Accessibility Matters - iAid Update
Last week I wrote about the iAid, using it as an example of a device which was overly complicated and less useful than existing low-tech solutions…
Teaching People that it Should be Hard to Make Life Inaccessible
"It should be hard to make something inaccessible." That's really it, isn't it? You wouldn't build structures or create content that excludes people…
Accessibility Matters -- Is Our Aim True?
Designing and developing digital products for everyone should obviously include persons with disabilities, but this is made challenging if the…
How to Optimize Content for Accessibility and Search
The Drupal framework has accessibility at its core. However, there are a lot of things that content marketers can contribute to make their sites as…
Accessible Hiring: Right Idea; Historically Wrong Approach
Today marks the end of Disability Employment Awareness Month. And as much as Digital Echidna as a company and I, individually, are strongly involved…
Fanshawe Students Deliver Success for Local Businesses for Fifth Year
Need to Know Northern's fifth Digital Marketing Challenge for Fanshawe College marketing students has concluded for another successful year. Our team…
When it Comes to Web Standards and Accessibility, Being Blue is a Great Thing
If you’ve noticed your social feeds are turning blue, it’s got nothing to do with the November blahs and everything about supporting blue beanie day…
Don't Cry Beige to Meet an Artificial Content Schedule
What do you do when you have nothing to say? And how do you align that reality with all the (often conflicting) advice about how frequently and when…
The Cautionary Tale of Boaty McBoatface
If you've ever been on a large boat, you know that they're impressive wonders of technology. They can move impressively fast and they can carry a lot…
J-Say Starts to Bridge Speech and Text Gap for Visually Impaired Computer Control
There are certain pieces of software that are just fascinating to me. A computer that speaks through text-to-speech applications provides worlds of…