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Evaluating Websites for Accessibility with Firefox
From the intro to the article:
Patrick H. Lauke outlines how Mozilla Firefox can be used in conjunction with the Web Developer Toolbar to carry out a preliminary accessibility review
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Matt Baily’s Web Site Accessibility Blog
I have been wandering around online tonight trying to find I’ve missed in the last few months and came across the Web Site Accessibility Blog from Matt Bailey. Here are just a few examples of great posts from his blog: How To: Create Accessible PDF’s, IBM urges US senate for accessibility standards in information technology, [...]
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Accessible collaborative documents
Despite the pooh-poohing of the format, I am still backing the idea of a universal accessible web policy for developers. But lets take a step back and take care of the format issue first. I chose to publish this in a Word Doc, because everybody I know uses word to edit and write content (including [...]
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Lets create an open source web accessibility policy
Recently I’ve come accross a problem. Managers are often unable to convey what the accessibility requirments are for a product to their developers, outside of “it needs to be accessible.” I’ve been working on a document that serves as both our accessibility policy and as guidelines for us and the developers and contractors who work [...]
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Blind engineering student ‘reads’ color-scaled weather maps using Cornell software that converts color into sound
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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Accessible Online Slide Presentation Tool
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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Bowser toolbars redux
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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PDFs Redux
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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Accessible Writing Links
All the technology in the world won’t matter if your web content is hard to read. This can be a particular problem for anyone who uses “insider” talk, like research institutes, colleges, and nonprofits. This isn’t a complete list, but I recently found two sites that might help.
Crawford Killian’s “Writing for the Web” blog — [...]
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User-centric GUI Design Explained to All
Again with the slashdotting. But this is a continuation of a topic from last week, and here is some links to a few good articles. Enjoy, and I swear, no more slashdot links for at least a month.
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