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Improving Twitter Accessibility

Post author By Dennis
Post date January 22, 2009
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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!

roundup

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

Current News

Index of Government Guidelines for Web Sites
Adding a Map to Your Web Site, posted December 1st, 2008 by Mike Cherim
Accessibility testing tips and tools presentation
Inaccessible Recruitment Websites “An Emerging Scandal”
Screen Reader Survey

Main Segment

WCAG 2.0 finally official! WCAG 2.0 Published as Final Recommendation!
In February, Joe Clark (now retired from web accessibility ) released the final update to the WCAG Samurai’s errata. Also see The WCAG Samurai Errata are now available.
ARIA advancements; ARIA momentum and Internet Explorer
WebAIM’s WAVE 4.0 toolbar and translation project.
In November, Dennis’ first conference presentation, Ajax and Web Accessibility.
MyClientTime (previously TimeTracker) is launched! An accessible web application designed to track and report sessions between professionals and their clients.
Web Axe was nominated for “Podcast of the Year” in .net magazine’s 2008 Best of the Web awards. Boagworld won.
You can now donate to Web Axe with PayPal. See sidebar button.
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WCAG 2.0 Published as Final Recommendation!

Post author By Dennis
Post date December 12, 2008
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Yes, it’s now official! At last. WCAG 2.0 has been officially published as a final Web Standard “W3C Recommendation” on December 11, 2008. For more, read the W3C blog announcement A New Era for Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 is Finalized.

Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs

Post author By Dennis
Post date December 9, 2008
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Deborah Edwards-Onoro, a key member of Refresh Detroit, has posted an excellent article, Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs. It has even been highlighted in the Acrobatusers.com News on December 2.

Her ten detailed guidelines are:

Use a structured source document
Save/export document as tagged PDF
Add title, author, subject and keywords
Add bookmarks
Initial view
Specify the reading language
Correct the reading order
Use PDF Optimizer
Enable Adobe Reader features
Check accessibility