Comments for the art of web accessibility

Comment on Sign Language iPhone and Mobile Apps by Tisha

Tisha — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 15:50:55 +0000

I was just checking out ASL ultimate by Zoosware that was suggested on another site. I’m trying to learn myself, to be able to communicate with Deaf members of our church.

Comment on PR+Social Media Summit by pickypatel

pickypatel — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 15:29:08 +0000

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Comment on Sign Language iPhone and Mobile Apps by Steve

Steve — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:33:45 +0000

Thanks for the insights, Karen. I could see how using an app could lead to being less disciplined than actually interacting with someone or getting proper, traditional training.

Even so, I may still give it a try. It might not get me all the way to full understanding, but may be a good start.

Seems like there is an open market there for people to develop apps for different languages/cultures. Hopefully in the near future that will happen.

Comment on Sign Language iPhone and Mobile Apps by Karen Mardahl

Karen Mardahl — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 19:32:31 +0000

I have
iSign Lite
ASL Signs Lite
ASL Signs Essential
on my iPhone. I am not deaf, but I want to learn sign. The two lite programs are free. I was so enthused that I bought the Essential. I planned to teach myself sign, and I think the program was OK for that.
However, I wasn’t disciplined. Also, I live in Denmark and would have more use for Danish Sign. I found one website that is like a dictionary of words. That was too hard to use for teaching myself. It seems, in my experience, that there are more apps and websites for the sign languages related to English. I keep them installed with the idea that I could perhaps use them to communicate with someone or at least get the greetings and other basics memorized.

Comment on Sign Language iPhone and Mobile Apps by Steve

Steve — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 13:52:15 +0000

Thanks for the comment, Sara — I can imagine FaceTime is incredibly useful for sign language.

Definitely let me know whatever else you find!

Comment on Sign Language iPhone and Mobile Apps by Sara

Sara — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 03:34:09 +0000

My sister-in-laws are deaf. Both of them use Apple’s FaceTime for communicating via sign language. It works great…always a nice, clear picture.

I see what else I can dig up!

Comment on Accessibility of Links by Paul

Paul — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:43:49 +0000

I accept your reasoning. However one of the reasons for not underlining is that it disrupts the readability of text, this is because the bottoms of letters contain more information than the tops plus you have descenders that are struck through by the underlining. The underlining of the spaces, reduces the definition of the words.

Underlining also is a dated technique for highlighting words that most probably dates back to the need to highlight hand written words and was later carried over to the computer age when all you had was a green text screen and no colour.

I agree that other techniques should be used as an alternative.
If a site has a feature to increase the size of the text, could there also be an option to add underlining or bold fonts for links?

Comment on Justified Text by Rupam Guha

Rupam Guha — Tue, 10 May 2011 20:23:13 +0000

Very true…I also don’t like ‘Justified Text’

Comment on Justified Text by wongda

wongda — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:30:52 +0000

I think the reason is the handling of spacing, not justified text itself. If the implementation support proper hyphenation, the space between words can be minimized and therefore readable like most printed books. I think the problem is css doesn’t support hyphenation.

Comment on Accessibility Presentation by Link Roundup – December 2010 - Learn PHP Online

Link Roundup – December 2010 - Learn PHP Online — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 15:29:12 +0000

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