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2005 January

Seems like a really good idea. Makes me wonder if you could use a simular concept on size-scaled graphs and charts.

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Or perhaps better stated by the author of the tool, A Simple Standards-Based Semantic Slide Show System or S5. In Eric’s own words:
With one file, you can run a complete slide show and have a printer-friendly version as well. The markup used for the slides is very simple, highly semantic, and completely accessible… […]

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Curb Cut Learning would like to welcome the new Coordinator of Distance Education at the Institute for Community Inclusion, Alvaro Tobar. Alvaro comes to us from Boston University and has some great distance education experience.
Along with the redesign, I also changed how comments are accepted on the site. We have been using the excellent MT-Blacklist […]

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Web Developer Extension
Accessibility Extensions for Mozilla
Fangs: The Firefox Screen Reader Emulator Extension
Sharkware, JAWS Screen Reader Adaptation for Mozilla Firefox

All of these are for Firefox, of course. Go nuts with these and let us all know what works and what doesn’t.

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Many thanks to Christopher Phillips for giving Curb Cut a nice new look and feel. It looks great and I’ve never liked gill-sans more. Curb Cut’s new years resolution is to post even more than it did last year. It would also like to shed a few inches around the waist-line. Or maybe that is […]

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article from earlier this year on accessible pdf.

adobe just announced acrobat 7.0 with “advanced accessibility features”– see bottom of page 2 here. interesting stuff on canada’s accessibility requirements.

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