Monthly Archives / August 2007

Give your Products Names, not numbers

What’s a better product, the 6131 or Z1397? The W810i, or the K800m? When did it become acceptable to name your products after your pin code? Is it really that surprising that products such as the iPod, or the Razr do well when their only competition sounds like a bad roll in Yahtzee? What does all this mean for users?

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Screenreaders and writing for accessibility: the importance of meaningful and structured headings

Semantic mark-up is the mainly the domain of web designers. For content authors, it’s someone else’s problem.

However, content authors may need to understand the concept of semantic HTML if they are to produce web content that is accessible to all.

In this quick video example, I’ll demonstrate the benefits of semantic headings for accessibility and set our readers the task of explaining what may look like a heading, may not actually be a heading.

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