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Cognitive Web Accessibility Guidelines: 2010 & 2009
I have created a growing list of resources, published in the last ten years, related to guidelines for developing Web sites accessible to people with cognitive disabilities. Listed below are a few...
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10 Reasons Against Cognitive Web Accessibility
There is no generally-accepted, functional definition of “cognitive disability”. There has been little definitive research on creating Web sites for people with cognitive disabilities. The vast...
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10 Organizations That Promote Cognitive Web Accessibility
I have created a list of ten organizations that promote Web accessibility for people with cognitive disabilities. Of those in the list, the following are a few I believe have recently engaged in...
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20 Sites Assessed For Cognitive Web Accessibility
This post summarizes the results from my assessments of the Web sites of 20 organizations that serve people with cognitive disabilities. It is my plan to perform 100 such cognitive Web accessibility...
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Multimodal Summary of Complex Sentences for People with Cognitive Disabilities
This following is a synopsis of work on creating multimodal summaries of complex sentences. A poster of that work, performed by The Hajim School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at The University...
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Struggling to Reduce Dense Content Into Chunks Without Requiring Multiple Clicks
I am working on a project to make the website of a local university, which has a campus-based program for students with learning disabilities, more usable by them. The current site is designed for...
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Redesigning University Website for People with Learning Disabilities: Feedback
I am working on a project to make the website, of a university program for people with learning disabilities, more usable by prospective students. Small groups of faculty and students were shown the...
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Improving Web Searching for People with Cognitive Disabilities
Using a website search tool is difficult for people with cognitive disabilities. Finding a relevant result is often thwarted by spelling errors they make, their inability to detect them, or a lack of...
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Boston Accessibility Unconference 2011: What, When, Where, Who
What The Boston Accessibility Unconference is a participant-driven event, also known as a BarCamp. It is an opportunity for members of the design-, development-, usability- and accessibility...
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2012 Boston Accessibility Conference – September 15 – Register Now!
Register Now for the 2012 Boston Accessibility Conference! When Saturday, September 15, 2012 Where Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD) Center One Memorial Drive Cambridge, MA 02142...
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New W3C Task Force for Cognitive Accessibility
A new task force has been formed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to develop accessibility guidelines for people with cognitive disabilities. It is led by Lisa Seeman, a long-time expert and...
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2014 Boston Accessibility Conference – May 10 – Register Now!
Register Now for the 2014 Boston Accessibility Conference! When Saturday, May 10, 2014, 9 AM to 5 PM Where Cambridge IBM Innovation Center One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 (One Charles Park) –...
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Proposed Infrastructure For Automatic-Accessibility Personalization
The WC3‘s Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force received a presentation about a project called the “Global Public Inclusive Infrastructure” (GPII), from Gregg Vanderheiden, on...
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Gap Analyses for Cognitive Web Accessibility (W3C Task Force)
The members of the W3C‘s Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force have been working since January to develop a set of gap analyses. A gap analysis, as we have defined it, identifies...
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Autism Gap Analysis (W3C Task Force)
Neil Milliken and I have written an autism gap analysis as part of the effort to create gap analyses by the W3C‘s Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force. Our intent is to identify...
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CAPTCHA, Cognitive Disabilities, v1 (W3C Task Force)
As a member of the W3C‘s Cognitive and Learning Disabilities Accessibility Task Force, I agreed to review web-security technologies. I chose to begin with CAPTCHA. My first draft is below. The format I...
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Online Security & Privacy for People with Cognitive Disabilities, Part 1
I am trying to evaluate the barriers of online security and privacy to people with cognitive disabilities. This work will help inform the effort of the W3C’s Cognitive and Learning Disabilities...
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Online Security & Privacy for People with Cognitive Disabilities: Challenges...
Description of the Technologies Most user interfaces are designed to help users complete tasks. However, web security and privacy technologies intentionally introduce barriers to task completion. They...
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My Activities: Cognitive Web Accessibility
I have been busy with my cognitive web accessibility work, though I have not blogged about it much. Here are 3 examples. Ongoing I have a weekly teleconference with the W3C‘s Cognitive and Learning...
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Multi-Modal Content Delivery for People with Cognitive Disabilities
Description of the Technologies Textual content can be delivered in different modes to help people with cognitive disabilities comprehend it. These modes can include: text to speech (TTS) video; text...
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