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Podcast #87: Web Axe 2010 Year in Review

Download Web Axe Episode 87 (Web Axe 2010 Year in Review) Transcript of podcast 87 Transcript sponsored by Crein: Centre de recherche et d’expérimentation sur l’inclusion numérique (Centre for Research and experimentation on digital inclusion). An organization from Québec, Canada, “promoting digital inclusion of persons with disabilities”. News & Articles Web Accessibility Initiative – Mobile […]

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Fixing Alt – If Web Browsers Were Celebrities

A humorous infographic was recently published and twittered about, If Web Browsers Were Celebrities (full image). I’ve noticed more than several of these in the last few months, and one big issue about them continues to nag me: there’s no sufficient alternative text! (Also a good case for the longdesc attribute!) So I decided to […]

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Link Roundup – September 2010

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, […]

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Link Roundup – August 2010

HTML5 Issue: Longdesc Retention (W3C wiki) Raakt – The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit Accessible ARIA Tabs by @jkiss UStream videos from Montreal accessibility conference (#a11yMTL) Developing an Accessible Star Ratings Widget (YUI blog) Report Finds Five U.S. State Benefits’ Websites Inaccessible (COAT) Ten tools to help test website accessibility Accessibility in Online Teaching – a […]

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Fixing Alt – Social Media Venn Diagram Made Accessible

Social Media Venn Diagram T-Shirt from despair.comhttp://despair.com/somevedi.html Perfect scenario for the longdesc attribute! The alt I used in the image below is “Social Media Venn Diagram” Three intersection circles labeled Narcissism, ADHD, and Stalking.Narcissism and ADHD cross and labeled MySpace.Narcissism and Stalking cross and labeled Facebook.Stalking and ADHD cross and labeled FourSquare.All three (Stalking, ADHD, […]