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Free Browsers for Visual Impairment

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:49:00 PST

I recently came across an article from disaboom called "Assistive Technology: Top 8 Free Browsers for Visual Impairment and More". The link was also popular on Twitter. But one problem, there are no links to the mentioned browser! So I went and found them:

WebbIE -accessible browser, RSS news reader and more.
EdWeb - talking web browser that can display web pages as text and symbols.
Fire Vox - Talking Browser Extension for Firefox (add-on page).
CliCk, Speak - less advanced version of Fire Vox.
Orca - speedy and powerful Gecko-based browser.
Simply Web 2000 - outdated; optimized for Internet Explorer 5.
SpeakOn -PC-based media suite program (four apps).
Thunder - package contains the WebbIE Text browser and more.

I'd like to add that Disaboom is a pretty nice site. In their words:

Disaboom is the leading resource for disability information and real-life articles about people with disabilities. Our broad range of topics, including health conditions, lifestyle, and helpful resources, help you create the life you want.

Colorblind, Law, and Lightboxes

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 03:26:00 PDT

Color Sensitive

I usually shy away from About.com, but I recently came across a piece worth mentioning. In the article Are Your Web Pages Color Sensitive? from the HTML/Web Design section, Jennifer Kyrnin provides some good information and techniques for web development with color blindness in mind. Here are some good tips from Jennifer:

Don't use only color to indicate something specific on your page.
Desaturate your images to see if they still have impact.
Avoid placing red and green together.
If you can, find a color blind friend or relative to look at your site.

Did you know that color blindness is an issue with 8 to 12% of males of European origin?

Law Needed

In his blog Yes, we need accessibility laws, Eric Eggert gives an argument for why we need better laws for web accessibility. He states that a good accessibility law should do:

Create awareness.
Do not create a climate of fear.
Create mediations.
Reference international standard.
Be inclusive.

Lightboxes

In the article Lightboxes and keyboard accessibility from 456 Berea Street, Roger Johansson describes how a lightbox should function with a keyboard. He states:

Let me use the left and right arrow keys to step through images in a slideshow.
When I press Esc, close the lightbox.
Do one of the following:
- Either add focusable elements (links or buttons) for close/next/previous, put keyboard focus on the first focusable object in the lightbox, make sure I can’t tab to something behind the lightbox, and make it visually obvious which object has keyboard focus.
- or close the lightbox when I press Tab.
When the lightbox closes, return keyboard focus to where it was when I opened it.

In addition, Roger cites the following two articles:

Building a Better Lightbox by Josh Habdas.
The Trouble with Lightbox (and its Variants) by Jonathon Christopher.

Podcast #75: Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:02:19 PDT

Ross interviews web guru Jeremy Keith; Dennis and Ross discuss news, articles, and Google Wave.

Download Web Axe Episode 75 (Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave)

Chatter

15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter via Nancy White
Interviewing Martha Lane Fox about Digital Inclusion by Sandi Wassmer (@SandiWassmer)

News and Links

Obama administration unveils Recovery.gov makeover (We reviewed original Recovery.gov site in Podcast #69.)
New WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey
Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson
How Many People is Your Website Alienating? (Ross' article)

Accessibility Review of Google Wave

Google Wave Preview Accessibility Review by Jared Smith. Jared tactfully explains how web accessibility of Google Wave fails miserably. For example:

Alternative text is not provided for any images.
Background images are used to convey content.
Roles, states, and other accessibility properties are not defined.
There is no document or heading structure or semantics.
Form elements do not have labels or titles.
Keyboard focus indication is hidden, making keyboard navigation nearly impossible.
Keyboard focus is often trapped.
The application becomes unusable and unreadable when text size is increased only slightly.

Jeremy Keith Interview

Co-host Ross Johnson speaks with Jeremy Keith, Adactio.com, a web standards guru, author, and speaker. Here are some great Jeremy Keith links:

UPDATE

The podcast was originally cut off by a couple minutes at the end. It is now fixed. Full running time is about 1 hour and 12 minutes.

ATIA Chicago 2009

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 22:07:44 PDT

The Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) is presenting a new conference this late October: ATIA Chicago 2009 "Showcasing Excellence in Assistive Technology".

There are over 200 sessions planned. The list of exhibitors includes:

The conference will be held at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center, in Schaumburg (Chicago), Illinois, U.S.A.

