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Comment on About Derek Featherstone by Vestibular Perspective On Websites…… | Journey From Disabled To Abled

Vestibular Perspective On Websites…… | Journey From Disabled To Abled — Fri, 21 Oct 2011 18:49:22 +0000

[...] Derek Featherstone, accessibility expert, is kind enough to look into a possible solution. I have tried to disable JavaScript and disable images but neither option worked. Most websites became unusable. Derek asked me to provide 10 websites that give me trouble. I wanted to give the vestibular community an opportunity to express what websites are bothersome to them when viewing the web. However, I started to think there are conditions outside vestibular disorders where movement and motion on a website could be bothersome. Would motion and movement on websites be an issue for the Dystonia community, Ataxia community, etc? My friend AKA my brother Blake Watson doctored up the code on a beautiful Automattic theme so we could have the following site. [...]

Comment on About Derek Featherstone by DesignFestival: Design Festival Podcast #8: Web Standards with Derek Featherstone

Fri, 24 Jun 2011 19:04:28 +0000

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Comment on Living Contradiction by feather

feather — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 18:04:15 +0000

Hi Rob,

To what specifically are you referring?

Comment on Living Contradiction by Rob

Rob — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 17:11:08 +0000

http://www.accessibiliteweb.com/stuff/a11ySummit/Featherstone-Mobile-a11y.pdf

Talk about a “living contradiction” …

Comment on AccessU West: San Jose by feather

feather — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:28:06 +0000

Abi — I’ll let as many people know as I can. Great idea — will I see you there?

Comment on AccessU West: San Jose by Abi Jones

Abi Jones — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 04:05:58 +0000

Derek, would you mind letting folks know that BayCHI (I’m a volunteer) is putting together a group so that folks can attend AccessU at 30% off the regular registration fee? All of the info is at http://www.baychi.org/accessu/. And yes, AccessU is aware of the BayCHI group discount.

Comment on Reviving Simply Accessible by feather

feather — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 01:17:54 +0000

I’m happy to see it come back to life too, Ruth :) Things are going very well here — hope the same is true for you!

Comment on Reviving Simply Accessible by Ruth Ellison

Ruth Ellison — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 21:26:37 +0000

Great to see the site revived Derek! Hope all is going well in your part of the world.

Comment on Needs More Whitespace by Drew Barnard

Drew Barnard — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 23:28:12 +0000

Nicely said :)

Comment on Turn Around the Guilt by Matt Robin

Matt Robin — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:15:19 +0000

Derek, really, you’re going to start ‘loving yourself’ more? Don’t fall in to the ‘Web Designer’ cliché (that every non-web professional loves to hate, true or otherwise). Next you’ll be wearing only black t-shirts and stroking white kittens! Where will the madness end?! Haha! ;)

Keep at it – with all your new articles dude.