Accessible Interactive Multimedia

Dec 2, 2008

Yesterday came the announcement of a new standard for authoring multimedia presentations using sound, video, images and text. The Synchronized Multimedia Integration Language, known as SMIL 3.0 offers users accessibility options as well.

The Future of Web Accessibility

Nov 28, 2008

About this time of year, we begin to see an increase in articles and blog posts bravely attempting to predict future interests in various industries. The arena comprised of web design and virtual technology is no different.

Accessible RIA

Jun 14, 2008

Thursday night I was speaking to a very excellent group of folks at PhillyCHI about web accessibility, and a question came up regarding the accessibility of rich internet applications. I kind of fudged my response, because the topic is fairly broad, so I’m going to explore some concepts here as a follow-up.

Structural-Semantics for Accessibility and Device Independence

May 8, 2008

Darren Lunn, a third year PhD student from the Human Centred Web Lab Research School of Computer Science, has introduced a framework that seeks to bind Semantic Web technologies with specific visual structures to accurately transcode across a diverse range of web content vehicles.