I’ve just got back into the office from an enjoyable morning seminar on web accessibility hosted by Browsealoud. A big thanks to the team there for organising a great event which finished with a splendid buffet lunch!
I kicked off the proceedings with a presentation providing an overview of accessibility. After a quick true & false … Read more about ‘Accessibility event with Browsealoud’
I’ve just been sent a great blog post describing the unexpected behaviour of a segment of smart-phone users - over 55 females. What caught my attention was their use of games:
When it comes to downloading apps on their smart-phones, one in five women stated that their favourite app was a gaming app
Games can … Read more about ‘Your gaming grandma’
That’s appointments taken care of, but another issue is how to organise tasks.
For a while now, I’ve been using remember the milk.com which is a web-based task list I can access from a computer. This has been brilliant but has the disadvantage that if I’m not by computer, it is very unlikely I’ll remember … Read more about ‘Guest blog - Forgetting to remember’
As a dyslexic, one of the main problems I have is organising myself. I seem to spend half my time trying to decide what I am meant to be doing and where I am meant to be. By the time I’ve figured it out, I’ve missed an appointment or wasted an afternoon. Some people get … Read more about ‘Guest blog - Where to be and when, the joys of timetables and appointments’
On 4 March, I came across an article on the BBC News web site reporting that some researchers at Stamford University and at Edinburgh University found, Computers find male voices ‘harder to recognise’. Now I am male and as I cannot hand write, I have been using voice recognition technology (VRT) since I was 10 … Read more about ‘Guest blog - Computers find male voices harder to recognise - Oh dear’
