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Practical, Entry-Level Web Accessibility

Practical, Entry-Level Web Accessibility from Mike Cherim at Beast-Blog is a good article on the basics of web accessibility. Topics include:

  • Proper Element Use
  • Laying Out Your Page
  • Apply Links the Right Way
  • Alt and Title Attributes
  • Content Visibility

Comments are now closed to Mike’s post, but I just barely got in my comments.

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Interview on Flash and Accessibility

18 Questions for Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan on Flash and Accessibility is a great post from Wait till I come, the blog of web developer and Javascript expert Christian Heilmann. Chris interviews Flash experts Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan on Flash Accessibility. Questions include:

  • Can you elaborate what accessibility means in terms of Flash?
  • Is ActionScript a necessity to achieve accessibility?
  • Can Flash interact with screenreaders? If so, how?
  • Can pure Flash applications ever be as accessible as HTML solutions?
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Podcast #33: Interview with Patrick Lauke

Dennis and Ross interview Patrick Lauke. Patrick is the webmaster at University of Salford and a vital team member of Accessify.com. He is author of a chapter in the book Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance.

Download Episode 33 (Interview with Patrick Lauke)

Transcript of Web Axe 33, with notes and links (courtesy of Patrick Lauke)

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Interview with Paul Boag from Boagworld

If you don’t know him yet, Paul Boag is a web standards and accessibility enthusiast from the UK who runs a very popular web site boagworld.com (blog, forum, and podcast). Paul is a founding partner of Headscape development company. He is speaking at the Refresh06 conference next month in Orlando, Florida.

Download Episode 31 (Interview with Paul Boag)

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Interview with Author Christian Heilmann

Chris Heilmann is the author of Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax: From Novice to Professional. He’s also a co-author of Web Accessibility: Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance. He’s writes an excellent blog Wait Till I Come and has contributed many articles in web development including several articles to A List Apart and SitePoint. He is also a member of the Web Standards Project.

Download Web Axe Episode 29 (Interview with Christian Heilmann)

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