Dates

October 28: Pre-Conference Seminars
October 29: Leadership Workshop
October 29-31: Main Conference

Accessibility Round-Up from Twitter

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 13:04:36 PDT

Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson.

In the United Kingdom, join the campaign for Offcom to increase audio description on TV from 10% to 20%.

Wanted: Flash and Dojo accessibility experts for contract work. Contact John Foliot at the email address: jfoliot AT stanford DOT edu.

Update on The Paciello Group's ARIA role support: how the Windows browsers stack up.

Rate Accessible Twitter on oneforty.com.

Interviews:

Podcast interview with Victor Tsaran of Yahoo! Victor is a Senior Accessibility Program Manager.
Interview article with IBM's Bill Curtis-Davidson, co-chair of Georgia Alliance for Accessible Technologies.

Event reminders:

Accessibility Camp in Washington D.C. on October 10.
Accessing Higher Ground 2009 near Denver, Colorado, November 10-14.

Podcast #74: Awards, Events & Back to Basics

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:17:28 PDT

A super special podcast:

First time face-to-face recording between Dennis and Ross.
In Santa Cruz, California.
4-Year Anniversary for Web Axe.

Download Web Axe Episode 74 (Awards, Events & Back to Basics)

Chatter

Articles

If a page is viewed through Google Chrome Frame in Internet Explorer no content is available to the user of assistive technology (AT). This can be illustrated using the Microsofts accexplorer tool.

Events/Conferences

Main Segment

WCAG 2: Remember P.O.U.R.: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust

Perceivable - Interface elements can not be invisible to users.
Operable - Users must be able to interact with the interface.
Understandable - Users must be able to understand with information and the interface (cognitive).
Robust - Must be usable by a wide range of user agents and assisstive technologies.

Use P.O.S.H.: Plain Ol' Semantic HTML

Use headings and properly.
P is for paragraph.
blockquotes for quotes (not indentation).
Use lists for lists, menus, etcetera.
Definition Lists.
Use strong and em tags versus b and i.

Accessible Twitter Wins Award, Slidedeck

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 00:03:51 PDT

Congratulations to Accessible Twitter which was honored with the ACCESS-IT@Web 2.0 2009 award! Here is the link to the acceptance presentation on SlideShare which was given by Meera Tank at the event in London:

Accessible Twitter presentation for ACCESS-IT@Web 2.0

A text version is provided on the page, but here's a better version in HTML.

Cool tidbit: The presentation made the Featured Presentations & Documents section of the SlideShare home page the day after it was posted, and it made it (briefly) to the Hot on Twitter section!

Addendum:

Read about the award on Dennis' personal blog.

Two Free Events in October

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 04:32:00 PDT

Here's the info on two free web accessibility events in Washington D.C. this October. Thanks to Jennison Asuncion.

Interagency Disability Educational Awareness Showcase (IDEAS) - IDEAS 2009
October 5-6 Marvin Center, George Washington University.
For anyone who wants to learn more about and network with folks who
need to meet Section 508 requirements.

Accessibility Camp D.C.
October 10 at the Martin Luther King Library.
Day-long barcamp for folks who work or have an interest in IT accessibility.

4-Year Anniversary

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 10:06:19 PDT

Web Axe has been blogging and podcasting for over four years now! Since September 2005, Dennis Lembree has been contributing to the web accessibility community with blogs and podcasts about techniques, news, and events around development of accessible web sites. Dennis started Web Axe as a member of the Detroit Podcasters Network. Co-host Ross Johnson of 3.7 Designs joined the following year. Dennis and Ross are also the co-founders of Refresh Detroit. The site continues to grow in popularity, and the number of RSS subscribers has doubled over the last year. Thank you readers and listeners!

PS:
Coming soon, a great interview podcast!

Web Accessibility Day

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:38:00 PDT

Web Accessibility Day is Tuesday, September 22 in Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A. It's a a one-day event teaching how to create web accessible content including PDFs and graphics, and how to use evaluation tools.

The keynote speaker is Shawn Lawton Henry, Outreach Coordinator for the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI). Exhibitors include: Oracle, Knowbility, Nuance Communications, and Browse Aloud.

