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Podcast #68: Accessible Twitter and News

Download Web Axe Episode 68 (Accessible Twitter and News)

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Book: Universal Design for Web Applications

Universal Design for Web Applications is a recently published book (by O’Reilly Media November 2008) which sounds very promising. I haven’t read it yet, but it’s received favorable reviews. Topics include:

  • How do you sell accessibility?
  • W3C documentation
  • Web page structure and design
  • Forms
  • Tables
  • Videos
  • Scripting and WAI-ARIA

There is an excellent review of the book by Accessify, which ends by stating:

I can definitely see my copy being lent to various colleagues in the coming months as I try to get them up to speed with modern web development techniques and how they relate to the world of accessibility.

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WCAG 2.0 Checklist from WebAIM

WebAIM has recently published a valuable WCAG 2.0 Checklist—objective recommendations, or techniques, under each Success Criteria item for each Guideline. Like WCAG 2, the Guidelines are organized under the four principles: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust. WebAIM is asking for feedback on the list.

In WebAIM’s words, the checklist is described as:

a simple checklist that presents the principles and techniques of WCAG 2.0 in a more user-friendly, understandable format

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Improving Twitter Accessibility

I admit I’m hooked on Twitter, but unfortunately, like many web sites, it’s not very web accessible.

Thanks to Gez Lemon of Juicy Studio, you may now implement a Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script to help with web accessibility, specifically keyboard use. With the script, the user is now able to view the Favorite, Reply and Delete links for each tweet in the timeline on the focus event (in addition to on current mouseover event, which obviously requires a mouse).

In order to use the script, you have to install Greasemonkey which is a Firefox add-on, so it obviously requires the Firefox web browser.

Learn more about it in the Juicy Studio article Twitter Focus.

UPDATE (Feb 3)

  • The script was broken due to Twitter changing code on their site, but it is now fixed.
  • I (Dennis) am working on an Accessible Twitter web site and hope to launch it within a couple weeks!
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Web Axe 2008 in Review

Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties (my computer’s power supply failing), the podcast for this post will not be done. -Dennis

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