Accessibility Matters - Exploring the Hows and Whens of Alternative Text
The most frustrating part of accessing the web as a blind user, in my opinion, is images. Whether they're infographics or pictures used to add a…
Focus On Quality and Your Customers Will Make Time for Your Content
How can you cut through the clutter and capture your customer's curiosity when time, clearly, isn't on your side? I'm not going to get into debates…
Canada Lands, Multi-Lingual Digital Experience
Canada Lands sought to redesign its website to create a fully accessible, mobile-first, and modern digital experience for its users.
Experiencing the Web as a Near Totally Blind User - First-Hand Accessibility Part I
I've talked in detail about specific accessibility improvements that affect me directly as a blind computer user. In a new series that I'm starting…
Why I Drank the Blue Kool-Aid
This month I celebrate one year at Digital Echidna. Over these past 12 months I've worked with clients exclusively on Drupal solutions. I've…
The Eyes of the Drupal Community Are Pointed at Toronto for Drupal North
I’m on my way to Ontario’s capital this week! Why? Because all eyes of the Drupal community will be on Toronto, ON as we prepare to host Drupal North…
Passionate Neutrality -- Biz Writing at its Finest
It’s a fine line between telling a story and being a shill – and, for business writers and media-types alike, I define that line using the following…
An Honest Way to Prevent a 'Panda' Attack
I love this line from the Wikipedia entry on the Giant Panda, "Though the panda is often assumed to be docile, it has been known to attack humans…
It’s Past the Time to be “Aware” on Global Accessibility Awareness Day
We’ve had nearly a decade to hit the ground running -- hopefully on a ground that’s fully accessible to all. But even today, the morning after Global…
tentree, Performance Branding
Northern and tentree launched a performance branding campaign which saw a 1.39X lift in purchases.