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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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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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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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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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I don’t know why you are reading this blog, but I there are a number of reasons that people become interested in accessibility issues. Do any of the below categories sound familiar to you or maybe someone you have worked with? Presented with no authority and in no particular order:
Why do you care about accessibility?

Following […]

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The Web Accessibility Initiative has released their new website for public consumption. It’s a cleaner, more professional look that facilitates easier location of the helpful resources available there such as an Introducation to Accessibility, Curriculum on Web Content Accessibility Guidelines and a handy template for Accessibility Evaluation Reports. If you haven’t before, take some time […]

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This is exciting news from the Web Standards Project- a grassroots task force from a well established organization promoting web accessibility and it looks like they have a crack team of experts assembled to tackle the job. It will be interesting to see what comes out of this effort, it should do a lot to […]

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I’ve used Firefox as my primary browser for development for the past year and it has performed great. I highly recommend it for you and your organization. From mozilla.org:
The wait is over. Firefox 1.0 empowers you to browse faster, more safely and more efficiently than with any other browser. Join more than 8 million others […]

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The general awareness of online accessibility issues has come along way in the past decade- from the isolated protests of a small group of zealots to an almost essential aspect of good web design. Why the change? It wasn’t the legal requirements of ADA or Section 508, nor the wealth of resources on the topic […]

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This set of guidelines is a collaboration between the IMS Global Learning Consortium and Project SALT at WGBH’s NCAM. The guidelines outline the responsibilities of everyone involved in the development and utilization of accessible online content, from creators of authoring environments to students.
The white paper presents guidelines for authoring (using XML, CSS and SVG), multimedia […]

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