Web AxeIn a recent article on ZDNet UK, a lawyer warns that PDFs fail on accessibility. This is a good reminder that when web accessibility is addressed, many times people fail to make their Acrobat files accessible. So, don’t forget your PDFs!
PDF documents on Web sites and intranets need to be accompanied by accessible HTML or text versions if they are to comply with disability legislation, a leading technology lawyer has claimed.
Guest Mark McKay and Dennis talk about AJAX and accessibility. Topics include:
Download Web Axe Episode 49 (AJAX and Accessibility)
In his article Avoiding Extreme Accessibility, Mike Cherim describes several examples of over-doing it when coding for web accessibility, and that moderation is the key. Topics include:
Web accessibility expert Jared Smith has posted an excellent list of blogs relating to web accessibility. Thankfully Web Axe made the list! He goes on to list other fantastic blogs and news aggregators. Apparently, Jared’s quite the “RSS Junkie”.
The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2.0) Working Draft documents were updated 17 May 2007. These documents incorporate resolutions to comments from the 2006 Last Call Working Draft. The Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) encourages you to review the WCAG 2.0 Working Draft and submit any new comments. Please see the additional information in:
Please send comments by 29 June 2007.