Web Accessibility Day is presented by The National Federation of the Blind and the Maryland Technology Assistance Program. Support for the Web Accessibility Training Day is provided by the State of Maryland Deparment of Information Technology.

ACCESS-IT Workshops and Awards

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:37:20 PDT

ACCESS-IT 2009 is a two-day event on Accessibility and Assistive Technology to be held September 22 and 23 at Microsoft (UK), Victoria, London. The event includes two workshops and an awards ceremony. It is hosted by Microsoft and will be located at its Cardinal Place location in Central London. You may register for ACCESS-IT 2009 at any time.

The ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards program honors accessible technologies from a project, product or service in the following four categories: Home, Work, Living, Web 2.0. About 100 nominations have been submitted from 24 countries; there are 19 finalists and 44 have received a good practice label.

Accessible Twitter has been named a finalist! All finalists will be rewarded at the ACCESS-IT 2009 event ceremony September 23.

Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:42:06 PDT

In WebAIM's article Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility, the most varied and complex area of accessibility is addressed. Cognitive accessibility is more prevalent than all physical and sensory disabilities combined, but seems to be dealt with the least, probably because it's most difficult to pinpoint as well as to solve. Much needed general principles and specific guidelines (referred to as a checklist in article) are provided in the article.

Here are the principles listed for cognitive accessibility:

Simple
Consistent
Clear
Multi-modal
Error-tolerant
Attention-focusing
Improving web accessibility for this audience will improve access for everyone

The guidelines are categorized under:

Assistive Technology Compatibility
Consistency
Transformability
Multi-modality
Focus and Structure
Readability and Language
Orientation and Error Prevention/Recovery

Fall Web Accessibility Events

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 19:43:57 PDT

Here's a list of some conferences and events this fall relating to web accessibility. Please feel free to add more in the comments.

Techshare 2009

Workshops, presentations and exhibitions from organisations and leading figures representing the digital technology disability sector.
16-18 September 2009
ExCeL conference and exhibition centre
London, England

Standards.Next - Cognition and accessibility

Northampton Square
London, England EC1V 0HB
Saturday, September 19, 2009 (1-4 pm)

EdUI 2009 Conference

For web professionals in higher education.
September 21-22, 2009
Charlottesville, Virginia, U.S.A. (at the University of Virginia)

Accessibility 2.0

The UK’s only Web 2.0 accessibility conference.
22nd September 09
London, England
Hosted by AbilityNet

An Event Apart, Chicago

Two Days Of Design, Code, and Content
October 12–13, 2009
Sheraton Towers
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.

12th Annual Accessing Higher Ground

Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference
November 10- 14, 2009
Westminster, Colorado, U.S.A (near Denver)
Keynote Speaker: T.V. Raman, Research Scientist, Google, Inc.
Hosted by the University of Colorado at Boulder

NOTE

I just have to add, I'm pretty disappointed in some of the code on these sites, especially with the (lack of) alternative text, the most basic checkpoints for web accessibility. In the Accessibility 2.0 site, the logo is missing alternative text! And on the Ed UI site, the date and location in the header is also missing alternative text; there is repeated content (under Get Updates); and my pet peeve, redundant title attributes (in menu). Correct me if I'm wrong, but this is pretty careless and poor example.

Addendum 27 Aug

Closing the Gap

Changing lives with assistive technology
Minneapolis, MN
October 15-17, 2009
Preconference Workshops - October 13-14

Web 2.0 Expo New York

November 16-19, 2009 at Javits Center
New York, NY
Register by October 8 and Save $350

Web Axe Nominated in 2009 .net Awards

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 03:28:00 PDT

Web Axe is nominated for Podcast of the Year in The 2009 .net Awards by .Net Magazine (@netmag).

There are 17 categories, but you don't have to vote for all at one time. Categories include best web app, mobile site of the year, and standards champion.

Voting closes 12th October 2009. The judges will then decide the winner from the top 3 in each category. Winners will be announced December 8th.

The awards have an excellent group of judges including: Jeffrey Zeldman, Paul Boag, Andy Budd, Christian Heilmann, Jason Santa Maria, Jon Hicks, Ryan Carson and Jonathan Snook.

Web Axe was also nominated last year (2008). Boagworld won the award.

Affordable niche advertising!

