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18 months ago, my fiance gave me an iPAQ 6365 PDA. I was over the moon – the first PDA i’d ever owned, it played music, took photos, and to boot had a mobile phone built into it. Even better, it had all these awesome wireless technologies built right into it… I couldn’t even begin [...]

SWF and UFO holding hands

The popular Flash javascript embed techniques SWFObject and UFO have joined forces to create SWFFix. Still in it’s alpha stage, this is a development to keep an eye on. They have already created this very useful test suite which highlights the complexity of making a generic and graceful embed technique for Flash content. Really, it [...]

The trouble with keyboards

I’m as accessibility-conscious as the next web geek… well, to be honest sometimes a little more (read professional work), and other times a lot less (read personal work). What I have found, however, is that since I’ve started paying attention, Ive stumbled across several high profile examples where accessibility seems not to have been considered. [...]

Accessibility not an option

I visited the Australian goverment website promoting Australia Day 2007 yesterday, and what I saw kind of made me question if Accessibility is still an issue anymore… You see, as far as I understood it, if a site was created by the government and for the people, it needed to be accessible by everyone. First [...]