The online home and (not so) alter(ed)-ego of Ann McMeekin Carrier. New Mum, Photographer, Knitter, Petrolhead, Shoe and Stationery Obsessive and User Experience Consultant at Lab49.
I wrote a post the other day sharing a tiny tip that makes testing websites easier (go read, it’s short, I’ll wait), and in that post, called out the first site that I found that had a missing body background colour. Since then, I’ve spotted a quite surprising number of sites that have the same [...]
When I worked at RNIB, I changed my default desktop colour scheme because the default windows scheme gave me headaches and eye strain. The department of unintended consequences then stepped in and handed me a neat way to know whether a site was missing it’s body background colour without having to check any code, because [...]
I don’t know whether it’s just coincidence, but since I’ve been working in Bristol, there seem to have been quite a high proportion of geek events happening locally, which as well as being interesting, have given me the opportunity to meet some local folk. Last night was the turn of the Bristol Usability Group, which [...]
I was delighted last month to spend a couple of days with Leisa Reichelt and Mark Boulton looking at the work they’re doing for the d7ux project from an accessibility point of view. During that couple of days, we got to talking about how to make it easier for people who make Drupal themes to [...]
There have been several really thought-provoking posts about accessibility made over the last week or so, and while I’m marshalling my thoughts (and the several thousand words I’ve written in response) into something coherent, I thought it’d be worth linking to them. Accessibility to the Face from Northtemple Here’s my point–if your brother or sister [...]