Metro UI

I recently presented on Metro UI at "redefining perspectives" - an event that Sapient hosts for architects and senior developers.
Here is the video.

Accessible windows 8 Metro app

I came across this very good article on how to write accessible metro apps with html 5 and javascript. It is mostly the same things as those you would use to create an accessible web page but is a good place for someone looking for accessibility guidance for windows 8 metro apps:

IPad with a keyboard

After I learned how to type on a mechanical typewriter about 20 years ago and then on a computer some time later, I never thought I'll have to figure out how to do something as basic as hitting "enter" or "return" on a keyboard again. ...and least of all did I expect this to happen with the king of usability - an apple keyboard and an IPad combination. I am surprised about this so much so that I still think I am missing something. Untill I came across this excellent post about how to use a keyboard with the IPad I was totally unable to use my shiny new apple wireless keyboard with the new IPad to do anything useful.

Someone needs to tell apple that there is an enter key on all keyboards and that is the most obvious way of tapping something on the IPad screen from the keyboard.

DLR presentation on Techgig

I recently presented a Webinar on the techgig site on DLr integration in silverlight and WPF. A topic not really related to accessibility ...but since I've not been writing a lot about accessibility anyway, I thought I'll put the link here.


The quality of the audio is not very good...but I am hoping its just my poor connection and people were able to hear it much better.