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:35:55 PDT

Web Axe is now offering audio ad space in each podcast. Additionally, you get a link on the blog. Standard rate is $150 (U.S. Dollars) per podcast.

Anyone interested may contact me by:

Email to: web axe [at gmail] NOSPAM! dot com
Direct message on Twitter (@webaxe)
Leave a comment on this blog post.

More Details

Valuable, unique niche market. Target this highly specialized audience! (accessibility advocates, web coding gurus, etc.)
PayPal is preferred.
Rate may vary depending on length and placement.
$150 rate is for an audio ad under 20 seconds.

Podcast #73: Bandwidth & Download Time

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:50:48 PDT

Dennis and Ross provide nearly an hour of news, knowledge, and fun!

Download Web Axe Episode 73 (Bandwidth & Download Time)

Michigan and Web Dudes, Lab, and Accessible Twitter

Dennis' vacation including visit to Michigan

Met creators of BongoTones
Met creator of Twilk

Web Accessibility News

WebAIM - Colors and Links and WCAG 2.0
ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards

Nominations will be submitted online only.
Submission deadline of nominations: 25th August 2009.

CVS Accessible Web Site and Point of Sale (nice sub-heading).
Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip by Jeremy Keith @adactio.
Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA on Dev.Opera by Gez Lemon .
Don't Just Tick Boxes - Meeting the diverse needs of your site’s visitors is likely to mean a great deal more than ticking off individual accessibility checkpoints.
AccessibilityWatch.com - fairly new accessibility blog (more than web).

Main Segment

The Issue & Statistics

Web accessibility is about providing content for everyone; even if the user is unable to have access to a broadband internet connection.
Economic issue; many people simply can't afford broadband.
Mobile--light and fast web sites can be more easily viewed on you phone!
Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 (study from 2003-2008 data)
In the U.S. in March 2008, users connecting at 56Kbps or less now make up 11.18% of active Internet users.
CWA Communications reported that the "median real-time download speed in the U.S. is a mere 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). The best available estimates show average download speeds in Japan of 63 mbps, in South Korea of 49 mbps and in France of 17 mbps.

Chart shows that from January 1995 to January 2008, there was a tremendous growth of average page size and average number of objects. The average page file size went from 14.1k in 1995, to 93.7k in 2003, to over 312k in 2008. The average number of page objects went from 2.3k in 1995, to 25.7 in 2003, to nearly 50 in 2008.

Related WCAG Guidelines

WCAG 2.0 Principle 4: Robust

Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies.

WCAG 1.0 Intro states:

user may have a text-only screen, a small screen, or a slow Internet connection and users may have turned off support for images (e.g. due to a slow Internet connection)

Greatly outdated web portion of Section 508 doesn't mention internet connection speed.

What You Can Do

Use progressive enhancement.
Optimize images; use sprites.
Write clean code.
Use external CSS and JavaScript files. For CSS, use <link> not @import.
Combine multiple CSS files into one. Same for JavaScript.
Use media domains.
Minify CSS and JS files.
Setup your server to send pages and files compressed.

Cache dynamic data and Ajax when appropriate.

Speaking on "Twitter and Web Accessibility" at AHG

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 11:48:16 PDT

Web Axe host Dennis Lembree will be speaking on "Twitter and Web Accessibility" at the 12th Annual Accessing Higher Ground conference in Colorado this mid-November.

The conference is November 10 thru 14. The labs are scheduled for a Tuesday and Wednesday, then the main conference is Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. (One day longer than last year!) Dennis is scheduled to speak on Thursday at 9:15am.

The keynote speaker is T.V. Raman, Research Scientist, Google, Inc. Dolphin Computer Access, LTD will sponsor one of the conference computer labs. They will also present 2 hand-on sessions on alternate format conversion.

The location of the conference is the Westin Hotel in Westminster, which is about 30 miles from the Denver International Airport (DEN). The hotel, or resort I should say, looks very nice!

You may register here. The shortened URL is tinyurl.com/ahg2009. Hope to see you there!

Podcasts from Tweeps: Universal Design, SitePoint, Heretech

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 07:21:09 PDT

Some great recent podcasts from some great Tweeps (if you've been on Mars, that means users of Twitter).

