http://odeo.com/channels/32531-Web-Axe-Practical-Web-Design-Accessibility-Tips-Podcast-and-Blog DenAtWebAxe no Practical web design accessibility tips. Podcast and blog with tips and techniques for creating accessible web sites. Practical web design accessibility tips. Podcast and blog with tips and techniques for creating accessible web sites. Practical web accessibility tips. Blog and podcast for programmers, coders, or anyone else interested in techniques for web accessibility (see WAI, Section 508, WebAIM). en 40 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:02:19 -0700 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:02:19 -0700 Technology http://odeo.com/episodes/25321563-Podcast-75-Jeremy-Keith-Interview-Google-Wave Ross interviews web guru Jeremy Keith; Dennis and Ross discuss news, articles, and Google Wave. Download Web Axe Episode 75 (Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave) Chatter 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter via Nancy White Interviewing Martha Lane Fox about Digital Inclusion by Sandi Wassmer (@SandiWassmer) News and Links Obama administration unveils Recovery.gov makeover (We reviewed original Recovery.gov site in Podcast #69.) New WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson How Many People is Your Website Alienating? (Ross' article) Accessibility Review of Google Wave Google Wave Preview Accessibility Review by Jared Smith. Jared tactfully explains how web accessibility of Google Wave fails miserably. For example: Alternative text is not provided for any images. Background images are used to convey content. Roles, states, and other accessibility properties are not defined. There is no document or heading structure or semantics. Form elem... Ross interviews web guru Jeremy Keith; Dennis and Ross discuss news, articles, and Google Wave. Download Web Axe Episode 75 (Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave) Chatter 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter via Nancy White Interviewing Martha Lane Fox about Digital Inclusion by Sandi Wassmer (@SandiWassmer) News and Links Obama administration unveils Recovery.gov makeover (We reviewed original Recovery.gov site in Podcast #69.) New WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson How Many People is Your Website Alienating? (Ross' article) Accessibility Review of Google Wave Google Wave Preview Accessibility Review by Jared Smith. Jared tactfully explains how web accessibility of Google Wave fails miserably. For example: Alternative text is not provided for any images. Background images are used to convey content. Roles, states, and other accessibility properties are not defined. There is no document or heading structure or semantics. Form elements do not have labels or titles. Keyboard focus indication is hidden, making keyboard navigation nearly impossible. Keyboard focus is often trapped. The application becomes unusable and unreadable when text size is increased only slightly. Jeremy Keith Interview Co-host Ross Johnson speaks with Jeremy Keith, Adactio.com, a web standards guru, author, and speaker. Here are some great Jeremy Keith links: Jeremy's articles Bulletproof Ajax book DOMscripting book Jeremy on Twitter: @adactio Clearleft - Web Design Agency Silverback - Usability Testing Software Related Links This Week in HTML5 – Episode 36 #Accessibility Building Accessible Flex and Adobe AIR Applications | MAX 2009 Develop | Adobe TV Create a CSS3 Button That Degrades Nicely (Ross' article) UPDATE The podcast was originally cut off by a couple minutes at the end. It is now fixed. Full running time is about 1 hour and 12 minutes. Ross interviews web guru Jeremy Keith; Dennis and Ross discuss news, articles, and Google Wave. Download Web Axe Episode 75 (Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave) Chatter 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter via Nancy White Interviewing Martha Lane Fox about Digital Inclusion by Sandi Wassmer (@SandiWassmer) News and Links Obama administration unveils Recovery.gov makeover (We reviewed original Recovery.gov site in Podcast #69.) New WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson How Many People is Your Website Alienating? (Ross' article) Accessibility Review of Google Wave Google Wave Preview Accessibility Review by Jared Smith. Jared tactfully explains how web accessibility of Google Wave fails miserably. For example: Alternative text is not provided for any images. Background images are used to convey content. Roles, states, and other accessibility properties are not defined. There is no document or heading structure or semantics. Form elements do not have labels or titles. Keyboard focus indication is hidden, making keyboard navigation nearly impossible. Keyboard focus is often trapped. The application becomes unusable and unreadable when text size is increased only slightly. Jeremy Keith Interview Co-host Ross Johnson speaks with Jeremy Keith, Adactio.com, a web standards guru, author, and speaker. Here are some great Jeremy Keith links: Jeremy's articles Bulletproof Ajax book DOMscripting book Jeremy on Twitter: @adactio Clearleft - Web Design Agency Silverback - Usability Testing Software Related Links This Week in HTML5 – Episode 36 #Accessibility Building Accessible Flex and Adobe AIR Applications | MAX 2009 Develop | Adobe TV Create a CSS3 Button That Degrades Nicely (Ross' article) UPDATE The podcast was originally cut off by a couple minutes at the end. It is now fixed. Full running time is about 1 hour and 12 minutes. tag:odeo.com,2009-10-20,25321563 Tue, 20 Oct 2009 21:02:19 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, Interview, Adobe, webaim, expert http://odeo.com/episodes/25308870-Podcast-75-Jeremy-Keith-Interview-Google-Wave Ross interviews web guru Jeremy Keith; Dennis and Ross discuss news, articles, and Google Wave. Download Web Axe Episode 75 (Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave) Chatter 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter via Nancy White Interviewing Martha Lane Fox about Digital Inclusion by Sandi Wassmer (@SandiWassmer) News and Links Obama administration unveils Recovery.gov makeover (We reviewed original Recovery.gov site in Podcast #69.) New WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson How Many People is Your Website Alienating? (Ross' article) Accessibility Review of Google Wave Google Wave Preview Accessibility Review by Jared Smith. Jared tactfully explains how web accessibility of Google Wave fails miserably. For example: Alternative text is not provided for any images. Background images are used to convey content. Roles, states, and other accessibility properties are not defined. There is no document or heading structure or semantics. Form elem... Ross interviews web guru Jeremy Keith; Dennis and Ross discuss news, articles, and Google Wave. Download Web Axe Episode 75 (Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave) Chatter 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter via Nancy White Interviewing Martha Lane Fox about Digital Inclusion by Sandi Wassmer (@SandiWassmer) News and Links Obama administration unveils Recovery.gov makeover (We reviewed original Recovery.gov site in Podcast #69.) New WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson How Many People is Your Website Alienating? (Ross' article) Accessibility Review of Google Wave Google Wave Preview Accessibility Review by Jared Smith. Jared tactfully explains how web accessibility of Google Wave fails miserably. For example: Alternative text is not provided for any images. Background images are used to convey content. Roles, states, and other accessibility properties are not defined. There is no document or heading structure or semantics. Form elements do not have labels or titles. Keyboard focus indication is hidden, making keyboard navigation nearly impossible. Keyboard focus is often trapped. The application becomes unusable and unreadable when text size is increased only slightly. Jeremy Keith Interview Co-host Ross Johnson speaks with Jeremy Keith, Adactio.com, a web standards guru, author, and speaker. Here are some great Jeremy Keith links: Jeremy's articles Bulletproof Ajax book DOMscripting book Jeremy on Twitter: @adactio Clearleft - Web Design Agency Silverback - Usability Testing Software Related Links This Week in HTML5 – Episode 36 #Accessibility Building Accessible Flex and Adobe AIR Applications | MAX 2009 Develop | Adobe TV Create a CSS3 Button That Degrades Nicely (Ross' article) Ross interviews web guru Jeremy Keith; Dennis and Ross discuss news, articles, and Google Wave. Download Web Axe Episode 75 (Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave) Chatter 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter via Nancy White Interviewing Martha Lane Fox about Digital Inclusion by Sandi Wassmer (@SandiWassmer) News and Links Obama administration unveils Recovery.gov makeover (We reviewed original Recovery.gov site in Podcast #69.) New WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson How Many People is Your Website Alienating? (Ross' article) Accessibility Review of Google Wave Google Wave Preview Accessibility Review by Jared Smith. Jared tactfully explains how web accessibility of Google Wave fails miserably. For example: Alternative text is not provided for any images. Background images are used to convey content. Roles, states, and other accessibility properties are not defined. There is no document or heading structure or semantics. Form elements do not have labels or titles. Keyboard focus indication is hidden, making keyboard navigation nearly impossible. Keyboard focus is often trapped. The application becomes unusable and unreadable when text size is increased only slightly. Jeremy Keith Interview Co-host Ross Johnson speaks with Jeremy Keith, Adactio.com, a web standards guru, author, and speaker. Here are some great Jeremy Keith links: Jeremy's articles Bulletproof Ajax book DOMscripting book Jeremy on Twitter: @adactio Clearleft - Web Design Agency Silverback - Usability Testing Software Related Links This Week in HTML5 – Episode 36 #Accessibility Building Accessible Flex and Adobe AIR Applications | MAX 2009 Develop | Adobe TV Create a CSS3 Button That Degrades Nicely (Ross' article) tag:odeo.com,2009-10-18,25308870 Sun, 18 Oct 2009 15:52:41 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, Interview, Adobe, webaim, expert http://odeo.com/episodes/25202201-Podcast-74-Awards-Events-Back-to-Basics A super special podcast: First time face-to-face recording between Dennis and Ross. In Santa Cruz, California. 4-Year Anniversary for Web Axe. Download Web Axe Episode 74 (Awards, Events & Back to Basics) Chatter Affordable niche advertising! Web Axe Nominated in 2009 .net Awards (twice!) Accessible Twitter winner of the the ACCESS-IT 2009 awards. Articles Are PDFs More Important Than Web Accessibility? Interview with Jamie Knight: autism and accessible web design HTML5 Canvas element and Accessibility Google Chrome Frame - accessibility black hole If a page is viewed through Google Chrome Frame in Internet Explorer no content is available to the user of assistive technology (AT). This can be illustrated using the Microsofts accexplorer tool. Events/Conferences Attended OpenWebCamp at Stanford Fall Web Accessibility Events Two Free Events in October An Event Apart, San Francisco 2009 Future of Web Design 2009 NYC Main Segment WCAG 2: Remember P.O.U.R.: Perceivable, Operable, Und... A super special podcast: First time face-to-face recording between Dennis and Ross. In Santa Cruz, California. 4-Year Anniversary for Web Axe. Download Web Axe Episode 74 (Awards, Events & Back to Basics) Chatter Affordable niche advertising! Web Axe Nominated in 2009 .net Awards (twice!) Accessible Twitter winner of the the ACCESS-IT 2009 awards. Articles Are PDFs More Important Than Web Accessibility? Interview with Jamie Knight: autism and accessible web design HTML5 Canvas element and Accessibility Google Chrome Frame - accessibility black hole If a page is viewed through Google Chrome Frame in Internet Explorer no content is available to the user of assistive technology (AT). This can be illustrated using the Microsofts accexplorer tool. Events/Conferences Attended OpenWebCamp at Stanford Fall Web Accessibility Events Two Free Events in October An Event Apart, San Francisco 2009 Future of Web Design 2009 NYC Main Segment WCAG 2: Remember P.O.U.R.: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust Perceivable - Interface elements can not be invisible to users. Operable - Users must be able to interact with the interface. Understandable - Users must be able to understand with information and the interface (cognitive). Robust - Must be usable by a wide range of user agents and assisstive technologies. Use P.O.S.H.: Plain Ol' Semantic HTML Use headings and properly. P is for paragraph. blockquotes for quotes (not indentation). Use lists for lists, menus, etcetera. Definition Lists. Use strong and em tags versus b and i. Other topics: Alt text for non-textual elements. Tables Forms JavaScript Device-Independence Visual impairments Audio A super special podcast: First time face-to-face recording between Dennis and Ross. In Santa Cruz, California. 4-Year Anniversary for Web Axe. Download Web Axe Episode 74 (Awards, Events & Back to Basics) Chatter Affordable niche advertising! Web Axe Nominated in 2009 .net Awards (twice!) Accessible Twitter winner of the the ACCESS-IT 2009 awards. Articles Are PDFs More Important Than Web Accessibility? Interview with Jamie Knight: autism and accessible web design HTML5 Canvas element and Accessibility Google Chrome Frame - accessibility black hole If a page is viewed through Google Chrome Frame in Internet Explorer no content is available to the user of assistive technology (AT). This can be illustrated using the Microsofts accexplorer tool. Events/Conferences Attended OpenWebCamp at Stanford Fall Web Accessibility Events Two Free Events in October An Event Apart, San Francisco 2009 Future of Web Design 2009 NYC Main Segment WCAG 2: Remember P.O.U.R.: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust Perceivable - Interface elements can not be invisible to users. Operable - Users must be able to interact with the interface. Understandable - Users must be able to understand with information and the interface (cognitive). Robust - Must be usable by a wide range of user agents and assisstive technologies. Use P.O.S.H.: Plain Ol' Semantic HTML Use headings and properly. P is for paragraph. blockquotes for quotes (not indentation). Use lists for lists, menus, etcetera. Definition Lists. Use strong and em tags versus b and i. Other topics: Alt text for non-textual elements. Tables Forms JavaScript Device-Independence Visual impairments Audio tag:odeo.com,2009-09-28,25202201 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 22:17:28 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog conference, podcast, awards, twitter, event, PDF, standards, html5, wcag2 http://odeo.com/episodes/24936720-Podcast-73-Bandwidth-Download-Time Dennis and Ross provide nearly an hour of news, knowledge, and fun! Download Web Axe Episode 73 (Bandwidth & Download Time) Michigan and Web Dudes, Lab, and Accessible Twitter Dennis' vacation including visit to Michigan Met creators of BongoTones Met creator of Twilk Visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Lab Accessible Twitter updates. Future of Skype Web Accessibility News WebAIM - Colors and Links and WCAG 2.0 ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards Nominations will be submitted online only. Submission deadline of nominations: 25th August 2009. CVS Accessible Web Site and Point of Sale (nice sub-heading). Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip by Jeremy Keith @adactio. Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA on Dev.Opera by Gez Lemon . Don't Just Tick Boxes - Meeting the diverse needs of your site’s visitors is likely to mean a great deal more than ticking off individual accessibility checkpoints. AccessibilityWatch.com - fairly new accessibility blog (more than web). Main Segment The Iss... Dennis and Ross provide nearly an hour of news, knowledge, and fun! Download Web Axe Episode 73 (Bandwidth & Download Time) Michigan and Web Dudes, Lab, and Accessible Twitter Dennis' vacation including visit to Michigan Met creators of BongoTones Met creator of Twilk Visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Lab Accessible Twitter updates. Future of Skype Web Accessibility News WebAIM - Colors and Links and WCAG 2.0 ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards Nominations will be submitted online only. Submission deadline of nominations: 25th August 2009. CVS Accessible Web Site and Point of Sale (nice sub-heading). Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip by Jeremy Keith @adactio. Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA on Dev.Opera by Gez Lemon . Don't Just Tick Boxes - Meeting the diverse needs of your site’s visitors is likely to mean a great deal more than ticking off individual accessibility checkpoints. AccessibilityWatch.com - fairly new accessibility blog (more than web). Main Segment The Issue & Statistics Web accessibility is about providing content for everyone; even if the user is unable to have access to a broadband internet connection. Economic issue; many people simply can't afford broadband. Mobile--light and fast web sites can be more easily viewed on you phone! Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 (study from 2003-2008 data) In the U.S. in March 2008, users connecting at 56Kbps or less now make up 11.18% of active Internet users. CWA Communications reported that the "median real-time download speed in the U.S. is a mere 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). The best available estimates show average download speeds in Japan of 63 mbps, in South Korea of 49 mbps and in France of 17 mbps. Chart shows that from January 1995 to January 2008, there was a tremendous growth of average page size and average number of objects. The average page file size went from 14.1k in 1995, to 93.7k in 2003, to over 312k in 2008. The average number of page objects went from 2.3k in 1995, to 25.7 in 2003, to nearly 50 in 2008. Related WCAG Guidelines WCAG 2.0 Principle 4: Robust Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies. WCAG 1.0 Intro states:user may have a text-only screen, a small screen, or a slow Internet connection and users may have turned off support for images (e.g. due to a slow Internet connection) Greatly outdated web portion of Section 508 doesn't mention internet connection speed. What You Can Do Use progressive enhancement. Optimize images; use sprites. Write clean code. Use external CSS and JavaScript files. For CSS, use <link> not @import. Combine multiple CSS files into one. Same for JavaScript. Use media domains. Minify CSS and JS files. Setup your server to send pages and files compressed. PHP Speedy (Apache/Gzip) How gzip compression works Cache dynamic data and Ajax when appropriate. More from the Big Boys More at Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from Yahoo! And now, Let's make the web faster from Google, with fun little videos. Dennis and Ross provide nearly an hour of news, knowledge, and fun! Download Web Axe Episode 73 (Bandwidth & Download Time) Michigan and Web Dudes, Lab, and Accessible Twitter Dennis' vacation including visit to Michigan Met creators of BongoTones Met creator of Twilk Visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Lab Accessible Twitter updates. Future of Skype Web Accessibility News WebAIM - Colors and Links and WCAG 2.0 ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards Nominations will be submitted online only. Submission deadline of nominations: 25th August 2009. CVS Accessible Web Site and Point of Sale (nice sub-heading). Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip by Jeremy Keith @adactio. Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA on Dev.Opera by Gez Lemon . Don't Just Tick Boxes - Meeting the diverse needs of your site’s visitors is likely to mean a great deal more than ticking off individual accessibility checkpoints. AccessibilityWatch.com - fairly new accessibility blog (more than web). Main Segment The Issue & Statistics Web accessibility is about providing content for everyone; even if the user is unable to have access to a broadband internet connection. Economic issue; many people simply can't afford broadband. Mobile--light and fast web sites can be more easily viewed on you phone! Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 (study from 2003-2008 data) In the U.S. in March 2008, users connecting at 56Kbps or less now make up 11.18% of active Internet users. CWA Communications reported that the "median real-time download speed in the U.S. is a mere 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). The best available estimates show average download speeds in Japan of 63 mbps, in South Korea of 49 mbps and in France of 17 mbps. Chart shows that from January 1995 to January 2008, there was a tremendous growth of average page size and average number of objects. The average page file size went from 14.1k in 1995, to 93.7k in 2003, to over 312k in 2008. The average number of page objects went from 2.3k in 1995, to 25.7 in 2003, to nearly 50 in 2008. Related WCAG Guidelines WCAG 2.0 Principle 4: Robust Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies. WCAG 1.0 Intro states:user may have a text-only screen, a small screen, or a slow Internet connection and users may have turned off support for images (e.g. due to a slow Internet connection) Greatly outdated web portion of Section 508 doesn't mention internet connection speed. What You Can Do Use progressive enhancement. Optimize images; use sprites. Write clean code. Use external CSS and JavaScript files. For CSS, use <link> not @import. Combine multiple CSS files into one. Same for JavaScript. Use media domains. Minify CSS and JS files. Setup your server to send pages and files compressed. PHP Speedy (Apache/Gzip) How gzip compression works Cache dynamic data and Ajax when appropriate. More from the Big Boys More at Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from Yahoo! And now, Let's make the web faster from Google, with fun little videos. tag:odeo.com,2009-08-10,24936720 Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:50:48 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, twitter, javascript, yahoo, css, color, wcag2 http://odeo.com/episodes/24933527-Podcast-73-Bandwidth-Download-Time Dennis and Ross provide nearly an hour of news, knowledge, and fun! Download Web Axe Episode 73 (Bandwidth & Download Time) Michigan and Web Dudes, Lab, and Accessible Twitter Dennis' vacation including visit to Michigan Met creators of BongoTones Met creator of Twilk Visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Lab Accessible Twitter updates. Future of Skype Web Accessibility News WebAIM - Colors and Links and WCAG 2.0 ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards Nominations will be submitted online only. Submission deadline of nominations: 25th August 2009. CVS Accessible Web Site and Point of Sale (nice sub-heading). Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip by Jeremy Keith @adactio. Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA on Dev.Opera by Gez Lemon . Don't Just Tick Boxes - Meeting the diverse needs of your site’s visitors is likely to mean a great deal more than ticking off individual accessibility checkpoints. AccessibilityWatch.com - fairly new accessibility blog (more than web). Main Segment The Iss... Dennis and Ross provide nearly an hour of news, knowledge, and fun! Download Web Axe Episode 73 (Bandwidth & Download Time) Michigan and Web Dudes, Lab, and Accessible Twitter Dennis' vacation including visit to Michigan Met creators of BongoTones Met creator of Twilk Visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Lab Accessible Twitter updates. Future of Skype Web Accessibility News WebAIM - Colors and Links and WCAG 2.0 ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards Nominations will be submitted online only. Submission deadline of nominations: 25th August 2009. CVS Accessible Web Site and Point of Sale (nice sub-heading). Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip by Jeremy Keith @adactio. Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA on Dev.Opera by Gez Lemon . Don't Just Tick Boxes - Meeting the diverse needs of your site’s visitors is likely to mean a great deal more than ticking off individual accessibility checkpoints. AccessibilityWatch.com - fairly new accessibility blog (more than web). Main Segment The Issue & Statistics Web accessibility is about providing content for everyone; even if the user is unable to have access to a broadband internet connection. Economic issue; many people simply can't afford broadband. Mobile--light and fast web sites can be more easily viewed on you phone! Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 (study from 2003-2008 data) In the U.S. in March 2008, users connecting at 56Kbps or less now make up 11.18% of active Internet users. CWA Communications reported that the "median real-time download speed in the U.S. is a mere 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). The best available estimates show average download speeds in Japan of 63 mbps, in South Korea of 49 mbps and in France of 17 mbps. Chart shows that from January 1995 to January 2008, there was a tremendous growth of average page size and average number of objects. The average page file size went from 14.1k in 1995, to 93.7k in 2003, to over 312k in 2008. The average number of page objects went from 2.3k in 1995, to 25.7 in 2003, to nearly 50 in 2008. Related WCAG Guidelines WCAG 2.0 Principle 4: Robust Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies. WCAG 1.0 Intro states:user may have a text-only screen, a small screen, or a slow Internet connection" and users "may have turned off support for images (e.g. due to a slow Internet connection)" Greatly outdated web portion of Section 508 doesn't mention internet connection speed. What You Can Do Use progressive enhancement. Optimize images; use sprites. Write clean code. Use external CSS and JavaScript files. For CSS, use <link> not @import. Combine multiple CSS files into one. Same for JavaScript. Use media domains. Minify CSS and JS files. Setup your server to send pages and files compressed. PHP Speedy (Apache/Gzip) How gzip compression works Cache dynamic data and Ajax when appropriate. More from the Big Boys More at Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from Yahoo! And now, Let's make the web faster from Google, with fun little videos. Dennis and Ross provide nearly an hour of news, knowledge, and fun! Download Web Axe Episode 73 (Bandwidth & Download Time) Michigan and Web Dudes, Lab, and Accessible Twitter Dennis' vacation including visit to Michigan Met creators of BongoTones Met creator of Twilk Visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Lab Accessible Twitter updates. Future of Skype Web Accessibility News WebAIM - Colors and Links and WCAG 2.0 ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards Nominations will be submitted online only. Submission deadline of nominations: 25th August 2009. CVS Accessible Web Site and Point of Sale (nice sub-heading). Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip by Jeremy Keith @adactio. Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA on Dev.Opera by Gez Lemon . Don't Just Tick Boxes - Meeting the diverse needs of your site’s visitors is likely to mean a great deal more than ticking off individual accessibility checkpoints. AccessibilityWatch.com - fairly new accessibility blog (more than web). Main Segment The Issue & Statistics Web accessibility is about providing content for everyone; even if the user is unable to have access to a broadband internet connection. Economic issue; many people simply can't afford broadband. Mobile--light and fast web sites can be more easily viewed on you phone! Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 (study from 2003-2008 data) In the U.S. in March 2008, users connecting at 56Kbps or less now make up 11.18% of active Internet users. CWA Communications reported that the "median real-time download speed in the U.S. is a mere 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). The best available estimates show average download speeds in Japan of 63 mbps, in South Korea of 49 mbps and in France of 17 mbps. Chart shows that from January 1995 to January 2008, there was a tremendous growth of average page size and average number of objects. The average page file size went from 14.1k in 1995, to 93.7k in 2003, to over 312k in 2008. The average number of page objects went from 2.3k in 1995, to 25.7 in 2003, to nearly 50 in 2008. Related WCAG Guidelines WCAG 2.0 Principle 4: Robust Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies. WCAG 1.0 Intro states:user may have a text-only screen, a small screen, or a slow Internet connection" and users "may have turned off support for images (e.g. due to a slow Internet connection)" Greatly outdated web portion of Section 508 doesn't mention internet connection speed. What You Can Do Use progressive enhancement. Optimize images; use sprites. Write clean code. Use external CSS and JavaScript files. For CSS, use <link> not @import. Combine multiple CSS files into one. Same for JavaScript. Use media domains. Minify CSS and JS files. Setup your server to send pages and files compressed. PHP Speedy (Apache/Gzip) How gzip compression works Cache dynamic data and Ajax when appropriate. More from the Big Boys More at Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from Yahoo! And now, Let's make the web faster from Google, with fun little videos. tag:odeo.com,2009-08-09,24933527 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:44:53 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, twitter, javascript, yahoo, css, color, wcag2 http://odeo.com/episodes/24932592-Podcast-73-Bandwidth-Download-Time Dennis and Ross provide nearly an hour of news, knowledge, and fun! Download Web Axe Episode 73 (Bandwidth & Download Time) Michigan and Web Dudes, Lab, and Accessible Twitter Dennis' vacation including visit to Michigan Met creators of BongoTones Met creator of Twilk Visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Lab Accessible Twitter updates. Future of Skype Web Accessibility News WebAIM - Colors and Links and WCAG 2.0 ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards Nominations will be submitted online only. Submission deadline of nominations: 25th August 2009. CVS Accessible Web Site and Point of Sale (nice sub-heading). Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip by Jeremy Keith @adactio. Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA on Dev.Opera by Gez Lemon . Don't Just Tick Boxes - Meeting the diverse needs of your site’s visitors is likely to mean a great deal more than ticking off individual accessibility checkpoints. AccessibilityWatch.com - fairly new accessibility blog (more than web). Main Segment The Iss... Dennis and Ross provide nearly an hour of news, knowledge, and fun! Download Web Axe Episode 73 (Bandwidth & Download Time) Michigan and Web Dudes, Lab, and Accessible Twitter Dennis' vacation including visit to Michigan Met creators of BongoTones Met creator of Twilk Visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Lab Accessible Twitter updates. Future of Skype Web Accessibility News WebAIM - Colors and Links and WCAG 2.0 ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards Nominations will be submitted online only. Submission deadline of nominations: 25th August 2009. CVS Accessible Web Site and Point of Sale (nice sub-heading). Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip by Jeremy Keith @adactio. Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA on Dev.Opera by Gez Lemon . Don't Just Tick Boxes - Meeting the diverse needs of your site’s visitors is likely to mean a great deal more than ticking off individual accessibility checkpoints. AccessibilityWatch.com - fairly new accessibility blog (more than web). Main Segment The Issue & Statistics Web accessibility is about providing content for everyone; even if the user is unable to have access to a broadband internet connection. Economic issue; many people simply can't afford broadband. Mobile--light and fast web sites can be more easily viewed on you phone! Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 (study from 2003-2008 data) In the U.S. in March 2008, users connecting at 56Kbps or less now make up 11.18% of active Internet users. CWA Communications reported that the "median real-time download speed in the U.S. is a mere 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). The best available estimates show average download speeds in Japan of 63 mbps, in South Korea of 49 mbps and in France of 17 mbps. Chart shows that from January 1995 to January 2008, there was a tremendous growth of average page size and average number of objects. The average page file size went from 14.1k in 1995, to 93.7k in 2003, to over 312k in 2008. The average number of page objects went from 2.3k in 1995, to 25.7 in 2003, to nearly 50 in 2008. Related WCAG Guidelines WCAG 2.0 Principle 4: Robust Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies. WCAG 1.0 Intro states: user may have a text-only screen, a small screen, or a slow Internet connection" and users "may have turned off support for images (e.g. due to a slow Internet connection)" Greatly outdated web portion of Section 508 doesn't mention internet connection speed. What You Can Do Use progressive enhancement. Optimize images; use sprites. Write clean code. Use external CSS and JavaScript files. For CSS, use &.t;link> not @import. Combine multiple CSS files into one. Same for JavaScript. Use media domains. Minify CSS and JS files. Setup your server to send pages and files compressed. PHP Speedy (Apache/Gzip) How gzip compression works Cache dynamic data and Ajax when appropriate. More from the Big Boys More at Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from Yahoo! And now, Let's make the web faster from Google, with fun little videos. Dennis and Ross provide nearly an hour of news, knowledge, and fun! Download Web Axe Episode 73 (Bandwidth & Download Time) Michigan and Web Dudes, Lab, and Accessible Twitter Dennis' vacation including visit to Michigan Met creators of BongoTones Met creator of Twilk Visit to Yahoo! Accessibility Lab Accessible Twitter updates. Future of Skype Web Accessibility News WebAIM - Colors and Links and WCAG 2.0 ACCESS-IT 2009 Awards Nominations will be submitted online only. Submission deadline of nominations: 25th August 2009. CVS Accessible Web Site and Point of Sale (nice sub-heading). Misunderstanding Markup: XHTML 2/HTML 5 Comic Strip by Jeremy Keith @adactio. Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA on Dev.Opera by Gez Lemon . Don't Just Tick Boxes - Meeting the diverse needs of your site’s visitors is likely to mean a great deal more than ticking off individual accessibility checkpoints. AccessibilityWatch.com - fairly new accessibility blog (more than web). Main Segment The Issue & Statistics Web accessibility is about providing content for everyone; even if the user is unable to have access to a broadband internet connection. Economic issue; many people simply can't afford broadband. Mobile--light and fast web sites can be more easily viewed on you phone! Average Web Page Size Triples Since 2003 (study from 2003-2008 data) In the U.S. in March 2008, users connecting at 56Kbps or less now make up 11.18% of active Internet users. CWA Communications reported that the "median real-time download speed in the U.S. is a mere 2.3 megabits per second (mbps). The best available estimates show average download speeds in Japan of 63 mbps, in South Korea of 49 mbps and in France of 17 mbps. Chart shows that from January 1995 to January 2008, there was a tremendous growth of average page size and average number of objects. The average page file size went from 14.1k in 1995, to 93.7k in 2003, to over 312k in 2008. The average number of page objects went from 2.3k in 1995, to 25.7 in 2003, to nearly 50 in 2008. Related WCAG Guidelines WCAG 2.0 Principle 4: Robust Content must be robust enough that it can be interpreted reliably by a wide variety of user agents, including assistive technologies. WCAG 1.0 Intro states: user may have a text-only screen, a small screen, or a slow Internet connection" and users "may have turned off support for images (e.g. due to a slow Internet connection)" Greatly outdated web portion of Section 508 doesn't mention internet connection speed. What You Can Do Use progressive enhancement. Optimize images; use sprites. Write clean code. Use external CSS and JavaScript files. For CSS, use &.t;link> not @import. Combine multiple CSS files into one. Same for JavaScript. Use media domains. Minify CSS and JS files. Setup your server to send pages and files compressed. PHP Speedy (Apache/Gzip) How gzip compression works Cache dynamic data and Ajax when appropriate. More from the Big Boys More at Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from Yahoo! And now, Let's make the web faster from Google, with fun little videos. tag:odeo.com,2009-08-09,24932592 Sun, 09 Aug 2009 07:51:00 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, twitter, javascript, yahoo, css, color, wcag2 http://odeo.com/episodes/24758007-Podcast-72-Twitter-Accessibility-Events-and-News Download Web Axe Episode 72 (Twitter Accessibility, Events, and News) Chatter Feedback for new Web Axe theme song? Opera 10 beta Where are the headings? AudioBoo "A Eulogy For IE6" by Paul Boag. Web Axe-Refresh Detroit Tweetup! Ann Arbor, Michigan, Saturday, July 18. Events/Conferences 12th Annual Accessing Higher Ground Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference10-14 November 2009Westin Hotel in Westminster, Colorado, U.S.A. IEEE Accessing the Future conference 20-21 July 2009Northeastern UniversityBoston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. LinkedIn event page Full Frontal JavaScript Conference 20 November 2009One day; £100 Duke Of York's Picturehouse; Preston Circus; Brighton, BN1 4NA Twitter and Web Accessibility Accessible Twitter updates: Ajax for deleting DM. Popular Links page; added categories. Add URL shortening to DM page. Add (limited) functionality to update user profile. Compiled List of links from #TwitterBook (look who's first!) Other Accessible Twitter applications: Try a mo... Download Web Axe Episode 72 (Twitter Accessibility, Events, and News) Chatter Feedback for new Web Axe theme song? Opera 10 beta Where are the headings? AudioBoo "A Eulogy For IE6" by Paul Boag. Web Axe-Refresh Detroit Tweetup! Ann Arbor, Michigan, Saturday, July 18. Events/Conferences 12th Annual Accessing Higher Ground Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference10-14 November 2009Westin Hotel in Westminster, Colorado, U.S.A. IEEE Accessing the Future conference 20-21 July 2009Northeastern UniversityBoston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. LinkedIn event page Full Frontal JavaScript Conference 20 November 2009One day; £100 Duke Of York's Picturehouse; Preston Circus; Brighton, BN1 4NA Twitter and Web Accessibility Accessible Twitter updates: Ajax for deleting DM. Popular Links page; added categories. Add URL shortening to DM page. Add (limited) functionality to update user profile. Compiled List of links from #TwitterBook (look who's first!) Other Accessible Twitter applications: Try a mobile web app. Tweete was created as an alternative to the mobile web and slandr mobile clients. Twitstat Mobile Slandr Dabr TwInbox - plug-in for Microsoft Outlook Tweet s60: totally accessible Twitter mobile app for Nokia Series 60 devices (via @AbilityNet @BlindTwit) Other issues: Accessibility issues with Twitter background Twitter Quietly Fixes Broken Audio CAPTCHA Software change makes Twitter more accessible for the visually impaired (CAPTCHA to re-CAPTCHA) More News Adopting WCAG 2 - from DingoAccess 10 Ways to make your site accessible using web standards Download Web Axe Episode 72 (Twitter Accessibility, Events, and News) Chatter Feedback for new Web Axe theme song? Opera 10 beta Where are the headings? AudioBoo "A Eulogy For IE6" by Paul Boag. Web Axe-Refresh Detroit Tweetup! Ann Arbor, Michigan, Saturday, July 18. Events/Conferences 12th Annual Accessing Higher Ground Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference10-14 November 2009Westin Hotel in Westminster, Colorado, U.S.A. IEEE Accessing the Future conference 20-21 July 2009Northeastern UniversityBoston, Massachusetts, U.S.A. LinkedIn event page Full Frontal JavaScript Conference 20 November 2009One day; £100 Duke Of York's Picturehouse; Preston Circus; Brighton, BN1 4NA Twitter and Web Accessibility Accessible Twitter updates: Ajax for deleting DM. Popular Links page; added categories. Add URL shortening to DM page. Add (limited) functionality to update user profile. Compiled List of links from #TwitterBook (look who's first!) Other Accessible Twitter applications: Try a mobile web app. Tweete was created as an alternative to the mobile web and slandr mobile clients. Twitstat Mobile Slandr Dabr TwInbox - plug-in for Microsoft Outlook Tweet s60: totally accessible Twitter mobile app for Nokia Series 60 devices (via @AbilityNet @BlindTwit) Other issues: Accessibility issues with Twitter background Twitter Quietly Fixes Broken Audio CAPTCHA Software change makes Twitter more accessible for the visually impaired (CAPTCHA to re-CAPTCHA) More News Adopting WCAG 2 - from DingoAccess 10 Ways to make your site accessible using web standards tag:odeo.com,2009-06-22,24758007 Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:50:10 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog conference, podcast, CAPTCHA, wcag2 http://odeo.com/episodes/24730349-Podcast-71-Gez-Lemon-Interview-ARIA Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script New... Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script News Links View the slides 5 layers of web accessibility. IBM & IEEE to host Accessing the Future conference in Boston, MA on July 20-21, 2009. Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script News Links View the slides 5 layers of web accessibility. IBM & IEEE to host Accessing the Future conference in Boston, MA on July 20-21, 2009. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-19,24730349 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:08:30 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, Interview, Administrative, standards, aria, expert http://odeo.com/episodes/24758008-Podcast-71-Gez-Lemon-Interview-ARIA Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script New... Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script News Links View the slides 5 layers of web accessibility. IBM & IEEE to host Accessing the Future conference in Boston, MA on July 20-21, 2009. Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script News Links View the slides 5 layers of web accessibility. IBM & IEEE to host Accessing the Future conference in Boston, MA on July 20-21, 2009. tag:odeo.com,2009-06-19,24758008 Fri, 19 Jun 2009 08:08:30 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, Interview, Administrative, standards, aria, expert http://odeo.com/episodes/24559366-Podcast-71-Gez-Lemon-Interview-ARIA Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script New... Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script News Links View the slides 5 layers of web accessibility. IBM & IEEE to host Accessing the Future conference in Boston, MA on July 20-21, 2009. Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script News Links View the slides 5 layers of web accessibility. IBM & IEEE to host Accessing the Future conference in Boston, MA on July 20-21, 2009. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-11,24559366 Mon, 11 May 2009 00:04:48 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, Interview, Administrative, standards, aria, expert http://odeo.com/episodes/24680924-Podcast-71-Gez-Lemon-Interview-ARIA Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script New... Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script News Links View the slides 5 layers of web accessibility. IBM & IEEE to host Accessing the Future conference in Boston, MA on July 20-21, 2009. Download Web Axe Episode 71 (Gez Lemon Interview & ARIA) New Song! This episode premieres the new Web Axe theme song, check it out! Created by Jeff Ensign. Gez Lemon, ARIA expertGez Lemon is a world leader in the web accessibility profession and its community. He as an Accessibility Consultant for The Paciello Group, a company devoted to accessibility in technology. He maintains a popular blog Juicy Studio in which he's written many excellent articles and innovative scripts. Gez is a member of the Web Standards Project (WaSP) Accessibility Task Force (ATF). He's become an expert in WAI ARIA (Accessible Rich Internet Applications). You may also follow Gez on Twitter (or Accessible Twitter) @GezLemon. Related Links Introduction to WAI ARIA ARIA Best Practices Web 2.0 Accessibility with WAI-ARIA FAQ Paciello Group Blog How Can I Validate (X)HTML + ARIA? (DTD for ARIA) Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar ARIA for Google Calendar, Finance and News Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script News Links View the slides 5 layers of web accessibility. IBM & IEEE to host Accessing the Future conference in Boston, MA on July 20-21, 2009. tag:odeo.com,2009-05-11,24680924 Mon, 11 May 2009 00:04:48 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, Interview, Administrative, standards, aria, expert http://odeo.com/episodes/24472339-Podcast-70-Lots-of-News-Events Download Web Axe Episode 70 (Lots of News & Events) Chatter Web Axe over 2,000 subscribers, thank you followers! Phone call from Web Axe listener (from last podcast on Recovery.gov site review). Accessible Twitter updates. Dennis changed the name of his freelance company to Web Overhauls. Refresh Detroit: Noel Jackson from Automattic (wordpress) presented on transitioning from print design to web design. Tuesday we have a panel discussing writing for the web In the News Petition to make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible - Web Axe signature number for this petition is 713. An Open Letter To Game Developers - "Game Accessibility. It's a loaded phrase and I know that it scares the hell out of many developers." The Jodi Awards For Excellence In Accessible Cultural Websites And Digital Media - Word files without proper headings and alt text. 9 Reasons Why Accessibility Matters 10 Accessibility Tips for RSS Feeds - Mmm...No different than regular web accessibility?! Ways to understand AT-... Download Web Axe Episode 70 (Lots of News & Events) Chatter Web Axe over 2,000 subscribers, thank you followers! Phone call from Web Axe listener (from last podcast on Recovery.gov site review). Accessible Twitter updates. Dennis changed the name of his freelance company to Web Overhauls. Refresh Detroit: Noel Jackson from Automattic (wordpress) presented on transitioning from print design to web design. Tuesday we have a panel discussing writing for the web In the News Petition to make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible - Web Axe signature number for this petition is 713. An Open Letter To Game Developers - "Game Accessibility. It's a loaded phrase and I know that it scares the hell out of many developers." The Jodi Awards For Excellence In Accessible Cultural Websites And Digital Media - Word files without proper headings and alt text. 9 Reasons Why Accessibility Matters 10 Accessibility Tips for RSS Feeds - Mmm...No different than regular web accessibility?! Ways to understand AT- Making accessibility more real Facebook Commits To Making Social Networking More Accessible For Visually Challenged Users ouTube launches CaptionTube: A caption editor WaSP InterAct Curriculum - Great resource! Events/Conferences Attended Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco @feather registration: Ajax/Accessibility workshop in Ottawa: http://furtherahead.com/workshops/ottawa2009/ promo code fatwitter $100 off The Access U 2009 Conference is coming up fast! It will be held at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, on Monday May 11 and Tuesday, May 12, 2009 (with post-conference sessions on May 13). Pricing and registration information. Accessibility in Technical Communication and the Workplace (June 13, 14, Churchill College Cambridge, England) Download Web Axe Episode 70 (Lots of News & Events) Chatter Web Axe over 2,000 subscribers, thank you followers! Phone call from Web Axe listener (from last podcast on Recovery.gov site review). Accessible Twitter updates. Dennis changed the name of his freelance company to Web Overhauls. Refresh Detroit: Noel Jackson from Automattic (wordpress) presented on transitioning from print design to web design. Tuesday we have a panel discussing writing for the web In the News Petition to make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible - Web Axe signature number for this petition is 713. An Open Letter To Game Developers - "Game Accessibility. It's a loaded phrase and I know that it scares the hell out of many developers." The Jodi Awards For Excellence In Accessible Cultural Websites And Digital Media - Word files without proper headings and alt text. 9 Reasons Why Accessibility Matters 10 Accessibility Tips for RSS Feeds - Mmm...No different than regular web accessibility?! Ways to understand AT- Making accessibility more real Facebook Commits To Making Social Networking More Accessible For Visually Challenged Users ouTube launches CaptionTube: A caption editor WaSP InterAct Curriculum - Great resource! Events/Conferences Attended Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco @feather registration: Ajax/Accessibility workshop in Ottawa: http://furtherahead.com/workshops/ottawa2009/ promo code fatwitter $100 off The Access U 2009 Conference is coming up fast! It will be held at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, on Monday May 11 and Tuesday, May 12, 2009 (with post-conference sessions on May 13). Pricing and registration information. Accessibility in Technical Communication and the Workplace (June 13, 14, Churchill College Cambridge, England) tag:odeo.com,2009-04-19,24472339 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:59:48 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog conference, podcast, event, caption, "assistive technology" http://odeo.com/episodes/24680926-Podcast-70-Lots-of-News-Events Download Web Axe Episode 70 (Lots of News & Events) Chatter Web Axe over 2,000 subscribers, thank you followers! Phone call from Web Axe listener (from last podcast on Recovery.gov site review). Accessible Twitter updates. Dennis changed the name of his freelance company to Web Overhauls. Refresh Detroit: Noel Jackson from Automattic (wordpress) presented on transitioning from print design to web design. Tuesday we have a panel discussing writing for the web In the News Petition to make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible - Web Axe signature number for this petition is 713. An Open Letter To Game Developers - "Game Accessibility. It's a loaded phrase and I know that it scares the hell out of many developers." The Jodi Awards For Excellence In Accessible Cultural Websites And Digital Media - Word files without proper headings and alt text. 9 Reasons Why Accessibility Matters 10 Accessibility Tips for RSS Feeds - Mmm...No different than regular web accessibility?! Ways to understand AT-... Download Web Axe Episode 70 (Lots of News & Events) Chatter Web Axe over 2,000 subscribers, thank you followers! Phone call from Web Axe listener (from last podcast on Recovery.gov site review). Accessible Twitter updates. Dennis changed the name of his freelance company to Web Overhauls. Refresh Detroit: Noel Jackson from Automattic (wordpress) presented on transitioning from print design to web design. Tuesday we have a panel discussing writing for the web In the News Petition to make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible - Web Axe signature number for this petition is 713. An Open Letter To Game Developers - "Game Accessibility. It's a loaded phrase and I know that it scares the hell out of many developers." The Jodi Awards For Excellence In Accessible Cultural Websites And Digital Media - Word files without proper headings and alt text. 9 Reasons Why Accessibility Matters 10 Accessibility Tips for RSS Feeds - Mmm...No different than regular web accessibility?! Ways to understand AT- Making accessibility more real Facebook Commits To Making Social Networking More Accessible For Visually Challenged Users ouTube launches CaptionTube: A caption editor WaSP InterAct Curriculum - Great resource! Events/Conferences Attended Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco @feather registration: Ajax/Accessibility workshop in Ottawa: http://furtherahead.com/workshops/ottawa2009/ promo code fatwitter $100 off The Access U 2009 Conference is coming up fast! It will be held at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, on Monday May 11 and Tuesday, May 12, 2009 (with post-conference sessions on May 13). Pricing and registration information. Accessibility in Technical Communication and the Workplace (June 13, 14, Churchill College Cambridge, England) Download Web Axe Episode 70 (Lots of News & Events) Chatter Web Axe over 2,000 subscribers, thank you followers! Phone call from Web Axe listener (from last podcast on Recovery.gov site review). Accessible Twitter updates. Dennis changed the name of his freelance company to Web Overhauls. Refresh Detroit: Noel Jackson from Automattic (wordpress) presented on transitioning from print design to web design. Tuesday we have a panel discussing writing for the web In the News Petition to make the Kindle 2 Fully Accessible - Web Axe signature number for this petition is 713. An Open Letter To Game Developers - "Game Accessibility. It's a loaded phrase and I know that it scares the hell out of many developers." The Jodi Awards For Excellence In Accessible Cultural Websites And Digital Media - Word files without proper headings and alt text. 9 Reasons Why Accessibility Matters 10 Accessibility Tips for RSS Feeds - Mmm...No different than regular web accessibility?! Ways to understand AT- Making accessibility more real Facebook Commits To Making Social Networking More Accessible For Visually Challenged Users ouTube launches CaptionTube: A caption editor WaSP InterAct Curriculum - Great resource! Events/Conferences Attended Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco @feather registration: Ajax/Accessibility workshop in Ottawa: http://furtherahead.com/workshops/ottawa2009/ promo code fatwitter $100 off The Access U 2009 Conference is coming up fast! It will be held at St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas, on Monday May 11 and Tuesday, May 12, 2009 (with post-conference sessions on May 13). Pricing and registration information. Accessibility in Technical Communication and the Workplace (June 13, 14, Churchill College Cambridge, England) tag:odeo.com,2009-04-19,24680926 Sun, 19 Apr 2009 19:59:48 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog conference, podcast, event, caption, "assistive technology" http://odeo.com/episodes/24316237-Podcast-69-Recovery-gov-Site-Review Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test environments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test environments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test environments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles tag:odeo.com,2009-03-16,24316237 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:53:08 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog conference, podcast, twitter, event, Review, standards http://odeo.com/episodes/24680927-Podcast-69-Recovery-gov-Site-Review Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test environments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test environments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test environments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles tag:odeo.com,2009-03-16,24680927 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:53:08 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog conference, podcast, twitter, event, Review, standards http://odeo.com/episodes/24312914-Podcast-69-Recovery-gov-Site-Review Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test environments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test environments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test environments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles tag:odeo.com,2009-03-16,24312914 Mon, 16 Mar 2009 09:18:45 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog conference, podcast, twitter, event, Review, standards http://odeo.com/episodes/24309446-Podcast-69-Recovery-gov-Site-Review Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test enviornments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test enviornments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles Download Web Axe Episode 69 (Recovery.gov Site Review) Events Web 2.0 Expo 2009 (San Francisco) March 31- April 3. Refresh Detroit, Transitioning from Print to Web Design, Wednesday, March 25, Washtenaw Community College, Ann Arbor, Michigan. European Accessibility Forum Frankfurt, Germany, 27 March 2009. CSUN Tweetup 2009 - "Twitter Meetup" at the CSUN Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference, March 18. SXSW is going on right now (jealous I am). News Web Axe is now on Twitter. Don't forget to use Accessible Twitter! 456 Bereastreet offers some advice on how to setup screen reader test enviornments WCAG 2.0 States that all text should be able to be resized to 200% Call for review of the WAI-ARIA working document Main SegmentDennis and Ross give a web accessibility review of the new U.S. government site Recovery.gov. Topics discussed include: skip-to link menu headings XHTML validation tables forms ALT attributes titles tag:odeo.com,2009-03-15,24309446 Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:46:13 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog conference, podcast, twitter, event, Review, standards http://odeo.com/episodes/24053386-Podcast-68-Accessible-Twitter-and-News Download Web Axe Episode 68 (Accessible Twitter and News) Events Introduction to Usability: An Interactive Discussion, February 10, 2009 Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) News Accessible Twitter is here! (Alpha) Created by Dennis. CSS Style Guide Tool. Created by Ross. Should we start thinking about HTML5? (despite 2022 predictions) The rise of HTML5 - Addicto Time to start getting used to the conventions - Malarky Government websites are inaccessible to disabled people WCAG 2.0 Theme Song Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Screen Reader Survey Results WebAIM Screen Reader Survey: A Closer Look at Flash and PDF Result (Adobe) WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist Easy YouTube caption creator - a very rough first ‘build’ Download Web Axe Episode 68 (Accessible Twitter and News) Events Introduction to Usability: An Interactive Discussion, February 10, 2009 Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) News Accessible Twitter is here! (Alpha) Created by Dennis. CSS Style Guide Tool. Created by Ross. Should we start thinking about HTML5? (despite 2022 predictions) The rise of HTML5 - Addicto Time to start getting used to the conventions - Malarky Government websites are inaccessible to disabled people WCAG 2.0 Theme Song Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Screen Reader Survey Results WebAIM Screen Reader Survey: A Closer Look at Flash and PDF Result (Adobe) WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist Easy YouTube caption creator - a very rough first ‘build’ Download Web Axe Episode 68 (Accessible Twitter and News) Events Introduction to Usability: An Interactive Discussion, February 10, 2009 Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) News Accessible Twitter is here! (Alpha) Created by Dennis. CSS Style Guide Tool. Created by Ross. Should we start thinking about HTML5? (despite 2022 predictions) The rise of HTML5 - Addicto Time to start getting used to the conventions - Malarky Government websites are inaccessible to disabled people WCAG 2.0 Theme Song Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Screen Reader Survey Results WebAIM Screen Reader Survey: A Closer Look at Flash and PDF Result (Adobe) WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist Easy YouTube caption creator - a very rough first ‘build’ tag:odeo.com,2009-02-10,24053386 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:51:06 -0800 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, twitter, event, screenreader, wcag, webaim, caption http://odeo.com/episodes/24680930-Podcast-68-Accessible-Twitter-and-News Download Web Axe Episode 68 (Accessible Twitter and News) Events Introduction to Usability: An Interactive Discussion, February 10, 2009 Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) News Accessible Twitter is here! (Alpha) Created by Dennis. CSS Style Guide Tool. Created by Ross. Should we start thinking about HTML5? (despite 2022 predictions) The rise of HTML5 - Addicto Time to start getting used to the conventions - Malarky Government websites are inaccessible to disabled people WCAG 2.0 Theme Song Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Screen Reader Survey Results WebAIM Screen Reader Survey: A Closer Look at Flash and PDF Result (Adobe) WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist Easy YouTube caption creator - a very rough first ‘build’ Download Web Axe Episode 68 (Accessible Twitter and News) Events Introduction to Usability: An Interactive Discussion, February 10, 2009 Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) News Accessible Twitter is here! (Alpha) Created by Dennis. CSS Style Guide Tool. Created by Ross. Should we start thinking about HTML5? (despite 2022 predictions) The rise of HTML5 - Addicto Time to start getting used to the conventions - Malarky Government websites are inaccessible to disabled people WCAG 2.0 Theme Song Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Screen Reader Survey Results WebAIM Screen Reader Survey: A Closer Look at Flash and PDF Result (Adobe) WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist Easy YouTube caption creator - a very rough first ‘build’ Download Web Axe Episode 68 (Accessible Twitter and News) Events Introduction to Usability: An Interactive Discussion, February 10, 2009 Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) News Accessible Twitter is here! (Alpha) Created by Dennis. CSS Style Guide Tool. Created by Ross. Should we start thinking about HTML5? (despite 2022 predictions) The rise of HTML5 - Addicto Time to start getting used to the conventions - Malarky Government websites are inaccessible to disabled people WCAG 2.0 Theme Song Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Screen Reader Survey Results WebAIM Screen Reader Survey: A Closer Look at Flash and PDF Result (Adobe) WebAIM's WCAG 2.0 Checklist Easy YouTube caption creator - a very rough first ‘build’ tag:odeo.com,2009-02-10,24680930 Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:51:06 -0800 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, twitter, event, screenreader, wcag, webaim, caption http://odeo.com/episodes/24053387-Podcast-67-WCAG2-events-CS4-John-Slatin Download Web Axe Episode 67 (WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin) News & Events Joe Clark wanted to be listed in Ross' typography blog post Ross in the news (co-working style enviornment) Refresh Detroit meeting November 19 will focus on web accessibility Dennis to speak at Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference; November 11-14, 2008; Boulder, Colorado WCAG 2.0 nearing completion WCAG 2.0 succeeds in test sites, moves to last stage So near to the finish line by Accessify Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on 3 November 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been implemented in real sites. The next stage is the final publication, which is expected in December 2008. Podcasts from Accessibility Conference last spring put on by AbilityNet in UK Download the podcasts, transcripts and summaries of Accessibility 2.0 presentations! CS4 Accessibility Adobe's ... Download Web Axe Episode 67 (WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin) News & Events Joe Clark wanted to be listed in Ross' typography blog post Ross in the news (co-working style enviornment) Refresh Detroit meeting November 19 will focus on web accessibility Dennis to speak at Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference; November 11-14, 2008; Boulder, Colorado WCAG 2.0 nearing completion WCAG 2.0 succeeds in test sites, moves to last stage So near to the finish line by Accessify Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on 3 November 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been implemented in real sites. The next stage is the final publication, which is expected in December 2008. Podcasts from Accessibility Conference last spring put on by AbilityNet in UK Download the podcasts, transcripts and summaries of Accessibility 2.0 presentations! CS4 Accessibility Adobe's Favorite CS4 Accessibility Features Notably, Flash video playback controls are accessible by default. John Slatin Fund Project John Slatin Accessibility Fund Project The John Slatin Fund Accessibility isn't a one-person job Matches accessibility experts with companies wanting a brief accessibility audit of their websites. In return for the audit, site owners will contribute a minimum of $500 to help fund the medical expenses incurred by John's family during his long illness." Revisiting Screen Resolution Should Web Developers Support 800×600? Download Web Axe Episode 67 (WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin) News & Events Joe Clark wanted to be listed in Ross' typography blog post Ross in the news (co-working style enviornment) Refresh Detroit meeting November 19 will focus on web accessibility Dennis to speak at Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference; November 11-14, 2008; Boulder, Colorado WCAG 2.0 nearing completion WCAG 2.0 succeeds in test sites, moves to last stage So near to the finish line by Accessify Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on 3 November 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been implemented in real sites. The next stage is the final publication, which is expected in December 2008. Podcasts from Accessibility Conference last spring put on by AbilityNet in UK Download the podcasts, transcripts and summaries of Accessibility 2.0 presentations! CS4 Accessibility Adobe's Favorite CS4 Accessibility Features Notably, Flash video playback controls are accessible by default. John Slatin Fund Project John Slatin Accessibility Fund Project The John Slatin Fund Accessibility isn't a one-person job Matches accessibility experts with companies wanting a brief accessibility audit of their websites. In return for the audit, site owners will contribute a minimum of $500 to help fund the medical expenses incurred by John's family during his long illness." Revisiting Screen Resolution Should Web Developers Support 800×600? tag:odeo.com,2008-12-03,24053387 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:14:01 -0800 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog conference, podcast, resolution, Adobe, wcag, screen http://odeo.com/episodes/23702772-Podcast-67-WCAG2-events-CS4-John-Slatin Download Web Axe Episode 67 (WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin) News & Events Joe Clark wanted to be listed in Ross' typography blog post Ross in the news (co-working style enviornment) Refresh Detroit meeting November 19 will focus on web accessibility Dennis to speak at Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference; November 11-14, 2008; Boulder, Colorado WCAG 2.0 nearing completion WCAG 2.0 succeeds in test sites, moves to last stage So near to the finish line by Accessify Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on 3 November 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been implemented in real sites. The next stage is the final publication, which is expected in December 2008. Podcasts from Accessibility Conference last spring put on by AbilityNet in UK Download the podcasts, transcripts and summaries of Accessibility 2.0 presentations! CS4 Accessibility Adobe's ... Download Web Axe Episode 67 (WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin) News & Events Joe Clark wanted to be listed in Ross' typography blog post Ross in the news (co-working style enviornment) Refresh Detroit meeting November 19 will focus on web accessibility Dennis to speak at Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference; November 11-14, 2008; Boulder, Colorado WCAG 2.0 nearing completion WCAG 2.0 succeeds in test sites, moves to last stage So near to the finish line by Accessify Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on 3 November 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been implemented in real sites. The next stage is the final publication, which is expected in December 2008. Podcasts from Accessibility Conference last spring put on by AbilityNet in UK Download the podcasts, transcripts and summaries of Accessibility 2.0 presentations! CS4 Accessibility Adobe's Favorite CS4 Accessibility Features Notably, Flash video playback controls are accessible by default. John Slatin Fund Project John Slatin Accessibility Fund Project The John Slatin Fund Accessibility isn't a one-person job Matches accessibility experts with companies wanting a brief accessibility audit of their websites. In return for the audit, site owners will contribute a minimum of $500 to help fund the medical expenses incurred by John's family during his long illness." Revisiting Screen Resolution Should Web Developers Support 800×600? Download Web Axe Episode 67 (WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin) News & Events Joe Clark wanted to be listed in Ross' typography blog post Ross in the news (co-working style enviornment) Refresh Detroit meeting November 19 will focus on web accessibility Dennis to speak at Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference; November 11-14, 2008; Boulder, Colorado WCAG 2.0 nearing completion WCAG 2.0 succeeds in test sites, moves to last stage So near to the finish line by Accessify Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on 3 November 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been implemented in real sites. The next stage is the final publication, which is expected in December 2008. Podcasts from Accessibility Conference last spring put on by AbilityNet in UK Download the podcasts, transcripts and summaries of Accessibility 2.0 presentations! CS4 Accessibility Adobe's Favorite CS4 Accessibility Features Notably, Flash video playback controls are accessible by default. John Slatin Fund Project John Slatin Accessibility Fund Project The John Slatin Fund Accessibility isn't a one-person job Matches accessibility experts with companies wanting a brief accessibility audit of their websites. In return for the audit, site owners will contribute a minimum of $500 to help fund the medical expenses incurred by John's family during his long illness." Revisiting Screen Resolution Should Web Developers Support 800×600? tag:odeo.com,2008-12-03,23702772 Wed, 03 Dec 2008 18:14:01 -0800 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog conference, podcast, resolution, Adobe, wcag, screen http://odeo.com/episodes/23598653-Podcast-67-WCAG2-events-CS4-John-Slatin Download Web Axe Episode 67 (WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin) News & Events Joe Clark wanted to be listed in Ross' typography blog post Ross in the news (co-working style enviornment) Refresh Detroit meeting November 19 will focus on web accessibility Dennis to speak at Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference; November 11-14, 2008; Boulder, Colorado WCAG 2.0 nearing completion WCAG 2.0 succeeds in test sites, moves to last stage So near to the finish line by Accessify "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on 3 November 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been implemented in real sites. The next stage is the final publication, which is expected in December 2008." Podcasts from Accessibility Conference last spring put on by AbilityNet in UK Download the podcasts, transcripts and summaries of Accessibility 2.0 presentations! CS4 Accessibility Adobe'... Download Web Axe Episode 67 (WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin) News & Events Joe Clark wanted to be listed in Ross' typography blog post Ross in the news (co-working style enviornment) Refresh Detroit meeting November 19 will focus on web accessibility Dennis to speak at Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference; November 11-14, 2008; Boulder, Colorado WCAG 2.0 nearing completion WCAG 2.0 succeeds in test sites, moves to last stage So near to the finish line by Accessify "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on 3 November 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been implemented in real sites. The next stage is the final publication, which is expected in December 2008." Podcasts from Accessibility Conference last spring put on by AbilityNet in UK Download the podcasts, transcripts and summaries of Accessibility 2.0 presentations! CS4 Accessibility Adobe's Favorite CS4 Accessibility Features Notably, Flash video playback controls are accessible by default. John Slatin Fund Project John Slatin Accessibility Fund Project The John Slatin Fund Accessibility isn’t a one-person job "Matches accessibility experts with companies wanting a brief accessibility