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Leona Tomlinson rounds up a great list of considerations when building a Web site to help ensure that it is actually accessible, rather than systematically meeting a list of guidelines. > …we must look further than the guidelines if we are to create websites which are accessible to users with disabilities and the assistive technologies […]
And Web accessibility advocates everywhere are completely deflated. I know I’m a couple weeks late on this but I had to chime in. I’ve been following this case over time in hopes that we’d get some clarification to bring the Americans with Disabilities Act in line with the current media landscape. As with with most […]
Everything I need to know about accessibility I learned from Star Wars by Derek Featherstone. Small band of rebels versus the unfeeling evil empire :) A good motivational, conceptual overview of Accessibility. Not much by way of example or technique, but still good. Check out my notes below.
As AJAX has risen, we have also read frequently that it’s not very accessible. We have a few choices: don’t worry about it, and let people with disabilities cope with the current state of affairs. Accept the pronouncements that it’s not accessible and go back to our pre-AJAX methods, or, learn why some AJAX techniques […]
In the case of the National Federation of the Blind v. Target, Judge Marilyn Hall Patel ruled that retailers can be sued if their websites are not accessible to the blind. Hooray!!
frequency decoder, Unobtrusive Date-Picker Widgit An attempt at writing a keyboard accessible, unobtrusive JavaScript date-picker Update: they have added some feature requests
Max Kiesler – How to Make Your AJAX Applications Accessible – 40 Tutorials and Articles
Andy Budd interviewed by .Net Magazine about accessibility. Good read.
Some new research by Juicy Studio: Making Ajax Work with Screen Readers.
Jeremy Keith posts his presentation on: Hijax, which makes an accessible AJAX app a lot more attainable.
We’ve talked before about AJAX being inaccessible… “So what’s a well-intentioned web developer to do? Stop and think about the following before dropping that sudsy, lemon-scented bomb on unsuspecting users.”… It’s a step in the direction of making AJAX accessible.
I created this Web site from end-to-end. Graphic design, CSS/XHTML, content entry, WordPress integration. XHTML 1.0 Strict, built with Accessiblity and SEO in mind. Released for only 1 month it is already moving towards the top of the ranks for key search phrases for their business.