Universal design and Web Accessibility For Everyone — Great interview with Wendy Chisholm. Co-author of Universal Design for Web Applications, speaker, tweep (@wendyabc).
SitePoint Podcast #20: YouTube Deep-sixes IE 6 — In addition to YouTube and IE6, topics include HTML5, web fonts, and the "DiggBar". Hosted by Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Brad Williams (@williamsba) and Kevin Yank (@sentience).
The Heretech, episode 15: Cindy Alvarez on market development — Cindy Alvarez (a wonderful former co-worker) is a guest on this product management interview podcast. Cindy (@cindyalvarez) and host Tom Grant (@TomGrantForr) provide insightful conversation on design and user experience.

Visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Testing Lab

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Sat, 25 Jul 2009 09:04:28 PDT

I was fortunate enough to get invited for a visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Testing Lab (in Sunnyvale, California). Victor Tsaran (@vick08) and Alan Brightman (@abrightman) were kind enough to spend about an hour and a half with me and several other computer professionals. Here are some notes from the meeting:

Learned a lot about Mac's accessibility features. You can find them under under System Preferences/System/Universal Settings. Apparently they've been present since 1985, but most people don't know they exist.
Apple computers come with a screen reader VoiceOver, which is now on the iPhone. On the Mac, it displays the text which it's speaking; a great for blind person to work with a deaf person.
The demo of alternative input devices and software (including switch devices, head tracking, and an alternative keyboard) really creates awareness of others' needs.
Saw a demo of a braille output device. It was noted that this type of device is best for the deaf-blind. They are very expensive, and more popular in Europe as there tends to be more subsidy.
Issues and features with mobile devices including screen magnifiers, speaking menus, camera-scanner-reader combo.
Some excellent links:

Origin Instruments - Assistive Technology Products
AssistiveWare - assistive technology software

Article Headings, Please!

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:39:05 PDT

This has become an issue for me of late, and it needs more attention. And that is lack of sub-headings in articles. Not just the page heading and/or article heading, but headings throughout an article to make it more accessible and usable. Especially so the longer an article is. (And of course, use proper markup! H1, H2, etc.)

Examples, Poor

Among many, I came across the following articles which could really use more headings. The articles are fairly long, and could no doubt be broken up into sections.

Why Headings?

Why are headings so important? First of all, it's part of accessibility guidelines such as WCAG 2.0; see section 2.4.6 Headings and Labels. The W3C points out that headings create meaning when read out of context. And they help people with limited short-term memory. In addition, headings provide:

Better navigation for screenreaders.
Default formatting when CSS is not available.
More semantic.
Scanning more usable and readable document.
SEO.

Examples, Good

Here are examples of articles with good use of headings:

New Accessibility Guidelines A "Welcomed Update"
Accessibility and Common Sense
Constructing a POUR Website
This web site (smiley)

Please use headings and sub-headings as it creates more web accessible and usable articles.

Accessible WordPress Themes?

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:31:25 PDT

I'm really on a quest to find some web accessible, standards-compliant WordPress theme. It's so disappointing that the platform is set up for web standards (and usability, accessibility) but nearly all custom themes break it. Ugh!

Last week, I did a search on Google, but wasn't happy with the results. Then on Twitter, I asked the question:

Can anyone recommend a few fully accessible, fully standards-complaint #WordPress themes (besides Sea Beast)

I received a few replies, but didn't get much further in my quest. Then I ran a few searches in the WordPress themes site, but didn't come up with much. This is what I've got so far:

Sea Beast by Mike Cherim: the first theme to come to mind. Solid, but outdated.
Puritan by Peter Krantz: didn't try it because it didn't install with the new version of WordPress, 2.8.
Hybrid: Already had it installed , but still needs styling since it's a framework. And it requires joining a "club".
Stardust: good, but still needs some tweaking.

Does anyone know of any other accessible WordPress themes available? Valid code and semantic markup sure wouldn't hurt either. Template options and widget-ready are good too! Not sure why this is so difficult. Guess I'll have to make time to build my own (hopefully late this summer!).

Web Accessibility News

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:14:22 PDT

Latest goings-on in the web accessibility community. Found all on a valuable resource, Twitter!

