Glen Scott - Keeping it simple » accessibility http://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog Thoughts on software development and other geeky pursuits. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:23:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 BBC set a good example for site redesign http://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog/2008/03/31/bbc-set-a-good-example-for-site-redesign/ http://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog/2008/03/31/bbc-set-a-good-example-for-site-redesign/#comments Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:51:20 +0000 Glen http://www.glenscott.co.uk/?p=93 The BBC News site has undergone a redesign, and they have published on their blog some of the thinking behind it. The key point is that they have listened carefully to user feedback:

…we did some research asking you what you thought we should change about the site. Many of those we asked said leave it alone – don’t change a thing. But it was also clear from the feedback we got that there were others who thought the site design could do with a bit of a revamp – something we’d been thinking about doing for a while.

I personally think it’s a big improvement, with the content having more room to breathe. However, you can’t please everyone judging by the comments on the blog…

I can’t stand the new layout. The old design meant that my browser window did not have to fill the width of my screen. The new design does. I hate it.

]]> http://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog/2008/03/31/bbc-set-a-good-example-for-site-redesign/feed/ 0 Make Safari More Accessible from the Keyboard http://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog/2008/03/27/make-safari-more-accessible-from-the-keyboard/ http://www.glenscott.co.uk/blog/2008/03/27/make-safari-more-accessible-from-the-keyboard/#comments Thu, 27 Mar 2008 00:36:08 +0000 Glen http://www.glenscott.co.uk/2008/03/27/make-safari-more-accessible-from-the-keyboard/ To make it easier to navigate pages using the keyboard, go into Safari Preferences and under the Advanced tab, turn on “Press Tab to highlight each item on a webpage”. Now you can use tab to go forward through links and form elements on a page, and shift-tab to go backwards. Follow a highlighted link simply by pressing return.

Safari Preferences for Tab highlight

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