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 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 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…
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 & 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Colour Contrast Analyser has been updated to reflect changes in WCAG 2.0 Some important clarifications are now included:
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.
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 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…
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…