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Ever wondered what "Vorsprung durch technik" means? If you remember the Audi adverts in the UK from the 1990s, you'll know it stands for excellent design and precision engineering. It actually translates as "Advancement through…
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Humanising Technology (HT) is the concept behind Nomensa. It is our design philosophy. Defining Humanising Technology If humanisation can be defined as ‘the act of making more human’ then humanising technology is ‘the act of…
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Whether negotiating million pound business deals or convincing a toddler that playing with the sharp knife is a bad idea, we have all tried to convince someone else that our opinion is worth considering. Persuasion…
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Most websites nowadays incorporate some kind of community aspect which allows users to provide feedback to the site's owners and to each other. In fact, 'building community' is one of the most important aspects of…
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For World Usability Day (10th November 2011) I provided 8 tips (tweets) on Information Architecture (IA) "truisms" I’d want everyone on a team to know before starting a typical website project. Twitter is a little restrictive, so…
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Increasingly, people are including declarations on their websites that define the level of web accessibility the website aims to achieve. Known as Accessibility Statements, these declarations take the form of a short information page which…
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The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines are developed by the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). The WAI are a branch of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the organisation that provides guidelines and specifications for many web…
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Metaphors are used in human-computer interaction to describe unfamiliar concepts or systems, like a computer, in terms of familiar elements, like files and folders. In the realm of e-commerce, many retailers employ aspects of physical…
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Why headings and lists? Well, a large part of my role as a web developer involves conducting accessibility audits on websites and time after time I'm both surprised and somewhat disappointed with the distinct lack…
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The first rule of web accessibility, at least if the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 1.0) are to be believed, is to provide an alternative text description for all non-text elements (that's images, graphical links,…
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A screen reader is a software application that enables people with severe visual impairments to use a computer. Screen readers work closely with the computer’s Operating System (OS) to provide information about icons, menus, dialogue…
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It’s late on a Friday evening, and you’re trying to arrange a flight for the following weekend to see your brother in Paris. You don’t mind flying from Bristol, Birmingham or a London airport, you…
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Skip links are internal page links which aid navigation around the current page, rather than to completely new pages. They are mainly used by screen reader users for bypassing or 'skipping' over repetitive web page…
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Introduction Since the mid 1990s, when web accessibility first emerged as an unarguable concern, ideas and attitudes have evolved to a point where we understand a great deal about not only the technicalities but also…
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Introduction In this, the third paper in the Nomensa Insight series, we will be further exploring the Voice Settings of the Jaws (JFW) screen reader. Following on from the second paper in the series (Voice…
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Introduction This is the second paper in the Nomensa Insight series. It looks at one of the most vital areas of the Jaws For Windows (JFW) screen reader software, the Voice Settings. It will also…
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Introduction The Jaws for Windows (JFW) screen reader is one of the most powerful tools available to visually impaired computer users. As a full time Jaws user, I have realised in recent conversations with other…
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The World Wide Web was created to provide information that could be accessed by people viewing web pages in a browser. This is clearly stated on the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) web site: The…
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