Global accessibility awareness starts at home

May 22, 2015

Posted by: Rachel McAlpine

Filed under: accessibility, accessible content, web content

To celebrate Global Accessibility Awareness Day 2015, FixTheWeb has produced an excellent animated video on web accessibility. Of course, the video is itself a model of accessible media.

Spot-check your own web content

May 04, 2015

Posted by: Alice Hearnshaw

Filed under: business communication, mobile content, search engines, SEO, training, web content

We all hope and trust that our content authors are creating findable, usable, valuable content for both web and mobile. But how can we be sure? Here's a quick way to spot-check your own web content without user-testing.

Google boosts ranking of mobile-friendly pages for smartphone searchers

May 04, 2015

Posted by: Rachel McAlpine

Filed under: mobile content, search engines, SEO, training, web content

Search results on mobile phone Since April 21, Google has expanded its use of mobile-friendliness as a ranking signal. They say, "This change ... will have a significant impact in our search results." Wow. Huge implications for web designers, content managers, content strategists and web writers.

When web accessibility goes down the drain

Apr 30, 2015

Posted by: Rachel McAlpine

Filed under: accessible content, intranet, training, WCAG 2.0, web content, web writing

We work with many government agencies on web accessibility. And sure, our whizz-bang accessibility experts can get your web sites to comply with national web standards, whether that's S. 508 or WCAG 2.0 or some other variation. So what's the problem?

18 years of writing for the web: how hot is that?

Nov 26, 2013

Posted by: Rachel McAlpine

Filed under: business communication, content, content authors, web content, web writing, writing

Writing on the web: contented.com for writing courses

Since 1995, writing for the web is a phrase that has come full circle: literary writing online. Business writing, writing on the web, writing for the intranet, blogging, web content, SEO writing, content marketing, mobile content, accessible content, digital communication ... what next?

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Global accessibility awareness starts at home

Spot-check your own web content

Google boosts ranking of mobile-friendly pages for smartphone searchers

When web accessibility goes down the drain

18 years of writing for the web: how hot is that?