Category Archives: accessibility

BBC set a good example for site redesign

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.

Glen Scott

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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

Glen Scott

I’m a freelance software developer with 18 years’ professional experience in web development. I specialise in creating tailor-made, web-based systems that can help your business run like clockwork. I am the Managing Director of Yellow Square Development.

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