On the blog Bite Size Standards, a post by Ann McMeekin Colour with Contrast discusses color and accessibility, and also provides some excellent links to tools and references.
Month: February 2007
Dennis and guest Joe Dolson discuss the definition of Web Accessibility including the W3C definition and WCAG 2.0, universal access, balance of effort, a principal?
Download Web Axe Episode 41 (Definition of Web Accessibility)
Links:
- Trying to Define Web Accessibility from Joe Dolson
- Web Axe Definition
- Webcredible Definition
- Wikipedia Definition
- W3C WAI Definition
Oracle sued by blind workers in Texas
This has to do with software accessibility, rather than web accessibility, but very relevant to the movement and the cause…
Oracle sued by blind workers in Texas
Oracle is being taken to task in a lawsuit that complains software it sold to the state of Texas is unusable by blind employees.
The suit, filed in Texas state court, alleges Oracle’s human resources software and other products do “not provide equal access to blind persons using screen access technology”. One plaintiff says he is unable to review or enter hours worked, leave taken or information concerning employees he supervises without the help of a sighted colleague.
New Dutch accessibility law
New Dutch accessibility law (QuirksBlog)
The Dutch accessibility law is awesome (456 Berea St)
required by law to use:
* valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0
* CSS and semantic HTML and separation of structure and presentation
* progressive enhancement
* the W3C DOM (instead of the old Microsoft document.all)
* meaningful values of class and id
* meaningful alt attributes on all images
Dennis and Ross discuss different methods of implementing CAPTCHA on the web and how to make it accessible.
Download Web Axe Episode 40 (About CAPTCHA and Accessibility)
CAPTCHA Services
- captchas.net
- Protect Web Form
- PHP Contact Form
- AuthImage
- WP-Gatekeeper
- Do your own!
References
- CAPTCHA on Wikipedia
- Proposal for an Accessible Captcha
- Inaccessibility of CAPTCHA
- Alternatives to Visual Turing Tests on the Web
- CAPTCHA is bad for accessibility
- CAPTCHA.biz
News
- Improving accessibility for today’s AJAX – To hack or not? from Access Matters
- Refresh Detroit February meetup