- Do Your Flashing Ads Cause Seizures?
- FAQ on software development for the blind or visually impaired
- Why You Should Adopt An Accessible Content Strategy (business case for accessibility)
- 4 Easy Steps to Make Your Site More Usable (and accessible) to Older People
- Program to help locate screen cursor: PinPoint 3 “Never Lose Your Mouse Again”
- Use ARIA to Indicate When Form Fields Are Required
- Google Slaps People with Disabilities in the Face
- Kill Accessibility (great comments)
- Test cases with HTML5, ARIA Roles & Screen Readers
- What are your favorite accessibility & UX blogs?
- HTML5: Techniques for providing useful text alternatives
- Next accessibility unconference is A11yCamp, Guelph, Canada, June 8
- Text CAPTCHA service – alternative to image or audio CAPTCHAs
- The new GNU accessibility statement
- iPad Assistive Technology Roundup
- Slides from Access U presentation HTML5 & Accessibility
- NFB files complaints against 9 law schools for inaccessible web site
- Importance of HTML Headings for Accessibility
- Future Web Accessibility: HTML5 Semantic Elements (Part 2 in a series)
- A few problems with the concept of accessible PDFs
- Do we need a new game plan to make the Web accessible? (great comments)
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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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Podcast #79: CSUN 2010 Preview
Dennis and guest Jennison Asuncion discuss the upcoming CSUN conference, formally titled The 25th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. Discussion includes helpful hints about the conference, session previews, and special events. The event is March 22-27 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown San Diego, California.
Download Web Axe Episode 79 (CSUN 2010 Preview)
Related Links:
- WebAIM’s 2010 CSUN Session Lineup
- Adobe at CSUN 2010
- Twitter list: Speakers at CSUN 2010
- CSUN Tweetup
Here are some web accessibility conferences this year, 2010. Details for some of the annual events are not announced yet. Please comment with any changes, additions, and comments.
This post is periodically updated throughout 2010.
ATIA 2010 Orlando
January 28 – 30, 2010
Caribe Royale All-Suites Resort & Convention Center
Orlando, FL
California Web Accessibility Conference (CalWAC) (Knowbility)
February 8 – 10, 2010, Santa Clara, CA
Techshare India 2010
15th – 16th February 2010
India Habitat Centre, New Delhi, India
International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference
March 22-27, 2010
San Diego, CA
Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel
Power Up 2010 Conference and Expo
April 26 and 27, 2010
Holiday Inn Select, Columbia, Missouri
presented by Missouri Assistive Technology
W4A 2010
7th International Cross Disciplinary Conference in Web Accessibility
April 26-27, 2010
Raleigh, North Carolina, U.S.A.
Hosted by North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Techshare Mobile 2010
Presented by Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB)
Birmingham, UK
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
The John Slatin Access U (from Knowbility)
Monday, May 10th and Tuesday, May 11th , 2010
St. Edward’s University, Austin, Texas
Penn State Web 2010 Conference
June 7 and 8, 2010
Penn State Conference Center
Keynote by Jeffrey Zeldman
Aiming for Accessibility: Meeting Standards, Making Change
University of Guelph (Ontario, Canada)
June 8 and 9, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Christine Karcza of I can do This
ACCESS-IT Seminar (hosted by AbilityNet)
ICCHP
12th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs
July 14-16, 2010, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Pre-Conference July 12-13, 2010
AHEAD: Association on Higher Education And Disability
July 12-17, 2010
Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.
Annual Assistive Technology Conference (from Easter Seals Crossroads)
July 29 & 30
Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A.
*Web Axe host Dennis Lembree is speaking!
Illinois Web Accessibility Conference and Expo (Jon Gunderson)
September 29, 2010
Keynote Speaker: Victor Tsaran
Registration is closed; reached capacity
Accessibility Camp DC
October 9, 2010; 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM
MLK Library
Washington, DC, U.S.A.
HighEdWeb (Higher Education Web Professionals)
October 10-13, 2010
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A.
Assets 2010
The 12th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
October 25-27, 2010
Orlando, Florida
Accessing Higher Ground
Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference
November 15-19, 2010
Westminster, Colorado, U.S.A.
- Seattle, April 5-7
- Boston, May 24-25
- Minneapolis, July 26-27
- Washington, D.C., September 16-17
4th European eAccessibility Forum (Paris)
Featured vendor:
Mangoco.com: web design company in Virginia
Mangoco.com: web design company in Virginia
Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson.
In the United Kingdom, join the campaign for Offcom to increase audio description on TV from 10% to 20%.
Wanted: Flash and Dojo accessibility experts for contract work. Contact John Foliot at the email address: jfoliot AT stanford DOT edu.
Update on The Paciello Group’s ARIA role support: how the Windows browsers stack up.
Rate Accessible Twitter on oneforty.com.
Interviews:
- Podcast interview with Victor Tsaran of Yahoo! Victor is a Senior Accessibility Program Manager.
- Interview article with IBM’s Bill Curtis-Davidson, co-chair of Georgia Alliance for Accessible Technologies.
Event reminders:
- Accessibility Camp in Washington D.C. on October 10.
- Accessing Higher Ground 2009 near Denver, Colorado, November 10-14.