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 […]
I’m honored to be the closing plenary speaker at AHEAD 2014, the annual conference of the Association on Higher Education and Disability. Thinking back to a previous AHEAD conference, I recall a plenary speaker who proudly announced that he didn’t have any slides; he would just be talking. This proclamation was met with applause; even […]
In my recent blog post on Converting Word to PDF or HTML, I described some confusion that stems from Microsoft Word’s having two fields, Title and Description, for entering alt text for images. Unbeknownst to me at the time, Greg Kraus of NC State had recently written a similar blog post in which he echoed […]
Today I’m celebrating Independence Day by declaring independence from presentational HTML markup! In my previous blog post I explored strategies for converting Microsoft Word docs to accessible PDF and HTML. For HTML, I found that Word produces a relatively clean HTML file if you save to “Web page, filtered” in Word 2010 or 2013 for […]