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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

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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:

  • Free ARIA

    Aaron Leventhal has set up a new group for people who want to help provide free tools and resources for the advancement of WAI-ARIA.

  • Google Chrome Accessibility

    Refer to Google Chrome accessibility update (07/12) Google have launched their new browser, I like many other people have been very keen to install and use it. My first impression…

  • The Helen Project – More Social Accessibility

    The Helen Project is an initiative by the American Foundation the Blind to provide all internet users, especially people with disabilities, the opportunity to register publically available feedback on the…

  • JAWS version 10 with WAI-ARIA live region support!

    I for one have been waiting to hear this news. One of the big 2 commercial screen readers will now support WAI-ARIA live regions. Let’s hope that this prompts GWMicro…