tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post5478684898705173831..comments2023-10-04T13:05:38.186+01:00Comments on Nick Lansley's Technology for Tesco.com Blog: The web is a visual medium, so what are blind people doing on it?Nick Lansleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00087509895945257528noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post-69475500449462515232012-04-16T21:14:36.688+01:002012-04-16T21:14:36.688+01:00Great blog, Nick - good to see you posting fine st...Great blog, Nick - good to see you posting fine stuff years on from working together on PAS 78.<br /><br />For those not in the know, PAS 78 was updated to become the full British Standard BS 8878 in December 2010. <br /><br />BS 8878 takes the same non-technical line as PAS 78, providing guidance to non-technical website owners for the whole process of commissioning, procuring and producing accessible websites, but updates it to cover modern websites, apps, IPTV, user-generated content and much more.<br /><br />Interested readers can find free information including the official slides on BS 8878 from its launch, case studies of organisations using BS 8878, detailed blogs on its use by SMEs, tools and training for applying the Standard, and news on its progress towards becoming an International Standard at <a href="http://www.hassellinclusion.com/bs8878/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hassellinclusion.com/bs8878/</a><br /><br />Prof Jonathan Hassell<br />Director of Hassell Inclusion and Lead-author of BS 8878Jonathan Hassellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07560779863422918990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5819898692345221601.post-85701064179952724792009-12-16T07:35:33.591+00:002009-12-16T07:35:33.591+00:00Nick, it should be mandatory for every company act...Nick, it should be mandatory for every company active on the web to provide solutions for the visually disabled. But the challenges grow elsewhere,too. Yesterday I happened upon a short conversation about the iPhone and 4th screen-applications. A person with prothesises on his hands said he would love to use the iPhone. The screen however needs skin contact so that he is excluded from this experience. Everybody talks about the potential of capacitative screens as compared with resistive screen technology. However the resistive screen has to be kept and developed because not everybody can use capacitative technology.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01952828392099757896noreply@blogger.com