Steven Tew

Following a conversation with Judy Brewer from the W3C back in February, Jared Smith had the chance to interview her and submit some probing questions to the WCAG Working Group about what’s happening with WCAG 2.0. Thanks Judy…and nice one Jared! See the interview with Judy Brewer and the WCAG Working Group over at WaSP [...]

I’m in Prague this week meeting colleagues, doing some training, eating, drinking and generally taking in the atmosphere. It’s a fantastic city to visit, with great architecture and nice people. I’m enjoying it very much.
But just when I thought things couldn’t get better, this morning I received a text from Paul saying that the [...]

Wow! I recently worked on a project for the National Galleries of Scotland (NGS) and today I’ve been told that the site has been short listed from over 400 of Scotland’s premier visitor attractions for the 2006 Best Website Award - Large Category by the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions (ASVA).
Our NGS Summer Exhibitions site [...]

IBM has announced a program to give computer science majors the technical skills to develop or adapt computer programs for people with special needs.
Why? Well consider this…
“Between 750 million and 1 billion people have a speech, vision, mobility, hearing or cognitive disability, according to the World Health Organization. One-quarter of the U.S. population turn 55 [...]

Google Labs has just unveiled it’s new Accessible Search tool designed to favour pages that are most likely to be accessible to visually impaired users.