audit of their websites. In return for the audit, site owners will contribute a minimum of $500 to help fund the medical expenses incurred by John's family during his long illness." Revisiting Screen Resolution Should Web Developers Support 800×600? Download Web Axe Episode 67 (WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin) News & Events Joe Clark wanted to be listed in Ross' typography blog post Ross in the news (co-working style enviornment) Refresh Detroit meeting November 19 will focus on web accessibility Dennis to speak at Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference; November 11-14, 2008; Boulder, Colorado WCAG 2.0 nearing completion WCAG 2.0 succeeds in test sites, moves to last stage So near to the finish line by Accessify "Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 was published as a W3C Proposed Recommendation on 3 November 2008. This means that the technical material of WCAG 2.0 is complete and it has been implemented in real sites. The next stage is the final publication, which is expected in December 2008." Podcasts from Accessibility Conference last spring put on by AbilityNet in UK Download the podcasts, transcripts and summaries of Accessibility 2.0 presentations! CS4 Accessibility Adobe's Favorite CS4 Accessibility Features Notably, Flash video playback controls are accessible by default. John Slatin Fund Project John Slatin Accessibility Fund Project The John Slatin Fund Accessibility isn’t a one-person job "Matches accessibility experts with companies wanting a brief accessibility audit of their websites. In return for the audit, site owners will contribute a minimum of $500 to help fund the medical expenses incurred by John's family during his long illness." Revisiting Screen Resolution Should Web Developers Support 800×600? tag:odeo.com,2008-11-09,23598653 Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:17:58 -0800 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog conference, podcast, resolution, Adobe, wcag, screen http://odeo.com/episodes/24053388-Podcast-66-Target-YouTube-Fangs-and-more Jammed-packed episode on several web accessibility topics with special co-host Jared Smith of WebAIM. Download Web Axe Episode 66 (Target, YouTube, Fangs, and more) NFB vs. Target Lawsuit NFB vs. Target Lawsuit is Settled! Target Web Lawsuit: The Six Million Dollar Question Target Lawsuit Settled from WebAIM Other Topics Web Axe Nominated in .net magazine Awards! [vote now] Petition to Save UT Accessibility Institute YouTube now has video captioning available Fangs add-on available for Firefox 3 from Peter Krantz Web Accessibility Gone Wild Jammed-packed episode on several web accessibility topics with special co-host Jared Smith of WebAIM. Download Web Axe Episode 66 (Target, YouTube, Fangs, and more) NFB vs. Target Lawsuit NFB vs. Target Lawsuit is Settled! Target Web Lawsuit: The Six Million Dollar Question Target Lawsuit Settled from WebAIM Other Topics Web Axe Nominated in .net magazine Awards! [vote now] Petition to Save UT Accessibility Institute YouTube now has video captioning available Fangs add-on available for Firefox 3 from Peter Krantz Web Accessibility Gone Wild Jammed-packed episode on several web accessibility topics with special co-host Jared Smith of WebAIM. Download Web Axe Episode 66 (Target, YouTube, Fangs, and more) NFB vs. Target Lawsuit NFB vs. Target Lawsuit is Settled! Target Web Lawsuit: The Six Million Dollar Question Target Lawsuit Settled from WebAIM Other Topics Web Axe Nominated in .net magazine Awards! [vote now] Petition to Save UT Accessibility Institute YouTube now has video captioning available Fangs add-on available for Firefox 3 from Peter Krantz Web Accessibility Gone Wild tag:odeo.com,2008-09-13,24053388 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:14:29 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, screenreader, law, webaim, caption http://odeo.com/episodes/23345127-Podcast-66-Target-YouTube-Fangs-and-more Jammed-packed episode on several web accessibility topics with special co-host Jared Smith of WebAIM. Download Web Axe Episode 66 (Target, YouTube, Fangs, and more) NFB vs. Target Lawsuit NFB vs. Target Lawsuit is Settled! Target Web Lawsuit: The Six Million Dollar Question Target Lawsuit Settled from WebAIM Other Topics Web Axe Nominated in .net magazine Awards! [vote now] Petition to Save UT Accessibility Institute YouTube now has video captioning available Fangs add-on available for Firefox 3 from Peter Krantz Web Accessibility Gone Wild Jammed-packed episode on several web accessibility topics with special co-host Jared Smith of WebAIM. Download Web Axe Episode 66 (Target, YouTube, Fangs, and more) NFB vs. Target Lawsuit NFB vs. Target Lawsuit is Settled! Target Web Lawsuit: The Six Million Dollar Question Target Lawsuit Settled from WebAIM Other Topics Web Axe Nominated in .net magazine Awards! [vote now] Petition to Save UT Accessibility Institute YouTube now has video captioning available Fangs add-on available for Firefox 3 from Peter Krantz Web Accessibility Gone Wild Jammed-packed episode on several web accessibility topics with special co-host Jared Smith of WebAIM. Download Web Axe Episode 66 (Target, YouTube, Fangs, and more) NFB vs. Target Lawsuit NFB vs. Target Lawsuit is Settled! Target Web Lawsuit: The Six Million Dollar Question Target Lawsuit Settled from WebAIM Other Topics Web Axe Nominated in .net magazine Awards! [vote now] Petition to Save UT Accessibility Institute YouTube now has video captioning available Fangs add-on available for Firefox 3 from Peter Krantz Web Accessibility Gone Wild tag:odeo.com,2008-09-13,23345127 Sat, 13 Sep 2008 13:14:29 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, screenreader, law, webaim, caption http://odeo.com/episodes/24053389-Podcast-65-Top-10-SXSW-Nikita-and-Joe Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of topics including web accessibility news and events, a top 10 list, SXSW 2009, Nikita the Spider validator, and our friend Joe Dolson. Download Web Axe Episode 65 (Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe) Chatter Dennis' Trip to MI TimeTracker - accessible time-tracking web application Inaccessible AT&T web site News Web EXCESSIBILITY - Beast Blog 10 Web Design Books you probably missed but owe yourself to read ClearLeft - Silverback released Top Ten Tips? Ten Top accessibility developer tips from Epic (UK) SXSW Panels 2009 Vote for SXSW panels March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas SXSW Interactive Festival SXSW Panels about accessibility with Adobe Nikita the Spider Nikita the Spider Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider (456 Berea St) The most common validation error is neglecting to specify an alt attribute for img elements Joe Dolson Web Accessibility is not SEO Spam vs. Accessibility Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of topics including web accessibility news and events, a top 10 list, SXSW 2009, Nikita the Spider validator, and our friend Joe Dolson. Download Web Axe Episode 65 (Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe) Chatter Dennis' Trip to MI TimeTracker - accessible time-tracking web application Inaccessible AT&T web site News Web EXCESSIBILITY - Beast Blog 10 Web Design Books you probably missed but owe yourself to read ClearLeft - Silverback released Top Ten Tips? Ten Top accessibility developer tips from Epic (UK) SXSW Panels 2009 Vote for SXSW panels March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas SXSW Interactive Festival SXSW Panels about accessibility with Adobe Nikita the Spider Nikita the Spider Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider (456 Berea St) The most common validation error is neglecting to specify an alt attribute for img elements Joe Dolson Web Accessibility is not SEO Spam vs. Accessibility Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of topics including web accessibility news and events, a top 10 list, SXSW 2009, Nikita the Spider validator, and our friend Joe Dolson. Download Web Axe Episode 65 (Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe) Chatter Dennis' Trip to MI TimeTracker - accessible time-tracking web application Inaccessible AT&T web site News Web EXCESSIBILITY - Beast Blog 10 Web Design Books you probably missed but owe yourself to read ClearLeft - Silverback released Top Ten Tips? Ten Top accessibility developer tips from Epic (UK) SXSW Panels 2009 Vote for SXSW panels March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas SXSW Interactive Festival SXSW Panels about accessibility with Adobe Nikita the Spider Nikita the Spider Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider (456 Berea St) The most common validation error is neglecting to specify an alt attribute for img elements Joe Dolson Web Accessibility is not SEO Spam vs. Accessibility tag:odeo.com,2008-08-14,24053389 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:53:21 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, event, expert, validation http://odeo.com/episodes/23181264-Podcast-65-Top-10-SXSW-Nikita-and-Joe Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of topics including web accessibility news and events, a top 10 list, SXSW 2009, Nikita the Spider validator, and our friend Joe Dolson. Download Web Axe Episode 65 (Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe) Chatter Dennis' Trip to MI TimeTracker - accessible time-tracking web application Inaccessible AT&T web site News Web EXCESSIBILITY - Beast Blog 10 Web Design Books you probably missed but owe yourself to read ClearLeft - Silverback released Top Ten Tips? Ten Top accessibility developer tips from Epic (UK) SXSW Panels 2009 Vote for SXSW panels March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas SXSW Interactive Festival SXSW Panels about accessibility with Adobe Nikita the Spider Nikita the Spider Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider (456 Berea St) The most common validation error is neglecting to specify an alt attribute for img elements Joe Dolson Web Accessibility is not SEO Spam vs. Accessibility Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of topics including web accessibility news and events, a top 10 list, SXSW 2009, Nikita the Spider validator, and our friend Joe Dolson. Download Web Axe Episode 65 (Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe) Chatter Dennis' Trip to MI TimeTracker - accessible time-tracking web application Inaccessible AT&T web site News Web EXCESSIBILITY - Beast Blog 10 Web Design Books you probably missed but owe yourself to read ClearLeft - Silverback released Top Ten Tips? Ten Top accessibility developer tips from Epic (UK) SXSW Panels 2009 Vote for SXSW panels March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas SXSW Interactive Festival SXSW Panels about accessibility with Adobe Nikita the Spider Nikita the Spider Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider (456 Berea St) The most common validation error is neglecting to specify an alt attribute for img elements Joe Dolson Web Accessibility is not SEO Spam vs. Accessibility Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of topics including web accessibility news and events, a top 10 list, SXSW 2009, Nikita the Spider validator, and our friend Joe Dolson. Download Web Axe Episode 65 (Top 10, SXSW, Nikita, and Joe) Chatter Dennis' Trip to MI TimeTracker - accessible time-tracking web application Inaccessible AT&T web site News Web EXCESSIBILITY - Beast Blog 10 Web Design Books you probably missed but owe yourself to read ClearLeft - Silverback released Top Ten Tips? Ten Top accessibility developer tips from Epic (UK) SXSW Panels 2009 Vote for SXSW panels March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas SXSW Interactive Festival SXSW Panels about accessibility with Adobe Nikita the Spider Nikita the Spider Validation statistics from Nikita the Spider (456 Berea St) The most common validation error is neglecting to specify an alt attribute for img elements Joe Dolson Web Accessibility is not SEO Spam vs. Accessibility tag:odeo.com,2008-08-14,23181264 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:53:21 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, event, expert, validation http://odeo.com/episodes/23075151-Podcast-64-Language-Abbreviations-and-Quotes This podcast covers the markup for Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes; CSS is a whole other issue which may be covered in a future podcast. Download Web Axe Episode 64 (Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes) News Update on the ADA (WebAIM) Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age Andrew Kirkpatrick's slides for presentation "Webmaniacs Talk on Flex Accessibility" Easier YouTube from Chris Heilmann Flash now can be indexed by Google, etc. Announcements Web accessibility consulting now offered by Dennis & Ross; contact them at webaxe [AT] gmail NOSPAM dot com The next Refresh Detroit meetup is Wednesday, July 30. Main Segment General Guidelines WCAG 1.0 Guideline 4. Clarify natural language usage WCAG 2.0 Guideline 3.1 Readable: Make text content readable and understandable Language in HTML tag <head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" /> Code Examples: Blockquote &lt... This podcast covers the markup for Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes; CSS is a whole other issue which may be covered in a future podcast. Download Web Axe Episode 64 (Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes) News Update on the ADA (WebAIM) Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age Andrew Kirkpatrick's slides for presentation "Webmaniacs Talk on Flex Accessibility" Easier YouTube from Chris Heilmann Flash now can be indexed by Google, etc. Announcements Web accessibility consulting now offered by Dennis & Ross; contact them at webaxe [AT] gmail NOSPAM dot com The next Refresh Detroit meetup is Wednesday, July 30. Main Segment General Guidelines WCAG 1.0 Guideline 4. Clarify natural language usage WCAG 2.0 Guideline 3.1 Readable: Make text content readable and understandable Language in HTML tag <head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" /> Code Examples: Blockquote <blockquote><p>Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</p><cite>Jane Doe</cite></blockquote> <blockquote cite="Jane Doe [or URL]"><p>Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</p></blockquote> Code Examples: Inline quotes <p>A customer for web accessibility consulting said <q>Dennis and Ross arehighly recommended for web design!</q>, and that was pleasing to my ears.</p> <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</q> As <cite>Jane Doe</cite> said, <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross arehighly recommended for web design!