Imagine being able to move objects with only your thoughts. Simply thinking a thought, and then an object does your bidding. For many humans struck with paralysis such as Lou Gehrig Disease or Locked In Syndrome, this isn’t only a sci-fi pipe dream, but a much hoped reality. Now it is a reality. Watch this [...]
Filed under: Accessibility, Emerging Technology, Interface Design, Research, Usability on November 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
Atlanta, GA – (June 21, 2008) – Sherpa! Web Studios, Atlanta’s leading digital experience marketing firm (sherpawebstudios.com), proudly announces the launch of Cbeyond® PartnerAccess — the new website portal for Cbeyond’s partners and resellers. Cbeyond PartnerAccess (cbeyondpartners.net) enables partners to maximize their partnership with Cbeyond by more effectively managing their customer accounts. Partners can use [...]
Filed under: Accessibility, Announcements, Atlanta Web Design, Behind the Scenes, Information Architecture, Interface Design, Marketing Strategy, Press Releases, User Experience, Web Business, Web Design on June 22nd, 2008 | No Comments »
Earlier this week Amazon released Kindle. Within minutes, the web was filled with reviews, mostly negative. Frankly, we don’t care about those reviews, mainly because most of them are from people who have never used one. More importantly, we don’t care about reviews. A review is simply one’s person opinion, and all too often it [...]
Filed under: Accessibility, Emerging Technology, Mobile, Usability, User Experience, Web Design on November 20th, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Remember the extra small all caps labels that were all the rage several years ago? Or the most recent black backgrounds with white or worse grey text? Have you ever wondered why interaction designers continue to plague web design with these questionable styles? Perhaps they should read ‘Type & Layout: Are You Communicating or Just [...]
Filed under: Accessibility, User Experience, Web Design on April 6th, 2007 | No Comments »
This morning I sat down to watch an episode of the show by zefrank. As the video loaded and began playing I soon realized, my sound was not working. Was it muted? No. Was the volume turned down? No. What in the world was causing this? Oh well, probably just need to reboot…
Then it dawned on me: while a reboot would assuredly fix this issue (it’s happened before), what about people who can’t hear? For that matter, what about people who can’t see?
As our world runs head-on into the age of social-media networking with apps such as YouTube and beautifully complex AJAX’ed apps, what happens to accessibility?
Filed under: Accessibility, Emerging Technology, Social Networking, User Experience on February 7th, 2007 | 2 Comments »
