Thinking About HTML 5 canvas Accessibility
The canvas element is a new element of the ‘in progress’ HTML 5 specification, it provides the ability to create dynamically generated graphics in HTML in conjunction with JavaScript. It…
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Webinar Rerecorded: Adobe Flash and WCAG 2
The Flash and WCAG 2 webinar was rerecorded due to quality issues with the original live version
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Google Chrome 2.0 Accessibility Improvements?
When Google first released Chrome back in September 2008, I carried out a quick and dirty accessibility analysis of it. With the release of Google chrome 2.0 I though it…
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Comparison of ARIA roles exposed via MSAA and UI Automation in IE8
The Microsoft MSAA API cannot provide mapping for all ARIA roles as it does not have defined roles and properties for all those defined by The ARIA specification, the Microsoft…
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AOL/TopCoder Accessibility Developer Competition
AOL/TopCoder® Accessibility Developer Competition to Culminate at 2009 TopCoder Open. Winning Accessibility Application of AOL/TopCoder Sensations Developer Challenge to be Announced June 1-4, 2009 – Las Vegas, NV
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PDF Forms & WCAG 2.0 Webinar
PDF Forms & WCAG 2.0 The recording, transcript, and slides from the PDF Forms & WCAG 2.0 webinar, presented by TPGi in conjunction with Adobe, is now available: Captioned streamed…
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Flash & WCAG 2.0 Webinar
Flash & WCAG 2.0 The recording, transcript, and slides from the second of the Flash , PDF & WCAG 2.0 webinars, presented by TPGi in conjunction with Adobe, is now…
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Adobe PDF & WCAG 2.0 Webinar
PDF & WCAG 2.0 The recording, transcript, and slides from the PDF & WCAG 2.0 webinars presented by TPGi in conjunction with Adobe, is now available: Captioned streaming media recording…
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TPGi and Adobe Present WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Webinars for Flash and PDF
TPGi & Adobe Press Release (Adobe PDF document, 72 kb) TPGi & Adobe Press Release (Microsft Word document, 37 kb) March 19, 2009 – Nashua, NH. TPGi (TPG) and Adobe…
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WAI-ARIA role support – How the MAC browsers stack up
For the roles defined in WAI-ARIA it is expected that browsers expose the role values via an accessibility API, on the Apple OS X platform the information is exposed using…
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WAI-ARIA role support – How the browsers stack up
For the roles defined in WAI-ARIA it is expected that browsers expose the role values via an accessibility API, on the Windows platform the information is usually exposed using the…
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CSUN Tweetup
The Paciello Group, Opera, and WebAIM are pleased to coordinate and sponsor a tweetup at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. The tweetup will be held Wednesday, March…
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W3C Validator for MAC OSX with Experimental WAI-ARIA Support
Chuck Houpt, developer of the Validator SAC (standalone version of the W3C validation service) for MAC OSX, has kindly added the (X)HTML DTD’s I developed (hacked) to his application. This…
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How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA?
An issue with the use of WAI-ARIA in HTML documents is that they don’t validate. When you run a HTML document containing ARIA attributes through the W3C Validator it shows…
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Colour Contrast Analyser 2.2 – updated contrast ratio
The English version of the Colour Contrast Analyser and the German, French, Czech, and Italian versions for Windows have been updated, MACÂ version all languages updated, to reflect the change…
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Testing ARIA User Input control’s navigation support.
Assistive technology such as screen readers provide keyboard short cuts for navigating the content of web pages. For user input controls such as radio buttons and edit boxes the user…
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Testing WAI-ARIA Role Support
For WAI-ARIA to be useful, to people with disabilities who use assistive technology, access to the information that ARIA roles and properties provides must be well supported across a range…
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Contrast Analyser, Version 2.1
The Colour Contrast Analyser has been updated to reflect changes in WCAG 2.0 Some important clarifications are now included: