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Podcast #80: Web Accessibility Successes

Post author By Dennis
Post date April 6, 2010
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Dennis and Ross review a few excellent web sites. Each provides great accessibility as well as being standards-compliant.

Download Web Axe Episode 80 (Web Accessibility Successes)

[transcript of podcast 80]

Announcements

Ross’ relaunch of 3.7 Designs
Assistive Technology Boogie (Flash) by Inclusive Technologies
Volunteers/donations wanted for transcribing Web Axe podcasts
CSUN was great! A few of the many folks Dennis met and hung out with:
Future Midwest Detroit

News & Articles

iPad releases — accessibility

HTML5 + Quake

Canvas element is powerful, also huge accessibility concern

When ever you use :hover, also use :focus
Microsoft offers UK users a choice in browser
Hat tip to all the techie 2010 April Fools Day jokers!

Main Segment

Testco

In 2001, a new easy-access version of Tesco.com was launched, making the online shopping service available to a higher number of customers. In 2002-3, the web-based business made a profit of £12.2 million, more than 30 times that made in the previous year.
Reference: 3 case studies on Universal Design.

Sydney For All

Won 2009 Vision Australia award for web site accessibility.

LF Legal

Developed by Mike Cherim
Article on 2-year Anniversary
Built on WordPress!

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Interview with Jennison by Steve

Post author By Dennis
Post date April 2, 2010
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If you missed it from Twitter a month-and-a-half ago, Steve Grobschmidt (@AquinasWI) published an interview with accessibility expert Jennison Asuncion (@Jennison) in a 3-part series. It’s published on Steve’s blog “the art of web accessibility”. I recommend reading the interview as well as checking out Steve’s blog. Both Steve and Jennison are excellent contributors to the web accessibility community.

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Link Roundup including CSUN – March 2010

Post author By Dennis
Post date March 31, 2010
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Another set of great links on web accessibility for March 2010. In addition, see below for post-CSUN links, roundups and presentations!

Be Kind to the Color Blind – ColourLovers
Why Captioning? – Stanford University
Stop Using JAWS for Web Accessibility Testing? – Clear Helper
Making the mobile internet accessible for all – ComputerWeekly
NCAA college basketball tournament bracket – Terrill Thompson
Problems with CAPTCHA and audio CAPTCHA alternative – groups.drupal
What Is A Braille Display And How It Is Used – Even Grounds
Call for speaker proposals for “13th Annual Accessing Higher Ground” conference. First round due April 2.
Why websites shouldn’t accommodate disabled users – by Pete Love (e.g. use universal design)
Accessibility Review: Target.com – by Joe Dolson (post lawsuit)
Screen Readers And WAI-ARIA Landmark Roles – Léonie Watson
Variations on Ginader’s [Awesome] Accessible Tabs – Accessible Culture
Accessibility of Links by Steve Grobschmidt
Web Accessibility Preferences Are For Sissies? – WebAIM
Boston Accessibility Unconference is May 15
Web Accessibility Fears and Ways to Conquer Them – Even Grounds

CSUN Summaries

CSUN Conference 2010 – great summary by Nicholas Zakas
Insights into the 25th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference – The DAISY Planet
CSUN 2010 recap – Marco of Mozilla
More Audio Coverage of CSUN 2010 – Blind Bargains [no transcriptions]
CSUN photos from Dennis – a dozen or show snapshots

CSUN Presentations

Stanford Captioning System: A Workflow Model for Producing Captioned Media – includes link to PDF of presentation
Download the Adaptech presentation on social media use & accessibility; view the entire survey, too.
Importance of Accessibility for a Successful and Future-Proof Business – Artur Ortega of Yahoo
Accessibility of Twitter – by and Joseph O’Connor and Dennis Lembree

Addendum

Adobe Slides from CSUN 2010 Talks
DAISY Consortium’s Presentation at CSUN (captioned video)
Point-and-Chat info and presentations (AAC application)
Presentations from WebAIM – great stuff!

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Accessibility Lists on Twitter

Post author By Dennis
Post date March 30, 2010
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Here’s a list of Twitter Lists targeting web accessibility.

http://twitter.com/webaxe/web-accessibility from me, @webaxe

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Fixing Alt – Social Media Venn Diagram Made Accessible

Post author By Dennis
Post date March 23, 2010
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Social Media Venn Diagram T-Shirt from despair.com
http://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, and Narcissism) cross and labeled Twitter.

Social Media Venn Diagram