Accessibility and the Law: from Practical eCommerce (from @joedolson)
Drupal Developers: Build accessibility into themes (and in general) (from @pixeldiva)
Working in Web Accessibility: (from @jared_w_smith)
New accessibility features in Firefox 3.5 (from @MarcoZehe)
Internet access as a human right (from @crgonzalez)
The new Pogo Sketch - Persons with mobility impairments can now use the Pogo Sketch stylus with Blackberry Storm (from @berryaccess)

Usability (and Accessibility) Tweetup in Ann Arbor, July 18

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:30:22 PDT

Ross and I are organizing a Usability (and Accessibility) Tweetup in Ann Arbor on Saturday evening, July 18th. Hope you can join us!

What: “Usability Tweetup”
When: 7pm, Saturday, July 18, 2009
Where: Ann Arbor Brewing Company in downtown Ann Arbor [Google map]
Why: To discuss web usability, web accessibility, Twitter; socialize; drink beer

Podcast #72: Twitter Accessibility, Events, and News

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:50:10 PDT

Download Web Axe Episode 72 (Twitter Accessibility, Events, and News)

Chatter

Feedback for new Web Axe theme song?
Opera 10 beta
Where are the headings?
AudioBoo "A Eulogy For IE6" by Paul Boag.
Web Axe-Refresh Detroit Tweetup! Ann Arbor, Michigan, Saturday, July 18.

Events/Conferences

12th Annual Accessing Higher Ground
Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference
10-14 November 2009
Westin Hotel in Westminster, Colorado, U.S.A.
IEEE Accessing the Future conference
20-21 July 2009
Northeastern University
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
LinkedIn event page
Full Frontal JavaScript Conference
20 November 2009
One day; £100
Duke Of York's Picturehouse; Preston Circus; Brighton, BN1 4NA

Twitter and Web Accessibility

Accessible Twitter updates:

Ajax for deleting DM.
Popular Links page; added categories.
Add URL shortening to DM page.
Add (limited) functionality to update user profile.

Compiled List of links from #TwitterBook (look who's first!)

Other Accessible Twitter applications:

Try a mobile web app.

Tweete was created as an alternative to the mobile web and slandr mobile clients.
Twitstat Mobile
Slandr
Dabr

TwInbox - plug-in for Microsoft Outlook
Tweet s60: totally accessible Twitter mobile app for Nokia Series 60 devices (via @AbilityNet @BlindTwit)

Other issues:

More News

Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust

dennislembree@yahoo.com (Dennis E. Lembree) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:12:48 PDT

Joe Dolson recently completed an excellent four part series published on the Practical eCommerce web site. Another great read from Joe,highly recommended. The articles cover the following four fundamental principles of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 (WCAG 2):

Is it perceivable?
Is it operable?
Is it understandable?
Is it robust?

Here are the articles:

PS:
Joe was a guest back in 2007 in Podcast: #41: The Definition of Web Accessibility

Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog

Free Browsers for Visual Impairment

Colorblind, Law, and Lightboxes

Color Sensitive

Law Needed

Lightboxes

Podcast #75: Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave

Chatter

News and Links

Accessibility Review of Google Wave

Jeremy Keith Interview

Related Links

UPDATE

ATIA Chicago 2009

Dates

Accessibility Round-Up from Twitter

Podcast #74: Awards, Events & Back to Basics

Chatter

Articles

Events/Conferences

Main Segment

Accessible Twitter Wins Award, Slidedeck

Addendum:

Two Free Events in October

4-Year Anniversary

Web Accessibility Day

ACCESS-IT Workshops and Awards

Evaluating Cognitive Web Accessibility

Fall Web Accessibility Events

NOTE

Addendum 27 Aug

Web Axe Nominated in 2009 .net Awards

Affordable niche advertising!

Podcast #73: Bandwidth & Download Time

Michigan and Web Dudes, Lab, and Accessible Twitter

Web Accessibility News

Main Segment

The Issue & Statistics

Related WCAG Guidelines

What You Can Do

More from the Big Boys

Speaking on "Twitter and Web Accessibility" at AHG

Podcasts from Tweeps: Universal Design, SitePoint, Heretech

Visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Testing Lab

Article Headings, Please!

Examples, Poor

Why Headings?

Examples, Good

Accessible WordPress Themes?

Web Accessibility News

Usability (and Accessibility) Tweetup in Ann Arbor, July 18

Podcast #72: Twitter Accessibility, Events, and News

Chatter

Events/Conferences

Twitter and Web Accessibility

More News

Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust