I’ve been doing some work on http://contentlabel.org/ and the labeling vocabularies are coming along nicely. We now have vocabs for the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, Section 580, Pan European Game Information, Creative Common Licenses and Mobile OK Basic Tests. Next on the agenda is a vocabulary for the mobile web best practices and blogs. [...]

To help seed interest and gain mass adoption for Content Labels more quickly, we’ve decided to give our technology to other trust providers for free. This may sound a little weird but it’s not. Segala’s revenue model is based on partners certifying Web sites for Web accessibility standards compliance and in the future, mobileOK compliance. [...]

People who know me might often ask what is it I do, and so it has come to pass that I often give them the stock answer “Accessibility auditing, certification and Standards Compliance” usually, they will simply nod giving that vague facial expression where you know thats just gone right over their heads. Now, time [...]

With the amount of trips I make between Dublin and London I decided to take out a VHI multi trip travel insurance policy. After all, it’s only €48.00 and you never know when you’ll need it. I opted for the Under 65 Couple Worldwide policy for €69.00, safe with the knowledge that both my wife [...]

Today I attended a demonstration of the Robobraille service at St. Joseph’s school for the visually impaired in Drumcondra, Dublin 9. The service offers users the ability to translate word, text, rtf or html documents braille or audio (mp3) files. The project is still in development while the audio translation works the braille translation is [...]

I got an email this afternoon over the Irl-dean list from Stuart (NCBI) who is currently involved in a European project called ‘Dicomp.S.Net’. which aims to make free a Screen Reader called ‘Thunder’. Thunder is a screen reader which makes everything talk. The idea of a *free screen reader* is very long over due if [...]

It doesn’t matter if you are living in communist China, Castro’s Cuba or democratic United Kingdom, but on the net democracy rule. In todays virtual world user opinions fuels everything. Well, that’s where web 2.0 era start isn’t it? A Poll is one of the oldest methods of collecting user opinions. An online poll is [...]