Adrian Roselli tagged me in his Tag, you're it post in March, and it's taken me until now to do it.
Why did you start blogging in the first place?
I have no idea why I began blogging! It probably had something to do with having owned my own domain name since the late 90s but...
This recipe for sticky pork belly slices is one where you can turn up the heat if you like your food with a chilli kick to it. Otherwise, it's just sweet and sticky and just a little bit crunchy all the way.
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Time: 10 minutes prep + 60 minutes
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I wrote about the advantages of wearable AI tech for blind people back in 2020, when I bought a pair of Envision Glasses. At the time they felt revolutionary, and indeed they were, but they never became part of my everyday tech. I've had my pair of Ray-Ban Meta Glasses for a...
Making French onion soup can be a bit of a faff, especially when it comes to caramelising the onions, but if you're not in a hurry, you can use a slow cooker to make it instead.
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Time: 15 minutes prep + 8.5 hours in the slow cooker
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Last Sunday I went to see Stranger Things: The First Shadow, at the Phoenix theatre in London. If you like the Stranger Things Netflix series, you'll love the play - and I absolutely did! What really made my day was that it was a performance with live Audio Description (AD) ...
Jakob Nielsen thinks that accessibility has failed.
I give this some thought as I make my lunch with ingredients I purchased from an online grocery store. I keep thinking about it as I return to my desk and respond to a few emails using my online mailbox. I check my online c...
Today I was given early access to the BeMyAI beta, a feature that's being added to the BeMyEyes iOS app using ChatGPT4.
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BeMyEyes is one of the most remarkable apps to have emerged in recent years. You sign up either as a sighted volunteer, or a blind or low vision p...
The case for CSS Speech is not just about screen readers, but they do of course matter. Whenever the topic is mentioned, someone will contact me to say they worry about websites taking over their screen reader and making content less accessible instead of more enjoyable.
The...
In these times when almost every device and platform is capable of talking to you, you may be surprised to learn that there is no way for authors to design the aural presentation of web content, in the way they can design the visual presentation.
Once this was largely an acc...
Using one element or set of elements (usually because of their functionality) and styling them to look like something else is a common pattern. A recent conversation about using radio buttons styled to look like buttons highlighted the essential problem with this approach - ...
In a blog post on writing great alt text, Jake Archibald asked "Should skin tone be mentioned in alt text?". It's a good question, and one I've asked myself as a blind person, so Jake's post has prompted me to do some thinking out loud...
Here's a question for you: if you re...
The 15th in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This meltingly good goulash recipe comes from Patrick H. Lauke.
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I've been thinking about conversational interfaces for some time, and about the importance of voice quality as a part of user experience.
I use a screen reader and it sounds the same, whatever I'm doing - reading an email from a friend, reading news of a global disaster, rea...
The case for not using accessibility overlays has been made and endorsed by industry professionals, disability organisations, and people with disabilities. One concern is the privacy of personal data, and in the case of the AccessiBe overlay, it deserves closer scrutiny.
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The provision of text alternatives has been a first principle of accessibility since before WCAG 1.0 made it official in 1999, but apparently not everyone has got the message. According to the WebAIM Million from February 2020, more than 30% of homepage images were missing t...
We humans put a lot of effort into seeing. When our eyes are open, vision accounts for two thirds of the electrical activity in our brain; 40% of the nerve fibres that are connected into the brain relate to vision; and more of our neurons are dedicated to vision than the oth...
Online advertising is, in my opinion, intrusive, invasive, and, in the case of accessibility, frequently destructive. Yet since it first emerged in 1994, online advertising has been one of the few ways content creators have had to be compensated for their efforts. Until now....
When a table is created using the appropriate HTML elements (or ARIA roles) screen readers can inform users about the characteristics of the table, and users have access to keyboard commands specifically for navigating tabular content.
For the purposes of this post I'm going...
The aria-label and aria-labelledby attributes do the same thing but in different ways. Sometimes the two attributes are confused and this has unintended results. This post describes the differences between aria-label and aria-labelledby and how to choose the right one.
The a...
The 14th in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This versatile recipe comes from Amelia Bellamy-Royds.
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I've loved pork rillettes since my family used to holiday in France during the summers of my childhood. I have many happy memories of sitting around the kitchen table in the cottage owned by friends in Parcay-Meslay, spreading rillettes onto slices of baguette with a good sp...
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People often include screen reader users in the much larger group of keyboard-only users. Whilst this is correct (most screen reader users don't use a mouse), it also creates a false impression of the way screen reader users navigate content.
To help explain t...
The aria-roledescription attribute changes the way screen readers announce the role of an element. Intended to give authors a way to provide a localised and human-readable description for a role, it has the capacity to both enhance and seriously break accessibility for scree...
The accessible SVG line graphs post explains how to use ARIA table semantics to make that form of data visualisation accessible to screen readers. This article uses the same ARIA based approach to make a screen reader accessible SVG flowchart.
The example comes from the W3C ...
The 13th in a series of posts that bring together the two sides of my blog: Food and technology. I’ve asked the great and the good from the web standards community to share their favourite recipes. This mouth-watering chicken dish is from Eric Meyer.
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People often presume I would jump at the chance to be able to see again. The fact of the matter is that I really don't know whether I would or not, because there is more to it than you might think.
I lost my sight at the turn of the century, over the course of about 12 month...
Updated on 27th February 2019: The Accessibility Object Model (AOM) specification has been updated and accessibleNode has been dropped. Read the AOM explainer for more information.
The Accessibility Object Model (AOM) is an experimental JavaScript API that enables developers...
SVG is often used for data visualisation, but because SVG lacks the semantics to express structures like bar charts, line graphs, and scatter plots, the content is difficult for screen reader users to interpret. The solution is to use the technique for creating accessible SV...
SVG has no native semantics for representing structures like tables, but ARIA1.1 introduces a number of roles that can be used to polyfill the necessary semantic information.
If you're using HTML, use the relevant HTML elements to create tables. The table, thead, tfooter, tb...
It's possible to use a single custom domain with multiple Github repositories that use Github Pages. The available documentation makes it seem more complicated than it is, so this is an effort to provide some more simple instructions.
This post assumes you have a custom doma...
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