About About uiAccess
uiAccess was developed in 2001 as a free resource for universal interface design and usable accessibility information. In 2003, I joined W3C WAI and then didn't have time to do much with uiAccess. You can still find some useful and currently-relevant information from the uiAccess home page.
In early 2015, I reduced my time at W3C and am putting more effort into related projects:
- Providing web accessibility training and Accessible UX Seminars.
- The TAdER Project — Text Adaptability is Essential for Reading — that aims to encourage product managers to include specific text customization functionality in their products (including Adobe Reader for PDF, web browsers, e-book and EPUB readers, other 'user agents', and content) by:
- Raising awareness and understanding of users' needs among tool developers, standards developers, content providers, and policy makers.
- Providing information to support standards developers and policy makers to include specific text customization requirements.
- Providing suggestions to tools developers and content providers on including specific text customization functionality.
- Updating the book Just Ask: Integrating Accessibility Throughout Design, which
helps designers, developers, and managers
create websites, software, hardware, and consumer products that:- are accessible to people with disabilities and older users,
- provide a better user experience for all users, and
- help organizations maximize the benefits of accessibility.
I welcome feedback on any of this!
Best,
~ Shawn
Improvements
Since I developed this site in my non-existant spare time, I have not been able to polish it. If you have issues to report, I would like to know about them in case I can find time to fix them. If you have suggestions for site improvement, I'd really appreciate your input!
Disclaimer
Information on this site is based on the knowledge, experience, and best judgments of Shawn Lawton Henry and other contributors. No warranties or guarantees are implied. Shawn Lawton Henry shall not be liable for any special, indirect, incidental, consequential, punitive or exemplary damages based on this information.
