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Addendum: CheckEngine USA is now Web Overhauls.
Author: Dennis
Dennis explains some types of disabilites and different kinds of tools used to help access the web.
Download Web Axe Episode 25 (About Impairments and Assistive Technology)
Disability Types:
Alternative Devices:
- How People with Disabilities Use the Web (W3C)
- How do disabled people use computers? (Joe Clark)
- Adaptive Technology Resource Center (Univ of Toronto)
- Assistive Technology
Categories
Refresh06 Conference
I’m trying to make it to the Refresh06 Conference in Orlando, Florida this fall. Looks like a good one. Topics include web standards and web accessibility. Speakers include Andy Budd, Cameron Moll, and Paul Boag. November 16th – 18th, 2006; $349 per person.
Presenting, for Opera users, the Web Accessibility Toolbar for Opera. The teams from Web Accessibility Tools Consortium, Vision Australia and The Paciello Group have developed for the Opera browser the useful toolbar that they built for Windows IE.
WCAG Guidelines 9.4 (Priority 3) says to create a logical tab order through links, form controls, and objects. The “tabindex” attribute is great because it does exactly that — it specifies the position of the current element in the tabbing order for the current document. But are they needed?
Download Web Axe Episode 24 (Tab Index — Why)
The basic code:
Links:
- WCAG Guidelines 9.4 (Priority 3)
- WCAG Techniques for logical tab order
- WCAG definition of “tabindex”
- WebAIM – Drawbacks to “tabindex”