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Aaron Cannon at NorthTemple shares an accessibility list he created in a post titled The Accessibility Checklist I Vowed I’d Never Write.
From Aaron:
When I wrote the below checklist, I attempted to answer the question, “What concise pieces of advice can I give to designers that will have the greatest impact on accessibility in the majority […]

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I just caught the last of Shawn Henry’s SXSW panel. Key takeway- there are white areas of things that are good to do for accessibility and black areas of things that are bad for accessibility- avoid worrying about the gray area in the middle. She mentioned the ability of web accessibility experts to endlessly debate […]

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I’m headed to Austin tomorrow, here is a list of some of the presentations specifically on accessibility:

Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics QuicklyShawn Henry.
Accessible Rich Media by Sharron Rush, Susan Gerhart, Becky Gibson and Lisa Pappas
Everything I Know About Accessibility I Learned From Star Wars by Derek Featherstone
Cooking up Accessible Video for the Web […]

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Via Accesssites.org, a summary of a 21 page report on the accessibility of social networks from AbilityNet. The report analyzes Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Yahoo and Bebo and reports that they all stink. Of those 5 sites, Yahoo was the only was to receive a two-star rating- that’s two starts out of five. The other four […]

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I first heard of Livescribe from an announcement of their upcoming ’smartpen’ and noted that a former professor, Andy Van Schaack, PhD was involved in the project. A few weeks ago, I was able to attend a presentation from Dr. Van Schaack and learned a little more about the project. I was especially interested in […]

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Hopefully, anyone subscribed to this blog also follows 456 Berea Street. If not, you missed a great post from Roger Johansson titled Overdoing Accessibility. Go read the article and then subscribe to his feed.
Mike Cherim tackled the same subject awhile back on Avoiding Extreme Accessibility.
Bim Egan ran a whole series of articles titled […]

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Day 13 of 24 Ways brings us CSS for Accessibility by Ann McMeekin. Ann discusses the proper use of line-height for users with dyslexia and how to use the :focus pseudo class to let keyboard users (even those using Internet Explorer) know when they are focused on a link.

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I recently presented on disability awareness in building accessible websites to a group of interaction designers. At the end, I was asked about examples of a specific person with a disabilities as well as design considerations for that person. This is what I found:
Personas of Persons with Disabilities and Recommended Design Considerations

Fluid, a user experience […]

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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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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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