Accessibility on the web isn't optional, it's required! Web accessibility is both a requirement and simply the right thing to do. Read on....
What We Do Mindful Vision (MV) recruits, trains, educates and provides employment for people who use assistive technologies to navigate websites and apps.
Testing And Auditing How MV provides testing and auditing. The aim of the Charity is to provide in the first instance meaningful employment and accessibility testing free of charge so that it doesn't provide an economic burden. Initially this will be for other charities followed by the educational sector.
Education And Lip Service When the web was conceived it was always envisaged to be for all people regardless of geographic location, culture, ability or language.
Meet The Team Meet the core team and trustees. This group of passionate people are growing all the time so if you are interested in being part of a great team please get in touch.
Charity MV are in the process of applying to the Charities Commission for charitable status. We feel that we can provide a better and more honest service as a not for profit organisation.
CAPTCHA TestIng Is Annoying How Apple wants to kill those annoying CAPTCHA tests which are worse for people who rely on tools like screen readers to access the internet.
Speech To Text Most of us are familiar with Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant. They have made their way into our everyday lives and for some it's part of our lives.
Accessibility Is The Way To Go If you could make some simple changes to your website that would benefit one in four of your visitors, just why wouldn’t you? And not just benefit the user but potentially your business. Its a lot of people to exclude from your offering.
How To Use Headings For Website Accessibility For blind, severely sight impaired and visually impaired people, navigating a website using keyboard commands is a common, quick way to learn about the layout of a website.
Warning: Avoid Overlay "Solutions" Unfortunately there are a number of bad actors in the space peddling snake oil. Avoid "overlay" widgets, plugins, etc. Ignore their claims.
Meet The Winners Diversity: we’ve got this nailed, right? Wait a minute… Didn’t we just forget 1.3 billion disabled people?
Do What We Say Not What We Do At MV we try to be as upfront and available to anyone that wants to improve their website. Like everyone we are having to adapt our sites as code gets modified.
Lip Service Making the world a great place to live, learn and work should be a given right for all people. Unfortunately many groups of people can sometimes feel marginalised and outcast from mainstream norms. An example of this might be people who experience the world from a different perspective because they are visually impaired.
Waymap’s App London-based Waymap wants to help guide visually impaired people to navigate their surroundings, and it’s starting with public transit.
Testing Tools For Websites It is a good idea to test your website from various perspectives. Accessibility, SEO, Speed, Meta data, it is quite a long list but here are some we use.
Button Versus Link Looking around on the internet you'll notice that most modern pages mix up links and buttons. The question is why? CSS frameworks give you the opportunity to style your links like buttons.
Screen Readers And Cookie Consents When screen reader users are browsing your website, are they hearing your cookie consent banner or popup?
