#25088
An Accessibility Frontier: Cognitive Disabilities and Learning Difficulties
With this paper... we are primarily concerned with the problems people with cognitive and learning difficulties might have when using the web and offering a few practical suggestions on how these problems might be addressed.
Hudson, Roger, Russ Weakley and Peter Firminger. Usability.com.au (2005). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Cognitive Psychology
#25096
Developing Sites for Users with Cognitive Disabilities and Learning Difficulties 
This article examines the types of problems visitors may encounter when using the web, with insightful and practical suggestions on how to develop websites that are inclusive for people with cognitive impairments and learning difficulties.
Hudson, Roger, Russ Weakley and Peter Firminger. Juicy Studio (2004). Design>Web Design>Accessibility
#25103
ELT on the NET: The Internet In English Language Teaching
Well before most us come to the end of our working lives use of the Internet and World Wide Web in education will be standard practice.
Hudson, Roger. Usability.com.au (1997). Articles>Education>Online>Australia
#25098
Home Stayers And Trench Diggers
This paper offers some observations on the ways 9 to 12 year children search for information on websites and how this may differ from the search behaviour of adults.
Hudson, Roger. Usability.com.au (2002). Articles>Web Design>Usability>Search
#25089
Hyperlinks, Frames and Intellectual Property
This paper is concerned with how the use of hyperlinks and frames to present material from another website may infringe the rights of the originating site.
Hudson, Roger. Usability.com.au (1999). Articles>Intellectual Property>Copyright>Hypertext
#25100
Internet Advertising and the Law
The Internet is a new marketing frontier where the rules and regulations are rapidly evolving. Governments throughout the world aim to redress this imbalance by providing protection to their citizens through laws and regulations which control the use of advertising.
Hudson, Roger. Usability.com.au (1999). Articles>Web Design>Legal>Marketing
#30189
The rapid growth in the use of PDFs on Websites has lead to increasing concerns about accessibility, particularly for the users of screen reading technology, which converts text into synthetic speech or electronic Braille.
Hudson, Roger. WebUsability (2004). Articles>Accessibility>Software>Adobe Acrobat
#25101
Reflections on Site Usability and the State of Flow
Although the general performance of commercial sites is poor at the moment, increasing awareness of Web-user behaviour and the importance of site usability will improve this situation.
Hudson, Roger. Usability.com.au (1998). Articles>Web Design>Usability
#25099
Usability: A Key Issue for Kids' Sites
The children starting primary school this year can be truly described as the first of the web generation, for all were born after 1992 when the World Wide Web as we know it today came into existence. The ability of web sites to stimulate and satisfy the needs of these kids, along with those of all other web users, will largely depend on web site usability.
Hudson, Roger. Usability.com.au (2000). Articles>Web Design>Usability>Search
#25102
Virtual Classroom Project Report
The aim of the Virtual Classroom project is to create an environment that will help stimulate purposeful communication between English language learners across the globe.
Hudson, Roger. Usability.com.au (1998). Articles>Education>Online>International
#32889
Page Source Order and Accessibility
In this presentation, the authors report on a survey and testing with screen reader users designed to determine how the placement of navigation in the source order (before or after content) affects accessibility.
Hudson, Roger and Russ Weakley. OzeWAI (2005). Presentations>Web Design>Accessibility
#34428
Refreshable Braille and the Web
Many people have not had the opportunity to see someone use a refreshable Braille device to access the web. I recently videoed Bruce Maguire describing how he uses the Internet with a refreshable Braille display. He also demonstrates finding a book on the Amazon site. Transcript of the video is at the end of this document.
Hudson, Roger. DingoAccess (2009). Articles>Accessibility>User Interface>Podcasts
#34642
It is six months since the release of WCAG 2.0 and I thought it might be interesting to see how extensively it has been adopted as a bench mark for determining web content accessibility. Over this time, I have felt that the rate of adoption has been relatively slow and the number of countries and other regulatory authorities now using WCAG 2 is lower than I expected.
Hudson, Roger. DingoAccess (2009). Articles>Web Design>Accessibility>Standards
