User Experience -- No Magic, No Snake Oil, Just Data and Effort-Driven Results
User Experience is such a broad topic that it can often feel confusing to people not immersed in it. And, unfortunately, the world of web optimization…
National AccessAbility Week - Recognition, Celebration, leading to Action
Today marks the start of National AccessAbility Week. It’s billed as “a time for Canadians to promote inclusion and accessibility in our communities…
Discourage Bots Not Humans - CAPTCHA Challenges to Accessibility
The Completely Automated Public Turing Test to tell Computers and Humans Apart – otherwise known as CAPTCHA – is the bane of my online existence. This…
Beyond Disabilities: The Business Opportunities of Web Accessibility
If you could do something that would, almost immediately, expose your content, products, and/or services to more people, make it easier for people to…
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…
Accessible Engagement Tools to Create Equitable Opportunities
The best way to learn about your customers, their needs, the challenges they face, and the problems you can solve is by asking them directly. However…
A Note of Thanks
This weekend, we in the Great White North, celebrate Thanksgiving. It's a time of family, togetherness, and, of course, a three-day weekend. I wanted…
Let's Chat about Chatters' Hybrid Omnichannel Commerce
Northern launched the new Chatters digital experience leveraging Adobe Commerce and an integration with LS Central (POS/ERP) to marry the brand's key revenue drivers - product sales and salon services.
2014 – The Year that Will Be
Over the past week or so, we've looked back fondly at the year that was in 2013. We wrapped up the year discussing social success stories…
Full Accessibility in Ontario? It's Going to Take a Lot of (Already Delayed) Work
The impending arrival of a key deadline for Ontario's Accessible Employment Standard offers us a perfect opportunity to remember that if we want to…