By henny The Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has been hard at work over the last few months to review comments submitted in response to thier previous Last Call...
Read more about Call for Review: WCAG 2.0 Last Call Working Draft.
Tag: WCAG
Posted at: 12/12/2007 5:39 PM by Sarah Raisanen
By henny The Web Accessibility Initiative have just published a set of Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 presentation materials...
Read more about WCAG 2.0 Presentation Materials .
Tag: WCAG
Posted at: 1/11/2007 3:12 PM by Sarah Raisanen
By bim At Techshare 2007 I had the honour of being allowed to speak on one of my hot topics within the field of web accessibility...
Read more about Avoid the hidden barriers - presentation download.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 21/10/2007 5:58 PM by Verity Cork
By henny In June 5th of this year Shawn Henry from the World Wide Web (W3C) Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) presented on "What's new, WCAG 2.0, and current issues" hosted by RNIB in London...
Read more about "What's new, WCAG 2.0, and current issues" by Shawn Henry from W3C WAI.
Tag: WCAG
Posted at: 27/09/2007 7:10 AM by Sarah Raisanen
The first commandment of Web Accessibility is to "Provide a text equivalent for every non-text element"...
Read more about Alt Text.
Tag: Better connected, better results
Posted at: 14/09/2007 9:27 AM by Dave Wailing
By henny on 2007-08-23 12:15:17 We talk a lot about making PDF's accessible and how we should present them on the web but rarely do we touch on making PowerPoint accessible...
Read more about Reading and presenting with PowerPoint if you are a screen reader user.
Tag: Access technology
Posted at: 23/08/2007 12:17 PM by Verity Cork
By bim. Hiding text off the screen view using CSS is one of the ways that web authors can provide contextual information for screen reader users. This is just to make the information that is visually obvious, potentially audible...
Read more about Out of sight.
Tag: Hidden barriers
Posted at: 13/08/2007 9:11 AM by Verity Cork
By bim. Do be careful to define a base (natural) language on all web pages. Otherwise, defining other languages can result in the entire page being read by a screen reader trying to use the pronunciation rules for the wrong language...
Read more about Bad language.
Tag: Hidden barriers
Posted at: 1/08/2007 12:53 PM by Verity Cork
By henny Podcasts are getting ever more popular on the web and for good reason...
Read more about Overcoming the challenge of podcast transcription.
Tag: Articles
Posted at: 31/07/2007 4:46 PM by Verity Cork
By bim. In forms that have fairly long implicit labels, the BR element is the worst way to control where the text will wrap...
Read more about Broken labels.
Tag: Hidden barriers
Posted at: 30/07/2007 9:05 PM by Verity Cork