Flickr published an article that addressed how they rebuilt their lightbox presentation for mobile devices: Lessons Learned from the Flickr Touch Lightbox. This article shows that perceived performance is extremely important on a mobile device. User’s expect something to occur as soon as they touch the screen and any delay degrades the experience.
Here’s the roundup of tricks and treats.
Join the Yahoo! Accessibility Lab team at the 26th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference (CSUN) in San Diego March 14-19.
How can social networks enhance the education of those with intellectual disabilities? What can the cloud do for soldiers with traumatic brain injuries?
According to Victor Tsaran, one of Yahoo!’s Accessibility team, ads are slowly being made accessible to sight- and hearing-impaired users via screen readers and captioning software.
This award was given to Yahoo! India in the category of companies or organizations who have taken up the cause of accessibility and universal design.
Yahoo! product designer Cindy Li discusses color theory and internationalization, and shares some of her favorite design resources.
Techshare conferences in India provide an opportunity to government, corporates, NGOs, educators, and the disabled to bridge barriers with an inclusive perspective.
Accessibility Evangelist Artur Ortega at the Funka Accessibility Days in Sweden. His talk gave many specific examples of accessible Web and mobile apps that improve independence.
At the 2010 CSUN accessibility conference, guide dog Pecan will carry a camera on her harness and send pictures every 30 seconds to flickr. Attending are Yahoo! experts Alan Brightman, Srinivasu Chakravarthula, Viktor Tsaran, Nicholas Zakas, and Artur Ortega.
Among the various testing environments screen readers remain of the “gray” areas for many developers. This article will look closely at how to test using the free NVDA screen reader.
Today we announced the new Yahoo! Search Results Page, which ships with a wide array of rich new features. What you might be surprised to learn is that the new design is actually a little faster than the original.
On 22nd of September, London, England once again is the place to hear all about the impact of the social web on accessibility. Accessibility 2.0 is a conference to bridge the gap between technology and human needs.
Last week’s Hack U at the University of Michigan made for an unforgettable trip to Ann Arbor. I met with lots of local geeks and and hacked the night away with students. It was great to hang out with such a vibrant tech community and witness Ann Arbor go crazy at the start of March Madness.
Yahoo Dirk Ginader used YUI widgets and extended them in his redesign of the Currency Converter application on Yahoo! Finance. The new converter is fast, easy-to-use, and accessible to everyone, including people who use a screenreader to interact with web apps.
