I had the honour of taking part in a panel session discussing How Does Accessibility Fit into Today’s Usability Practice? at the Usability Professionals’ Association Conference (UPA 2010) in Munich last week. The session was organised by Shawn Henry of the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative and provided an opportunity to debate the challenges of promoting and supporting accessible ICT design within a wider usability context. A number of interesting discussion points emerged – here are my reflections on the panel session.
Accessibility and Usability
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May 31, 2010
The role of accessibility in the usability profession today – and tomorrow
Posted by David Sloan under Accessibility and Usability | Tags: accessibility, advocacy, communication, conference, HCI, ICT, innovation, older people, pragmatism, upa2010, usability |[2] Comments
February 24, 2010
Clearing up after spammers
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Today I arrived at work and discovered that someone had been sending unauthorised direct messages (DMs) from my Twitter account. These messages were of the form “This you???? <URL>”, where the URL is a shortened URL which led to a site designed to phish for Twitter password details. I can see these messages by looking at the Sent list of my Direct mesages, and it appears that has been sent to a random selection of over 100 Twitter accounts (some of whom I follow, some I don’t recognise).
Firstly, apologies to everyone who received one of these messages and who was inconvenienced by it.
