Hands-On Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) @ SXSW Interactive 2009
Martin Kliehm has proposed a panel for South by Southwest (SXSW) held March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas. : ‘Hands-On Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)’ .
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Do WAI-ARIA – Google Is!
There a bunch of interesting posts on Marco’s blog about WAI-ARIA: The first one ARIA in Gmail #1: Alerts is about the use of the WAI-ARIA role=”alert” and its use…
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A Brave New alt in {HTML5}
Update 08/08/09 What the King of HTML5 giveth, he taketh away. The use of { } is now HTML5 history. You can wonder at the greatness of his latest proclamations…
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Social Accessibility – Threes a Crowd?
I started to write a post about the new social accessibility tools/services that have been announced in the last week or so: IBM Social Accessibility Project and Webvisum.
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Circumventing Hegemony in the HTML WG
Raising Issues In order to raise an issue or proposal in regards to the HTML5 specification you do not have to be a member of the W3C HTML Working Group…
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Sucking on WCAG 2.0
While at @media I had the opportunity to meet up with Lachlan Hunt, who works at Opera and is a fellow W3C HTML5 working group member. He did a short…
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WAI-ARIA, it’s Easy – @media 2008
Last Friday I had the pleasure of presenting at @media 2008 on WAI-ARIA, the Web Accessibility Initiative Accessible Rich Internet Applications specification. The slides from the presentation WAI-ARIA It’s Easy…
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Making Twitter Tweet – Using the TPGi Notifier
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…
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HTML5 and alt: The editors new clothes
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…
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Developer Beware: Using Flash to Detect Screen Readers
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…
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Advisory Committee Presents Report on Updated 508 Standards
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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Volunteer to Support the John Slatin Fund Accessibility Project
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…
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Roger Hudson on the evolving web and Webstock interviews
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…
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How JAWS reads text
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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Web Accessibility Toolbar 2.0 Chinese language version
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…
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Applying WAI-ARIA to Yahoo! Mail
At CSUN 2008, Hans Hillen from TPGi 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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IE 8: alt change and longdesc weirdness
Update for IE 8b2 I have updated the results for IE8 b2, and included tests for input type=”image” Tests and results for HTML 4.01 transitional. Tests and results for HTML…
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IE 8 beta with WAI ARIA SUPPORT!
This is amazing news in terms of WAI ARIA implementation ! The W3C defines ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications) as a syntax for making dynamic Web content and custom UI…