Month: January 2013

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Accessibility-Related Jobs and Resources

Post author By Dennis
Post date January 15, 2013
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Several great job opportunities in accessibility to start the new year!

Senior Operations Analyst – Accessibility at Target in Minneapolis, MN.
Section 508 Software Tester for a telecommuting role.
~~Accessibility Specialist for an initial 6-month consulting opportunity in Wilmington, DE~~
QA Tester/ADA Coordinator at University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS.
~~Accessibility Specialist at Modis in Wilmington, DE~~.
~~Accessibility Specialist at Tekmark Global Solutions in San Francisco, CA~~.
Request For Response (RFR) for IT Accessibility Services for State of Massachusetts.
Web Accessibility Engineer wanted at W3C in Beijing, China.
Added Jan 16: 3 positions at AbilityNet in UK.
Added Jan 21: Senior Business Mgmt (Web Accessibility) at AT&T in Durham, NC.
Added Jan 21: Accessibility Design Consultant at Humana in Chicago, IL.
Added Jan 23: Digital Accessibility Specialist (contract) at Modis in Toronto, Ontario.

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For more on Twitter, follow me @WebAxe, @a11yJobs, and @Accessible_Jobs.
AT Work job board.
Also, if you are on LinkedIn, consider joining The Digital Accessibility Career Exchange.

Podcast #97: Responsive Design and Accessibility

Post author By Dennis
Post date January 7, 2013
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Dennis speaks with George Zamfir on his background, his activity in Toronto, and how Responsive Web Design (RWD) can benefit web accessibility. The conversation stems from George’s talk Responsive Web Design & Accessibility from the Accessibility Camp Toronto last fall. A notable quote from the 50-minute conversation:

Let go of fixed widths

George is a web accessibility consultant for Good W-ALLY (@good_wally) in Toronto, Canada. He and @Jennison co-host the Toronto Accessibility & Inclusive Design meetup.

As techniques for usability and accessibility have some cross-over, so do RWD and accessibility. Case in point, this recent article on Mashable, 6 Easy Ways to Make Your Website Tablet-Friendly. The main points of George’s presentation are that responsive web design:

is like a user’s custom stylesheet
adheres to web standards
thinks mobile first & uses progressive enhancement (PE)
caters to users’ needs

Download Web Axe Episode 97 (Responsive Design and Accessibility)

[transcript of podcast 97]

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Web Axe 2012 Year in Review

Post author By Dennis
Post date January 1, 2013
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It was another great year for Web Axe and its creator Dennis Lembree.

Early in 2012, we published the Podcast 94: Women of CSUN12 featuring six female presenters (one of my favorite podcasts); then a quick review of the conference.

May was the month of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Here’s the GAAD podcast and Reflecting on GAAD by guest author Jennison.

To address the most bothersome trend of the year, we wrote Placeholder Attribute Is Not A Label!

Mid-year, Dennis was fortunate enough to attend Google IO12; here’s the blog, Google IO12 Review and Accessibility.

In September, we published a extensive book review on Pro HTML5 Accessibility. Then, Dennis presented How To Build An Accessible Web Application virtually at the Boston Accessibility (Un)Conference.

In October, a huge change came to the New Web Axe Website! We moved from Blogger to WordPress. The RSS feed has also changed. Please update your links.

In November came Accessibility Camp LA and a podcast featuring great improvements in WordPress accessibility.

Lastly, here are some blog responses and website reviews over the year:

Looking forward to another big year in 2013!

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