The W3C has announced the last call for feedback for WAI-ARIA, the Accessible Rich Internet Applications technical specification. The deadline for comments is March 24, 2009.
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Month: February 2009
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Articles on Accessible Twitter
Accessible Twitter is coming along well. It’s still in Alpha status, but the word is getting out! Here are a couple articles about Accessible Twitter that were published today.
Download Web Axe Episode 68 (Accessible Twitter and News)
Events
- Introduction to Usability: An Interactive Discussion, February 10, 2009
- Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS)
News
- Accessible Twitter is here! (Alpha) Created by Dennis.
- CSS Style Guide Tool. Created by Ross.
- Should we start thinking about HTML5? (despite 2022 predictions)
- Government websites are inaccessible to disabled people
- WCAG 2.0 Theme Song Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
- Screen Reader Survey Results
- WebAIM’s WCAG 2.0 Checklist
- Easy YouTube caption creator – a very rough first ‘build’
Universal Design for Web Applications is a recently published book (by O’Reilly Media November 2008) which sounds very promising. I haven’t read it yet, but it’s received favorable reviews. Topics include:
- How do you sell accessibility?
- W3C documentation
- Web page structure and design
- Forms
- Tables
- Videos
- Scripting and WAI-ARIA
There is an excellent review of the book by Accessify, which ends by stating:
I can definitely see my copy being lent to various colleagues in the coming months as I try to get them up to speed with modern web development techniques and how they relate to the world of accessibility.