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There is an interesting article from accross the pond about how to use browsers to develop and debug html structure, javascript, CSS etc. Read it and discuss below.

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Some guidelines for accessible hyperlinks that I emailed to someone awhile ago…

Most important, make sure the actual link is descriptive (not just the surrounding text). Users of screen readers can tab through links and the screen reader reads only the linked content. If the link reads “Click Here” or “Download Now.”
If a graphic is really [...]

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Not that Slashdot needs the traffic, but they are discussing something that might be of interest to this crowd. “Instinct tells us that computer security and computer usability are inversely proportional to each other…However, there have been plenty of cases where both computer security and computer usability went hand in hand with each other and [...]

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Having attended SXSW Interactive and the IDEAS conference this year, it was interesting to compare how the profit world and the non-profit/government world push design and usability forward. The profit world seems to be motivated by profit and market share, they government world by Section 508. Both have had their successes (wired.com, Library of [...]

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Ok, if we do this we have to be civilized about it. No politics, no pushing your guy, don�t even say who you are for. Now, I want people to do some usability testing on http://www.georgewbush.com and www.johnkerry.com, then come back here and post your thoughts and results. As the moderator, I�m reserving the right [...]

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Does anybody know anything about the accessibility of online survey products like Surveymonkey.com and Zoomerang.com? I’ve looked at a sample survey on Surveymonkey and could not even tell if it was a true HTML form, let alone if it was accessible. For giggles, I sent it to a visually impaired friend and asked her what [...]

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Without a doubt, my favorite online learning tool is Google where I can generally find answers to just about whatever real world problem I happen to be facing at any given time. I’m not sure how accessible Google and other major search engines are (or aren’t) but I just came across YouSearched which bills itself [...]

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A List Apart published an article a few days ago titled, What is Web Accessibility? by Trenton Moss. The article doesn’t attempt to explain any technical concept, but simply to help the reader understand the implications of different disabilities of web use. WebAIM does the same thing in their Introduction to Web Accessibility by Paul [...]

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I have recently been evaluating a couple of different pieces of online meeting/collaboration software. At this point we are looking at 2 different options- iVocalize because of its low cost and simple (accessible) interface and HorizonLive which has more features and is cross-platform. iVocalize is currently PC-only. There are other factors involved, but those seems [...]

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One of the more interesting occurrences at SxSW04 was the use of RendezVous enabled iChatting during panel discussions. For those of you poor souls on PCs, RendezVous iChat (~AIM) lets you open up your app and see all the other people on your network (wireless or otherwise) that are using RendezVous. So when I fired [...]

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