Recent
Some Accessibility Posts.
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Accessibility for iOS apps
What developers (and designers) need to do to make iPhone and iPad apps accessible
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Canada's sites not accessible
Federal judge rules the government Web sites don't meet current accessibility standards and need to be improved
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Sliding captcha
Clever UI for filtering robots and a few more tweaks would even make it accessible
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Olympic accessible failure
Joe Clark reports Vancouver2010.com is almost completely inaccessible
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Accessible Web video
For a medium that was designed to share scientific papers, the Web does a good job at delivering video to mass audiences. For the past months, msnbc.com has been building an entirely new way to share that video to its audiences.
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Patterns for the colour blind
Colour patterns for infographics and other visualizations
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Citzen captioning
CaptionTube allows people to add and export subtitle information to YouTube videos
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Clark on Google's caption idea
Thirteen things to not do when developing online video captions
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WCAG 2.0 official
The contentious second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines is now a recommendation
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Get rid of text-resizing widgets
Accessibility expert Joe Clark explains why those tools (and, I'd add, others duplicating browser functions) are pointless.
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Don't click here
A blog for marketing uses sketchy data and test to justify the worth of "click here".
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...Joe Clark retires
The Web accessibility expert is done being an expert. We all owe Joe more than we will ever acknowledge.
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WCAG Samurai Errata published...
The proposal is to be finalized in the coming weeks and uses WCAG 1.0 as a foundation.
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Browsers and accessibility guidelines
Patrick H. Lauke offers some thoughts on how the Web browsers themselves handle accessibility.
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Cancel WCAG 2.0
Joe Clark's open letter to the W3C asking it to cancel WCAG 2 (he announced it at Web Directions North)
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Joe Clark micropatronage
The highly-esteemed Joe Clark (arguably, one of Canada’s most passionate online personalities) is initiating a new research project around a topic he’s been passionate about for decades: accessibility. The Open & Closed Project’s aim is to create standards for captioning, audio description, subtitling, and dubbing. Not surprisingly, the project requires full-time focus and that’s where we come in.
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IE7 and accessibility
IEBlog explains how the new browser and the popular screen readers behave together.
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Accessible maps
A nice demonstration on how a accessible, and standards-based map can be built.
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Getting abbreviations right
Years ago I dipped my toes in these waters. Colin Lieberman goes deep.
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Accessible Web design tips
very week, a new tip to make one’s site accessible is posted on this consultancy site.
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Check your contrast
A slick little tool for check the accessibility of a colour contrast scheme.
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