All posts by Nomensa

17th January 2012 by Nomensa | User Experience

The study of well-being focuses on the topics of positive psychological functioning and experience. It has captured the interest of moral philosophers for centuries. In this article I draw parallels between the fields of well-being and UX in order to illustrate the factors that define and foster ‘Positive UX’ and the implications this may have on measuring good experience with the web.

21st November 2011 by Nomensa | Web Accessibility

Different browsers offer different levels of support for HTML5 audio and video. Where some browsers support one type of media file other browsers will fail to do so. While browser vendors continue to implement HTML5 features support should get better and better. However, the situation at the time of writing dictates that we cannot (and certainly should not) assume that a browser will play HTML5 media.

7th September 2011 by Nomensa | YouTube

A quick tutorial on how to provide alt text for different sorts of images in such a way that people using assistive technologies will be able to understand the purpose of the image.

23rd August 2011 by Nomensa | Web Accessibility

Since the mid 1990s web developers have had an ever increasing amount of control over the presentation of the web pages that they develop. This is largely due to the introduction of CSS (cascading style sheets) and its adoption amongst major browser vendors, both past and present. Although the adoption of the CSS specification has not been without issues it has made it possible for web developers to build visually imaginative and engaging web pages and user interfaces.

29th July 2011 by Nomensa | Web Accessibility

In this post I will identify some of the common techniques that are used to hide content and will attempt to identify the implications of using these techniques. I will also attempt to identify appropriate situations in which each technique could practically be put to good use. All of the techniques that we have identified below have been tested with Jaws 12 and NVDA 2011.1 using Firefox 4, Firefox 5 and Internet Explorer 8. In addition the examples were tested with voiceover on Apple OSX 10.6.4 with Safari.

17th June 2011 by Nomensa | Web Accessibility

Introduction On the 22nd March 2011 version 4 of the ever popular Firefox browser was released. With this release came a myriad of additions and improvements. On the whole the team at Mozilla have done a great job. However, this is not to say that the browser has been improved in all areas. After updating [...]

13th May 2011 by Nomensa | User Experience

Charities, like most organisations in the world, are trying to jump on the iPhone wagon to reach a wider audience and to spread the word about each of the causes they support. Although many charities have created an iPhone app, only a few apps have transcended to a greater audience due to its uniqueness and the way they exploit the capabilities this device offers.

5th May 2011 by Nomensa | Web Accessibility

With the elections and referendum on the voting system used in the UK happening today, we at Nomensa have been wondering what would happen if the deciding vote were based on the level of accessibility achieved by each of the three main political parties websites. To a certain extent, accessibility has the potential to have more of an effect on individual voting than you would first expect.