In this blog post, I have questions, not answers. However, there will hopefully be answers in the Comments section. Mac OS X version 10.10 (Yosemite) introduced two new potentially cool new features that I’m cautiously excited about. Potentially Cool Feature #1 In Accessibility Preferences, there is a new tab called “Descriptions”. In that tab, there […]
HTML5 introduces all sorts of exciting possibilities with timed text that can be synchronized with media. The new <track> element, used in conjunction with <audio> and <video>, makes it possible to add captions, subtitles, descriptions, chapters, and metadata to your media. As a musician I’m particularly interested in the possibilities of synchronizing text with audio, […]
Some software bugs are more amusing than others. For some reason I find this one to be amusing, perhaps because I discovered it on a Friday afternoon. My goal was to provide some context for a list of numeric links that appear at the bottom of a pager feature on a web page, for example […]
First, I should disclose my bias: I just turned 51, no longer have 20/20 vision, and prefer text that is readable rather than text that makes me squint. Don’t make users squint Font size in CSS can be specified in any of several size units, the most common of which are pixels (px), em, or […]
In 1992, DO-IT was founded with funding from the National Science Foundation, and every year since then has hosted a Summer Study program in which high school students with disabilities spend two weeks on the UW campus staying in dorms, learning about college life, participating in workshops and going on field trips that expose them […]