Author Archives: Richard

Guerilla Web Accessibility

By Richard | Published: January 8, 2010

There is a vast amount of information and advice available about web accessibility, and it can be overwhelming so this is my take on the essentials that you need to know. This is only an introduction and not meant to be comprehensive. What is Web Accessibility In a nutshell it is a means of making websites [...]

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Can You Drive if You are Blind? What about Reading a Website?

By Richard | Published: December 17, 2009

You can drive if you are blind, although your ability to drive safely will vary depending on a number of factors including whether you have any assistance (and bearing in mind that dogs no longer need a licence in the UK). You can even do so legally if not on a public road (in the [...]

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Should Good Design be Unobtrusive?

By Richard | Published: December 2, 2009

The short answer is probably yes, good design should be unobtrusive. The longer answer is that it depends on a number of things. New ideas or significant variations on existing ideas tend to be fairly obtrusive as they are unfamiliar and make us stop and think. Examples My favourite example of this in the world of web [...]

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Design by Community

By Richard | Published: November 20, 2009

Design by Committee One of the often quoted rules of web design is that design by committee is a really bad idea. There are always a number of people involved in decisions around web design but problems arise when that number is more than a few. Projects stagnate through indecision, or web sites turn out to [...]