Archive for category: Research

Reviews and critiques of published research

Makes a Braille display look like a bed o’ nails    (2005.11.21)

New research on a full-page Braille display, with tactile graphics

Web usability for older people    (2005.11.12)

I’ve got some issues with a research paper. Alert the media.

Text-only pages are possibly not so bad    (2005.11.08)

Shocker: Text-only pages preferred by people with disabilities under some circumstances

Selling accessibility to programmers    (2005.11.08)

Review of a research paper that puts the focus on programmers for a change.

Captioning, fanvids, remixing    (2005.10.31)

Using caption text to find and remix video segments

Further on online captioning and description    (2005.10.26)

About the CNICE project for online captioning and audio description

More adaptations for colourblindness    (2005.10.26)

A research paper on “repainting” colours for colour-deficient people

Four different ways to test Web accessibility    (2005.10.10)

Some research into different ways to test Web accessibility. (Experts using screen readers win, but they’re still pretty bad at it)

The role of alignment in Web design    (2005.10.10)

Results of a poorly-devised test may or may not show that lots of links on a page make it harder to find a certain link