Archive for “November, 2007”

On this page the following entries were made in the “November, 2007” time-frame.


Icons, Symbols and Cognitive Disabilities

Posted November 29th, 2007 by Christopher Phillips

Guideline 1.3 Create content that can be presented in different ways (for example spoken aloud, simpler layout, etc.) without losing information or structure

Draft Guideline 1.3 of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.0 discusses the importance of making information available in a form that can be perceived by the user- either directly or through an […]

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Does your mail client support email standards?

Posted November 28th, 2007 by Christopher Phillips

Email Standards Project
The Email Standards Project works with email client developers and the design community to improve web standards support and accessibility in email.

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Online Video Captions

Posted November 15th, 2007 by Christopher Phillips

Google, Microsoft, Yahoo and AOL have announced their participation in the Internet Captioning Forum (ICF) established to promote the use of captioning for online video. They will be working with the National Center for Accessible Media (NCAM) at WGBH Boston. You can read quotes from Vint Cerf and other representatives from each of the big […]

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Alt Text, Less Can be More

Posted November 10th, 2007 by Christopher Phillips

Aaron Cannon at NorthTemple.com offers insight from the perspective of a blind user on the importance of alt text. First from Aaron, as quoted by Ted Boren:
For some reason, some folks get it into their heads that being blind is really terrible and the only way our lives can be whole is for us to […]

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Tactile Video Displays

Posted November 7th, 2007 by Christopher Phillips

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has licensed a technology for the commercialization of a tactile graphic display device. The device promises users who are blind the ability to feel images from any number of sources on a refreshable braille display. The technology has been in development for awhile, but commercialization is a significant […]

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