- Bonus! An offer to the HTML5 team to save longdesc by Vlad Alexander at XStandard
- Landmark Technology Access Bill Heads to President Obama’s Desk
- Accessibility testing tools (Steve Faulkner, The Paciello Group)
- Response to HTML5 editor on Canvas accessibility (by Rich Schwerdtfeger)
- Adobe’s Andrew Kirkpatrick interviewed on Accessibility in Government (video)
- Accessibility for web writers, part 1: Introduction
- Assistive Technologies for Online Learning
- Web Accessibility day course by RNIB in Edinburgh (Oct) & London (Nov)
- Should Sighted Developers Use Screenreaders To Test Accessibility? (great comments!)
- Using Accessible Twitter With JAWS Screen Reader
- HTML5 Canvas Accessibility in Internet Explorer 9 by@stevefaulkner
- 20 Sites Assessed For Cognitive Web Accessibility
- Top 4 Reasons Why You Need to Address Web Accessibility
- WebAIM Aids eBay Accessibility Efforts
- Blind woman sues Canadian feds over online access
- Very entertaining video explaining closed captions (YouTube)
- Does your website legally need to be accessible? (U.S.)
- Web Design Guidelines for Low Bandwidth
- Web #Accessibility, Structured Negotiations & DOJ Rulemaking
- 10 Tools for Evaluating Web Design Accessibility
- WCAG 2.0 for Usability Specialists presentation (W3C) (April 2010)
- Facebook patent for ‘social CAPTCHA’ fails on accessibility
- Accessibility and the Law: How good UX can keep you out of court (U.S.)
- Raakt – The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit
Month: September 2010
Categories
Web Accessibility Law
Categories
Screen readers and Testing
Response to article by @vavroom Should Sighted Developers Use Screenreaders To Test Accessibility?
http://accessibility.net.nz/blog/should-sighted-developers-use-screenreaders-to-test-accessibility/
Good to test with screen reader, but best to have screenreader users themselves test a web site for accessibility.
As far as some accessible social media, here are my suggestions:
Twitter – Of course, use http://www.AccessibleTwitter.com
YouTube – http://icant.co.uk/easy-youtube/ OR http://tube.majestyc.net/
Facebook – http://m.facebook.com
LinkedIn – http://m.linkedin.com
MySpace – Nothing
So I’m starting to regret not attending the AHG conference this year (Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference). I attended (and presented) at the previous two events. This year looks just as good, if not better.
AHG 2010 will be November 15-19 at the Westin Hotel in Westminster, Colorado, located about 13 miles from downtown Denver. It’s a really nice venue with nice restaurants nearby.
Over 60 presentations and hands-on sessions and 35 hours of hands-on workshops are scheduled. You can read the session descriptions here. Maybe you’ll see me on the list next year!
The fees are affordable, and an early registration discount is available until October 1. Groups of 5 who register together are eligible for a 10% discount. You may register for AHG here.
I think something new this year are special session tracks from which to choose. The tracks are: