Tag Archives: accessibility

Traffic lights and inclusive design

Posted on 10 June 2010 by Nic Price

Why are there three separate lights in the standard traffic light setup? Why are they vertically arranged? In a nutshell: don’t rely on colour alone to convey meaning in your information design. Continue reading →

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Talking of tabs

Posted on 30 April 2008 by Nic Price

Make someone’s day! Tell them they can use the Tab key on their keyboard to move through a web-page. To those who already know, it seems obvious, taken for granted. But if you’ve ever watched people filling out boxes on … Continue reading →

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SharePoint and Web Accessibility

Posted on 18 April 2008 by Nic Price

According to Bruce Lawson, a web accessibility expert working in the legal sector, Sharepoint fails to meet one of the priority 1 requirements (which must be met), and breaks some priority two requirements (which should be met). See Bruce Lawson’s … Continue reading →

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Intranets. I’ll show you mine if you show me yours.

Posted on 6 December 2007 by Nic Price

Yesterday about thirty Intranetters (thanks to Andrew for pointing me towards the yahoo group) got together in central London. It was a really good event – a kind of intranets anonymous. Big thanks to Simon Hill and Rod McLean for … Continue reading →

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Britain’s online newspapers accessibility scores – should do better

Posted on 20 November 2007 by Nic Price

Today Martin Belam publishes the scores from his excellent series of articles looking at the accessibility of the UK’s main national newspaper websites. The Times came out on top, even though it makes no use of an on-screen text-resizing widget, … Continue reading →

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