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Podcast #86: EDUCAUSE Review, AHG Preview, HTML5 Audio with Terrill Thompson

Post author By Dennis
Post date November 2, 2010
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Head shot of Terrill Thompson Dennis speaks with Terrill Thompson about a variety of topics including a summary of the EDUCAUSE conference; a preview of the Accessing Higher Ground (AHG) conference; community efforts to fix the web; HTML5 audio, video, and controls; and captioning.

Download Web Axe Episode 86 (Educause review, AHG preview, HTML5 audio with Terrill Thompson)

[Transcript of podcast 86]

Mentioned links

Creating Your Own Accessible HTML5 Media Player
The Quest for an Accessible Flash MP3 Player
Accessible University 2.0 (test exercise page)
EDUCAUSE IT Accessibility Constituent Group
Mozilla Audio Data API
DO-IT Video Search – even searches captions!

More on the EDUCAUSE Twitter backchannel

View the E10 backchannel tweets on EDUCAUSE site
#EDUCAUSE10 backchannel blog by Eric Stoller

News

WebAIM: Using VoiceOver to Evaluate Web Accessibility (and also Using NVDA to Evaluate Web Accessibility)
Topsy, a great app for searching tweets
Tips for Designing For Colorblind Users
Integrating Accessibility Through Design

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Link Roundup – October 2010

Post author By Dennis
Post date October 31, 2010
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Color Blindness Myths and Misunderstandings by @joedolson
Web Design for Dyslexic Users
British Standard 8878 on Web Accessibility
Temple Gate: An Accessible HTML5 WordPress Theme
Awesome freebie: Web #Accessibility Checklist (POUR) Desktop Wallpaper
Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 to 2.0 Transition Cheat Sheet
JAWS 12 screen reader is released
What’s new in Acrobat X accessibility (Adobe)
Accessibility is Not A Feature presentation slides by @uxprinciples from Accessibility Camp DC
Do CAPTCHAs Block Spam or Your Readers?
We Haven’t Forgotten About Accessibility, Have We?
How to Increase Your (Podcast & Blog) Audience Through Accessibility – SlideShare presentation by @podfeet from BlogWorld 2010
Meeting WCAG 2.0 with Flash
Disabling JavaScript: Asking the wrong question
JetBlue airline sued for lack of website and kiosk accessiblity. For updates follow @LFLegal
All jQuery Mobile components are ARIA accessible
ARIA Roles 101 – a good, brief introduction
Top 10 Things CIOs Need to Know About Accessibility
President Obama Signs Accessibility Act by @awkawk of Adobe
Testing title attributes as form control labels with screen readers – from Accessible Culture
Javascript Accessibility Guidelines
WCAG 2.0 AAA – A Journey Not a Destination by @mgifford
Aaron Gustafson’s presentation Progressive Enhancement with ARIA (Slideshare)

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Podcast #85: Drupal 7 Accessibility

Post author By Dennis
Post date October 21, 2010
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Dennis speaks with Everett Zufelt (@ezufelt) on Drupal and the accessibility improvements in Drupal 7 which is now in beta. Drupal is an increasingly popular open-source content management system (CMS).

Download Web Axe Episode 85 (Drupal 7 Accessibility)

[Transcript of podcast 85]

Transcript sponsored by Accessibility DC (@AccessibilityDC), meetups on accessibility in the Washington, DC, area.

Related links:

Awards

dot net magazine Best of the Web awards announce finalists October 20.
Nominate Accessible Twitter in the Mashable Awards.

Conferences

Next month is Accessing Higher Ground conference near Denver, Colorado.
Dennis will be giving a keynote address at Knowbility’s AccessU West conference in San Jose, California, January 2011.

Hot Topics

JetBlue sued for lack of accessibility in its website & kiosks. Filed by Law Office of Lainey Feingold (@LFLegal).
All jQuery Mobile components are ARIA accessible.
President Obama Signs Accessibility Act (21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2010) by Andrew Kirkpatrick (@awkawk) of Adobe.
Meeting WCAG 2.0 with Flash from Adobe.
HTML5 accessibility, holes & fixes by Steve Faulkner and Slideshare presentation and Hans Hillen i.e. structure, form controls, canvas, audio/video.

jobs

Web Accessibility Jobs

A good sign! Here are more than several job openings relating to web accessibility posted within the last month or so. (U.S. and Canada.)

Facebook: User Experience – Accessibility (Palo Alto, CA)
Salesforce.com seeks Senior Accessibility Specialist (San Francisco, CA)
Contract job Web Portal #Accessibility Business Analyst (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Online Communications Coordinator/Web Developer at The National Abortion Federation (Washington, D.C.)
ADVANTIS Global Services seeks Senior Front End Developer (Charlotte NC)
CGI Consulting seeks a Section 508 Accessibility Specialist (Fairfax VA)
Deque Systems seeks a Section 508 Tester (Washington, D.C.)
Apple has four accessibility engineering opportunities (Cupertino, CA)

For more, on Twitter, follow my account @webaxe and @a11yjobs. Kudos also to @ppatel and @lauraupcott.

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Link Roundup – September 2010

Post author By Dennis
Post date September 30, 2010
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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