As part of my presentation at the Accessibility 2.0 Conference I demonstrated a preferences module conceived by Hans Hillen, Gez Lemon and I, as a proof of concept(s) for ways to provide cues to users allowing them to benefit from and/or have access to content that changes dynamically without a page refresh.
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The HTML5 editor has recently stated in his defence of the alt being optional:
“We truly do believe in research, hard data, and analysis, rather than hypotheticals; and we truly do believe that evidence suggests that what we are arguing for is going to improve the accessibility of the Web.”
Problem is, no “research, hard data, and […]
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The facility to detect some Assistive Technology by using Flash has been around since ActionScript 1.0 and Flash Player 6. The method has usually been referred to as a way to ‘detect screen readers’. Unfortunately this method, using the ActionScript Accessibility.isActive method, is not a ’screen reader’ detector.
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On April 3, the Telecommunications and Electronic and Information Technology Advisory Committee (TEITAC) presented its report to the Access Board on updating accessibility criteria for information and communication technologies.
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One of our dear friends and colleagues, John Slatin, recently passed away after a 3-year battle with Leukemia. This is a personal loss for me because John was diagnosed with Leukemia the same year my wife Kim was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer. John was one of the first friends to contact me when Kim […]
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It is an exciting time for proponents of WAI-ARIA (Web Accessibility Initiative - Accessible Rich Internet Applications). With support introduced in IE 8 (beta), better support in Firefox 3, planned in Opera and mooted in Safari, coupled with the recent changes to the specification making it easier to develop and deploy ARIA based widgets.
Continue reading “ARIA Toggle Button and Tri-state Checkbox examples“
Roger Hudson a friend and esteemed colleague, has taken time to write a thought provoking essay: The Evolving Web - A Pace Layering view of the development of the Web and the W3C.
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Making public statements based on limited knowledge of an assistive technology and with little understanding of how it is used, can lead to incorrect conclusions and poor implementations.
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I am pleased to announce the release of the Traditional Chinese language version of the WAT 2.0 (including a Traditional Chinese version of the Color Contrast Analyser 2.0) The software translations were provided by Jedi. He is still working on the documentation, which will be available shortly.
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At CSUN 2008, Hans Hillen from The Paciello Group and Victor Tsarin from Yahoo! presented A case study on applying WAI-ARIA to the new Yahoo! mail rich internet application.
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