with 0 comments

Should you Bump up your Desktop?

For most busy people, the desktop is their short term dumping ground for files that they intend to put somewhere specific. The BumpTop is meant to make your messy computer desktop more like a messy real desk top - but do users want that or would they find a file explorer's built in organisational system more usable?

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Posted 05 September 2006 10:47am by Chris Rourke with 0 comments