About this site

A website is needed

Everybody needs a website these days. That is if you are a professional. It is like having a business card. I was asked what do I consider in designing a personal website.

As I have said, a website is like your calling card, what do you want to be on it? What do you want to be known about you, how do you want them to know you? I would assume you want it to be professional - it is a type of calling card. If you want it personal - its best to have a blog.

It needs to have clean lines, easy on the eye and easy to read and accessible. Accessible in all aspects: language, architecture and easily navigated. Accessible also to be compliant to Disability Discrimination Act (DDA)

About me

I am an information speicialist who is immensely curious and would like to know everything. I am also a wheelchair user. I am passionate abut accessibility, diversity issues, cultural issues and food.

About this site

I hope this site is sufficiently accessible for all. I did this sometime ago when I was learning how to make websites. I am not a techie, nowadays, there are many web developers who know about making sites accessible and then go very technical. I prefer a holistic approach. It also would take me a long time to redo the site! Because I am slow.

Accessible Design

I started off being interested in information architecture. My interest in the design of accessible websites when I was in graduate school for a Masters in Information Studies(MSIS) at the School of information, University of Texas, Austin.

From there I earned an Endorsement of Specialization in Information Design. I am committed to making websites accessible in all aspects: following universal design, accessibility for the visually impaired, and those using technology in the digital divide.

Following the principles of Universal Design means juggling the needs of the needs of the community using assistive technology with those who are cognitively challenged. Accessibility for one meant prose while visual mapping helps the other. Information design should take account of both needs without exclusion of one for the other.

All these are big topics in themselves but I have grown to be passionate about each of them. Somehow they are interlinked and belong to the global issue of accessibility.