Content for Everyone: Making Information Accessible
By Whitney Quesenbery | Fellow I once ran a usability study of cancer information. One of the participants was a nurse in a women’s health clinic. As we got the session started, I suggested that cancer...
View ArticleThe Ethics of Accessibility: It’s a Matter of Fairness
By Dan Voss | Fellow Editor’s note: This article was originally published in 2006 in the 49th Proceedings of the STC conference. The original title was “The Ethics of Special Needs: It’s a Matter of...
View ArticleContinuing Your Accessibility and Usability Education
By Karen Mardahl | Senior Member Where can a curious technical communicator learn more about accessibility and usability (or UX/user experience)? Unconferences Unconferences are a great place to start...
View ArticleIntuitive Doesn’t Mean Obvious
By Geoff Hart | Fellow The holy grail of design is to create a product that is intuitive; often this means “capable of being understood without explanation.” A vessel used to hold water, whether a...
View ArticleHow Cloud Computing Is Changing the Way We Design Software
By David Dick | Fellow Have you noticed that smartphones are replacing cell phones and laptops? This trend is not likely to change and it is driving opportunities for designing and creating Web...
View ArticleAccessibility in India: An Interview with Shilpi Kapoor
By Makarand Pandit | Associate Fellow Mak Pandit interviews Shilpi Kapoor, managing director at BarrierBreak Technologies and Net Systems Informatics, about accessibility in India. Mak Pandit: What...
View ArticleUser Experience and Accessibility at the 2013 STC Summit
By Karen Bachmann | Associate Fellow Many great sessions at this year’s Summit conference covered user experience (UX) and accessibility. They focused on how we should be bringing all users into our...
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