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Attention, FEMA. You are in violation of Federal Law. This violation has the potential of hindering many people from being able to recover from the ill effects of hurricane Katrina. Your Web site fails to comply with Section 508. This non-compliance prevents those with certain disabilities from accessing the information on your Web site. Section […]
Usability.com.au has a very good guide to making tables accessible and usable in a variety of scenarios, posted here for your (my) resource and viewing pleasure Accessible tables: the definitive guide
This is a helpful starting point for developing for Web accessibility. Accessibility from the Ground Up. Yes, Web accessibility is growing up. Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 was released over five years ago, in May 1999. This year, the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative will release Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0. WCAG is the international standard […]
The U.S. National Cancer Institute recently did a user study of screen reader users. The Communication Technologies Branch of the United States National Cancer Institute (part of National Institutes of Health and Department of Health and Human Services) has been conducting usability testing with people with disabilities, specifically blind and lowvision users, to * understand […]
Well, here we have it the first (of many, I’m sure) lawsuits against inaccessible Web sites (in America anyway; there have been lawsuits in other countries before). Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced settlements with two major organizations that will make the web sites far more accessible to blind and visually impaired users. In addition […]
All Web designers like image-based rollover navigation right? (I don’t anymore, the java-not-script/tag-soup combinations of code usually make it completely inaccessible) Well, then along came Pixy’s fast CSS rollovers to save the day. Here is a great improvement on that concept: Pixy Rollovers with the ability to use transparent PNG’s Beautiful.
There was an interesting article in Wired News yesterday: Changing the Face of Web Surfing. Though I like the title “renegade redesign” better. Nutshell: Web designers (like me) who care about the fact that everyone should be able to see a Web site, are creating accessible versions of web sites they use that aren’t currently […]
Several ways to make clean looking, accessible, semantically meaningful forms.
*update* Apprently they have redesigned this site for whatever reason. Which is really good, because their old site was simply a ripoff of (tribute to?) WSU. It’s hard to be creative when someone tells you to rip a site’s design off. I have been working on this project since last fall through ISU Extension IT. […]
Use them properly. Isolani does a great job with a succinct, easy to understand Guide to creating accessible, structured tables for your tabular data (the only thing for which you should be using tables).
Forms are usually pretty messy to deal with in a pure CSS layout. They look very nice in tables, but are rather hard and hackey to deal with without tables. The Man In Blue , along with Eric Meyer came up with some very pretty ways of dealing with Accessible, Semantic, Table-less form layouts
Check the ADA accessibility of your Web site. Cynthia Says