<q> Code Examples: Abbreviations & Acronym <acronym title="California" lang="en-us">CA</acronym><abbr title="California">Cali</abbr> Also, the abbr attribute can be used in table headers: <th scope="col" abbr="colors">colors selected currently</th> CSS + Aural Style Sheets acronym {speak : normal;}abbr.initialism {speak : spell-out;}abbr.truncation {speak : normal;} Language Codes List of language codes; the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989. Other Links Block Quotes and Pull Quotes: Examples and Good Practices Quotations: The BLOCKQUOTE and Q elements (W3C) This podcast covers the markup for Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes; CSS is a whole other issue which may be covered in a future podcast. Download Web Axe Episode 64 (Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes) News Update on the ADA (WebAIM) Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age Andrew Kirkpatrick's slides for presentation "Webmaniacs Talk on Flex Accessibility" Easier YouTube from Chris Heilmann Flash now can be indexed by Google, etc. Announcements Web accessibility consulting now offered by Dennis & Ross; contact them at webaxe [AT] gmail NOSPAM dot com The next Refresh Detroit meetup is Wednesday, July 30. Main Segment General Guidelines WCAG 1.0 Guideline 4. Clarify natural language usage WCAG 2.0 Guideline 3.1 Readable: Make text content readable and understandable Language in HTML tag <head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" /> Code Examples: Blockquote <blockquote><p>Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</p><cite>Jane Doe</cite></blockquote> <blockquote cite="Jane Doe [or URL]"><p>Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</p></blockquote> Code Examples: Inline quotes <p>A customer for web accessibility consulting said <q>Dennis and Ross arehighly recommended for web design!</q>, and that was pleasing to my ears.</p> <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</q> As <cite>Jane Doe</cite> said, <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross arehighly recommended for web design!<q> Code Examples: Abbreviations & Acronym <acronym title="California" lang="en-us">CA</acronym><abbr title="California">Cali</abbr> Also, the abbr attribute can be used in table headers: <th scope="col" abbr="colors">colors selected currently</th> CSS + Aural Style Sheets acronym {speak : normal;}abbr.initialism {speak : spell-out;}abbr.truncation {speak : normal;} Language Codes List of language codes; the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989. Other Links Block Quotes and Pull Quotes: Examples and Good Practices Quotations: The BLOCKQUOTE and Q elements (W3C) tag:odeo.com,2008-07-13,23075151 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:20:46 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, language, acronym, abbreviation http://odeo.com/episodes/24053391-Podcast-64-Language-Abbreviations-and-Quotes This podcast covers the markup for Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes; CSS is a whole other issue which may be covered in a future podcast. Download Web Axe Episode 64 (Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes) News Update on the ADA (WebAIM) Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age Andrew Kirkpatrick's slides for presentation "Webmaniacs Talk on Flex Accessibility" Easier YouTube from Chris Heilmann Flash now can be indexed by Google, etc. Announcements Web accessibility consulting now offered by Dennis & Ross; contact them at webaxe [AT] gmail NOSPAM dot com The next Refresh Detroit meetup is Wednesday, July 30. Main Segment General Guidelines WCAG 1.0 Guideline 4. Clarify natural language usage WCAG 2.0 Guideline 3.1 Readable: Make text content readable and understandable Language in HTML tag <head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" /> Code Examples: Blockquote &lt... This podcast covers the markup for Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes; CSS is a whole other issue which may be covered in a future podcast. Download Web Axe Episode 64 (Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes) News Update on the ADA (WebAIM) Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age Andrew Kirkpatrick's slides for presentation "Webmaniacs Talk on Flex Accessibility" Easier YouTube from Chris Heilmann Flash now can be indexed by Google, etc. Announcements Web accessibility consulting now offered by Dennis & Ross; contact them at webaxe [AT] gmail NOSPAM dot com The next Refresh Detroit meetup is Wednesday, July 30. Main Segment General Guidelines WCAG 1.0 Guideline 4. Clarify natural language usage WCAG 2.0 Guideline 3.1 Readable: Make text content readable and understandable Language in HTML tag <head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" /> Code Examples: Blockquote <blockquote><p>Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</p><cite>Jane Doe</cite></blockquote> <blockquote cite="Jane Doe [or URL]"><p>Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</p></blockquote> Code Examples: Inline quotes <p>A customer for web accessibility consulting said <q>Dennis and Ross arehighly recommended for web design!</q>, and that was pleasing to my ears.</p> <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</q> As <cite>Jane Doe</cite> said, <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross arehighly recommended for web design!<q> Code Examples: Abbreviations & Acronym <acronym title="California" lang="en-us">CA</acronym><abbr title="California">Cali</abbr> Also, the abbr attribute can be used in table headers: <th scope="col" abbr="colors">colors selected currently</th> CSS + Aural Style Sheets acronym {speak : normal;}abbr.initialism {speak : spell-out;}abbr.truncation {speak : normal;} Language Codes List of language codes; the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989. Other Links Block Quotes and Pull Quotes: Examples and Good Practices Quotations: The BLOCKQUOTE and Q elements (W3C) This podcast covers the markup for Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes; CSS is a whole other issue which may be covered in a future podcast. Download Web Axe Episode 64 (Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes) News Update on the ADA (WebAIM) Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age Andrew Kirkpatrick's slides for presentation "Webmaniacs Talk on Flex Accessibility" Easier YouTube from Chris Heilmann Flash now can be indexed by Google, etc. Announcements Web accessibility consulting now offered by Dennis & Ross; contact them at webaxe [AT] gmail NOSPAM dot com The next Refresh Detroit meetup is Wednesday, July 30. Main Segment General Guidelines WCAG 1.0 Guideline 4. Clarify natural language usage WCAG 2.0 Guideline 3.1 Readable: Make text content readable and understandable Language in HTML tag <head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" /> Code Examples: Blockquote <blockquote><p>Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</p><cite>Jane Doe</cite></blockquote> <blockquote cite="Jane Doe [or URL]"><p>Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</p></blockquote> Code Examples: Inline quotes <p>A customer for web accessibility consulting said <q>Dennis and Ross arehighly recommended for web design!</q>, and that was pleasing to my ears.</p> <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross are highly recommended for web design!</q> As <cite>Jane Doe</cite> said, <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross arehighly recommended for web design!<q> Code Examples: Abbreviations & Acronym <acronym title="California" lang="en-us">CA</acronym><abbr title="California">Cali</abbr> Also, the abbr attribute can be used in table headers: <th scope="col" abbr="colors">colors selected currently</th> CSS + Aural Style Sheets acronym {speak : normal;}abbr.initialism {speak : spell-out;}abbr.truncation {speak : normal;} Language Codes List of language codes; the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989. Other Links Block Quotes and Pull Quotes: Examples and Good Practices Quotations: The BLOCKQUOTE and Q elements (W3C) tag:odeo.com,2008-07-13,24053391 Sun, 13 Jul 2008 08:20:46 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, language, acronym, abbreviation http://odeo.com/episodes/23074353-Podcast-64-Language-Abbreviations-and-Quotes This podcast covers the markup for Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes; CSS is a whole other issue which may be covered in a future podcast. Download Web Axe Episode 64 (Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes) News Update on the ADA (WebAIM) Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age Andrew Kirkpatrick's slides for presentation "Webmaniacs Talk on Flex Accessibility" Easier YouTube from Chris Heilmann Flash now can be indexed by Google, etc. Announcements Web accessibility consulting now offered by Dennis & Ross; contact them at webaxe [AT] gmail NOSPAM dot com The next Refresh Detroit meetup is Wednesday, July 30. Main Segment General Guidelines WCAG 1.0 Guideline 4. Clarify natural language usage WCAG 2.0 Guideline 3.1 Readable: Make text content readable and understandable Language in HTML tag <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-us" la... This podcast covers the markup for Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes; CSS is a whole other issue which may be covered in a future podcast. Download Web Axe Episode 64 (Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes) News Update on the ADA (WebAIM) Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age Andrew Kirkpatrick's slides for presentation "Webmaniacs Talk on Flex Accessibility" Easier YouTube from Chris Heilmann Flash now can be indexed by Google, etc. Announcements Web accessibility consulting now offered by Dennis & Ross; contact them at webaxe [AT] gmail NOSPAM dot com The next Refresh Detroit meetup is Wednesday, July 30. Main Segment General Guidelines WCAG 1.0 Guideline 4. Clarify natural language usage WCAG 2.0 Guideline 3.1 Readable: Make text content readable and understandable Language in HTML tag <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-us" lang="en-us"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" /> Code Examples: Blockquote <blockquote><p>Dennis and Ross are very professional and highly recommended for web design!</p><cite>Jane Doe</cite></blockquote> <blockquote cite="Jane Doe [or URL]"><p>Dennis and Ross are very professional and highly recommended for web design!</p></blockquote> Code Examples: Inline quotes <p>A fabricated customer for web accessibility consulting said <q>Dennis and Ross are very professional and highly recommended for web design!</q>, and that was pleasing to my ears.</p> <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross are very professional and highly recommended for web design!</q> As <cite>Jane Doe</cite> said, <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross are very professional and highly recommended for web design!<q> Code Examples: Abbreviations & Acronym <acronym title="California" lang="en-us">CA</acronym><abbr title="California">Cali</abbr> Also, the abbr attribute can be used in table headers: <th scope="col" abbr="colors">colors selected currently</th> CSS + Aural Style Sheets acronym {speak : normal;}abbr.initialism {speak : spell-out;}abbr.truncation {speak : normal;} Language Codes List of language codes; the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989. Other Links Block Quotes and Pull Quotes: Examples and Good Practices Quotations: The BLOCKQUOTE and Q elements (W3C) This podcast covers the markup for Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes; CSS is a whole other issue which may be covered in a future podcast. Download Web Axe Episode 64 (Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes) News Update on the ADA (WebAIM) Web Accessibility. Life In the Post-Guideline Age Andrew Kirkpatrick's slides for presentation "Webmaniacs Talk on Flex Accessibility" Easier YouTube from Chris Heilmann Flash now can be indexed by Google, etc. Announcements Web accessibility consulting now offered by Dennis & Ross; contact them at webaxe [AT] gmail NOSPAM dot com The next Refresh Detroit meetup is Wednesday, July 30. Main Segment General Guidelines WCAG 1.0 Guideline 4. Clarify natural language usage WCAG 2.0 Guideline 3.1 Readable: Make text content readable and understandable Language in HTML tag <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-us" lang="en-us"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /><meta http-equiv="content-language" content="en-us" /> Code Examples: Blockquote <blockquote><p>Dennis and Ross are very professional and highly recommended for web design!</p><cite>Jane Doe</cite></blockquote> <blockquote cite="Jane Doe [or URL]"><p>Dennis and Ross are very professional and highly recommended for web design!</p></blockquote> Code Examples: Inline quotes <p>A fabricated customer for web accessibility consulting said <q>Dennis and Ross are very professional and highly recommended for web design!</q>, and that was pleasing to my ears.</p> <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross are very professional and highly recommended for web design!</q> As <cite>Jane Doe</cite> said, <q lang="en-us">Dennis and Ross are very professional and highly recommended for web design!<q> Code Examples: Abbreviations & Acronym <acronym title="California" lang="en-us">CA</acronym><abbr title="California">Cali</abbr> Also, the abbr attribute can be used in table headers: <th scope="col" abbr="colors">colors selected currently</th> CSS + Aural Style Sheets acronym {speak : normal;}abbr.initialism {speak : spell-out;}abbr.truncation {speak : normal;} Language Codes List of language codes; the Representation of the Names of Languages. From ISO 639, revised 1989. Other Links Block Quotes and Pull Quotes: Examples and Good Practices Quotations: The BLOCKQUOTE and Q elements (W3C) tag:odeo.com,2008-07-12,23074353 Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:56:13 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, language, acronym, abbreviation http://odeo.com/episodes/22444150-Podcast-63-Reviewing-Accessible-Ajax-Recommendations In Webcredible's article AJAX accessibility for websites, a list of recommendations is presented for creating accessible Ajax web pages. In this podcast, Dennis and Ross discuss the accessibility issues and benefits of Ajax, and the recommendations from Webcredible which are: Inform users early in the page that dynamic updates will occur Highlight the areas that have been updated Don't change the focus Offer the option to disable automatic updates Ensure the site works if JavaScript isn't enabled Download Web Axe Episode 63 (Reviewing Accessible Ajax Recommendations) News & Events Refresh Detroit meeting April 23 (demo night) Accessible Online Learning Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards Guide to semantic use of HTML elements / Why use semantic XHTML Everything I know about accessibility I learned from Star Wars (MP3) (Derek Featherstone at SXSW) In Webcredible's article AJAX accessibility for websites, a list of recommendations is presented for creating accessible Ajax web pages. In this podcast, Dennis and Ross discuss the accessibility issues and benefits of Ajax, and the recommendations from Webcredible which are: Inform users early in the page that dynamic updates will occur Highlight the areas that have been updated Don't change the focus Offer the option to disable automatic updates Ensure the site works if JavaScript isn't enabled Download Web Axe Episode 63 (Reviewing Accessible Ajax Recommendations) News & Events Refresh Detroit meeting April 23 (demo night) Accessible Online Learning Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards Guide to semantic use of HTML elements / Why use semantic XHTML Everything I know about accessibility I learned from Star Wars (MP3) (Derek Featherstone at SXSW) In Webcredible's article AJAX accessibility for websites, a list of recommendations is presented for creating accessible Ajax web pages. In this podcast, Dennis and Ross discuss the accessibility issues and benefits of Ajax, and the recommendations from Webcredible which are: Inform users early in the page that dynamic updates will occur Highlight the areas that have been updated Don't change the focus Offer the option to disable automatic updates Ensure the site works if JavaScript isn't enabled Download Web Axe Episode 63 (Reviewing Accessible Ajax Recommendations) News & Events Refresh Detroit meeting April 23 (demo night) Accessible Online Learning Accessible Data Visualization with Web Standards Guide to semantic use of HTML elements / Why use semantic XHTML Everything I know about accessibility I learned from Star Wars (MP3) (Derek Featherstone at SXSW) tag:odeo.com,2008-04-21,22444150 Mon, 21 Apr 2008 11:55:04 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, Ajax http://odeo.com/episodes/22222100-Podcast-62-Web-Accessibility-News Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of recent web accessibility news and events. Download Web Axe Episode 62 (Web Accessibility News) HTML 5 and Accessibility post — comment from Laura Carlson of Web Standards Group with great info and links. WAVE toolbar and blog available Reference Card for Accessible PDF Creation from Word from the Adobe Accessibility blog by Andrew Kirkpatrick (Download Reference Card) For Review: UAAG 2.0 First Public Working Draft Joe Clark has released the (final?) update to the WCAG Samurai’s errata. Also see The WCAG Samurai Errata are now available. Moving WCAG 2.0 to the next stage (W3C March 2008 Update) Radio New Zealand Interview of Shawn Henry, February 2008 Are Lists Becoming the New Tables? IE8 announces change in "version targeting": Surprise of the year: IE8 will use Standards mode by default Microsoft Backflips on Browser Version Targeting CSS Globe, 11 Good Accessibility Tips SXSW panels of note: Accessible Rich Media (Sharron Rush) Targeting Your... Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of recent web accessibility news and events. Download Web Axe Episode 62 (Web Accessibility News) HTML 5 and Accessibility post — comment from Laura Carlson of Web Standards Group with great info and links. WAVE toolbar and blog available Reference Card for Accessible PDF Creation from Word from the Adobe Accessibility blog by Andrew Kirkpatrick (Download Reference Card) For Review: UAAG 2.0 First Public Working Draft Joe Clark has released the (final?) update to the WCAG Samurai’s errata. Also see The WCAG Samurai Errata are now available. Moving WCAG 2.0 to the next stage (W3C March 2008 Update) Radio New Zealand Interview of Shawn Henry, February 2008 Are Lists Becoming the New Tables? IE8 announces change in "version targeting": Surprise of the year: IE8 will use Standards mode by default Microsoft Backflips on Browser Version Targeting CSS Globe, 11 Good Accessibility Tips SXSW panels of note: Accessible Rich Media (Sharron Rush) Targeting Your Web Site: Accessibility Litigation Update (Mike Wasylik) Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly (Shawn Henry) Dell's Blog about SXSW Accessibility topics The Digital Bus - a blog about digital marketing Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of recent web accessibility news and events. Download Web Axe Episode 62 (Web Accessibility News) HTML 5 and Accessibility post — comment from Laura Carlson of Web Standards Group with great info and links. WAVE toolbar and blog available Reference Card for Accessible PDF Creation from Word from the Adobe Accessibility blog by Andrew Kirkpatrick (Download Reference Card) For Review: UAAG 2.0 First Public Working Draft Joe Clark has released the (final?) update to the WCAG Samurai’s errata. Also see The WCAG Samurai Errata are now available. Moving WCAG 2.0 to the next stage (W3C March 2008 Update) Radio New Zealand Interview of Shawn Henry, February 2008 Are Lists Becoming the New Tables? IE8 announces change in "version targeting": Surprise of the year: IE8 will use Standards mode by default Microsoft Backflips on Browser Version Targeting CSS Globe, 11 Good Accessibility Tips SXSW panels of note: Accessible Rich Media (Sharron Rush) Targeting Your Web Site: Accessibility Litigation Update (Mike Wasylik) Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly (Shawn Henry) Dell's Blog about SXSW Accessibility topics The Digital Bus - a blog about digital marketing tag:odeo.com,2008-04-01,22222100 Tue, 01 Apr 2008 14:04:01 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, wcag, PDF, standards, webaim http://odeo.com/episodes/22191763-Podcast-62-Web-Accessibility-News Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of recent web accessibility news and events including. Download Web Axe Episode 62 (Web Accessibility News) HTML 5 and Accessibility post — comment from Laura Carlson of Web Standards Group with great info and links. WAVE toolbar and blog available Reference Card for Accessible PDF Creation from Word from the Adobe Accessibility blog by Andrew Kirkpatrick (Download Reference Card) For Review: UAAG 2.0 First Public Working Draft Joe Clark has released the (final?) update to the WCAG Samurai’s errata. Also see The WCAG Samurai Errata are now available. Moving WCAG 2.0 to the next stage (W3C March 2008 Update) Radio New Zealand Interview of Shawn Henry, February 2008 Are Lists Becoming the New Tables? IE8 announces change in "version targeting": Surprise of the year: IE8 will use Standards mode by default Microsoft Backflips on Browser Version Targeting CSS Globe, 11 Good Accessibility Tips SXSW panels of note: Accessible Rich Media (Sharron Rush) Targ... Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of recent web accessibility news and events including. Download Web Axe Episode 62 (Web Accessibility News) HTML 5 and Accessibility post — comment from Laura Carlson of Web Standards Group with great info and links. WAVE toolbar and blog available Reference Card for Accessible PDF Creation from Word from the Adobe Accessibility blog by Andrew Kirkpatrick (Download Reference Card) For Review: UAAG 2.0 First Public Working Draft Joe Clark has released the (final?) update to the WCAG Samurai’s errata. Also see The WCAG Samurai Errata are now available. Moving WCAG 2.0 to the next stage (W3C March 2008 Update) Radio New Zealand Interview of Shawn Henry, February 2008 Are Lists Becoming the New Tables? IE8 announces change in "version targeting": Surprise of the year: IE8 will use Standards mode by default Microsoft Backflips on Browser Version Targeting CSS Globe, 11 Good Accessibility Tips SXSW panels of note: Accessible Rich Media (Sharron Rush) Targeting Your Web Site: Accessibility Litigation Update (Mike Wasylik) Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly (Shawn Henry) Dell's Blog about SXSW Accessibility topics The Digital Bus - a blog about digital marketing Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of recent web accessibility news and events including. Download Web Axe Episode 62 (Web Accessibility News) HTML 5 and Accessibility post — comment from Laura Carlson of Web Standards Group with great info and links. WAVE toolbar and blog available Reference Card for Accessible PDF Creation from Word from the Adobe Accessibility blog by Andrew Kirkpatrick (Download Reference Card) For Review: UAAG 2.0 First Public Working Draft Joe Clark has released the (final?) update to the WCAG Samurai’s errata. Also see The WCAG Samurai Errata are now available. Moving WCAG 2.0 to the next stage (W3C March 2008 Update) Radio New Zealand Interview of Shawn Henry, February 2008 Are Lists Becoming the New Tables? IE8 announces change in "version targeting": Surprise of the year: IE8 will use Standards mode by default Microsoft Backflips on Browser Version Targeting CSS Globe, 11 Good Accessibility Tips SXSW panels of note: Accessible Rich Media (Sharron Rush) Targeting Your Web Site: Accessibility Litigation Update (Mike Wasylik) Catching up with Accessibility: The Basics Quickly (Shawn Henry) Dell's Blog about SXSW Accessibility topics The Digital Bus - a blog about digital marketing tag:odeo.com,2008-03-22,22191763 Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:56:00 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, wcag, PDF, standards, webaim http://odeo.com/episodes/22107537-Podcast-61-Accessibility-Statements Download Web Axe Episode 61 (Accessibility Statements) News Donate to Web Axe! Button in sidebar. Looking to purchase Dragon Naturally Speaking Ross merged his company, moved offices, ingenexdigital.com Refresh Detroit/MIUPA meeting on Jan 30 DOCTYPE broken (A List Apart) Learning from Screen Readers (WebAIM) February Milestone On Road To Web Access Guidelines Introducing WAVE 4.0 Listener's Comments Free web site accessibility checkers Accessible WordPress templates; try Mike Cherim's Seabeast WordPress template Main Segment Topics What is an accessibility statement? Should an accessibility statement be on my web site? Where should I provide links to the accessibility statement? What should be included in the accessibility statement? A brief description of the policy. How to report failures on the site. Details of the functions built-in to the site. Information on browser options. The standards used in the building of the site. The verification processes used. Links to further info... Download Web Axe Episode 61 (Accessibility Statements) News Donate to Web Axe! Button in sidebar. Looking to purchase Dragon Naturally Speaking Ross merged his company, moved offices, ingenexdigital.com Refresh Detroit/MIUPA meeting on Jan 30 DOCTYPE broken (A List Apart) Learning from Screen Readers (WebAIM) February Milestone On Road To Web Access Guidelines Introducing WAVE 4.0 Listener's Comments Free web site accessibility checkers Accessible WordPress templates; try Mike Cherim's Seabeast WordPress template Main Segment Topics What is an accessibility statement? Should an accessibility statement be on my web site? Where should I provide links to the accessibility statement? What should be included in the accessibility statement? A brief description of the policy. How to report failures on the site. Details of the functions built-in to the site. Information on browser options. The standards used in the building of the site. The verification processes used. Links to further information. Related Links Accessibility Statement - What it should include Making the most of the footer Writing a good accessibility statement.php Just Say No Download Web Axe Episode 61 (Accessibility Statements) News Donate to Web Axe! Button in sidebar. Looking to purchase Dragon Naturally Speaking Ross merged his company, moved offices, ingenexdigital.com Refresh Detroit/MIUPA meeting on Jan 30 DOCTYPE broken (A List Apart) Learning from Screen Readers (WebAIM) February Milestone On Road To Web Access Guidelines Introducing WAVE 4.0 Listener's Comments Free web site accessibility checkers Accessible WordPress templates; try Mike Cherim's Seabeast WordPress template Main Segment Topics What is an accessibility statement? Should an accessibility statement be on my web site? Where should I provide links to the accessibility statement? What should be included in the accessibility statement? A brief description of the policy. How to report failures on the site. Details of the functions built-in to the site. Information on browser options. The standards used in the building of the site. The verification processes used. Links to further information. Related Links Accessibility Statement - What it should include Making the most of the footer Writing a good accessibility statement.php Just Say No tag:odeo.com,2008-01-27,22107537 Sun, 27 Jan 2008 15:36:57 -0800 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast http://odeo.com/episodes/22034337-Podcast-60-Web-Axe-2007-Year-in-Review Happy New Year! Dennis highlights and discusses numerous podcasts and news/blog events about web accessibility in the last year. Download Web Axe Episode 60 (2007 Year in Review) Podcast #56: Web Axe 2-Year Anniversary! Podcast #55: WCAG Samurai Podcast #52: REL Attribute Podcast #51: Option Groups (OptGroup) Podcast #50: Analysis of WCAG 2.0 Podcast #47: Alternative Text in Detail Podcast #45: Accessible popup windows Podcast #40: About CAPTCHA and Accessibility News Selecting an Accessible CMS Web Axe Named Top 5 Podcasts! Avoiding Extreme Accessibility For Review: Updated WCAG 2.0 Documents Lawyer warns that PDFs fail on accessibility (UK) Petition Asks Yahoo to Fix Their CAPTCHA Court rules against Target on website accessibility lawsuit Happy New Year! Dennis highlights and discusses numerous podcasts and news/blog events about web accessibility in the last year. Download Web Axe Episode 60 (2007 Year in Review) Podcast #56: Web Axe 2-Year Anniversary! Podcast #55: WCAG Samurai Podcast #52: REL Attribute Podcast #51: Option Groups (OptGroup) Podcast #50: Analysis of WCAG 2.0 Podcast #47: Alternative Text in Detail Podcast #45: Accessible popup windows Podcast #40: About CAPTCHA and Accessibility News Selecting an Accessible CMS Web Axe Named Top 5 Podcasts! Avoiding Extreme Accessibility For Review: Updated WCAG 2.0 Documents Lawyer warns that PDFs fail on accessibility (UK) Petition Asks Yahoo to Fix Their CAPTCHA Court rules against Target on website accessibility lawsuit Happy New Year! Dennis highlights and discusses numerous podcasts and news/blog events about web accessibility in the last year. Download Web Axe Episode 60 (2007 Year in Review) Podcast #56: Web Axe 2-Year Anniversary! Podcast #55: WCAG Samurai Podcast #52: REL Attribute Podcast #51: Option Groups (OptGroup) Podcast #50: Analysis of WCAG 2.0 Podcast #47: Alternative Text in Detail Podcast #45: Accessible popup windows Podcast #40: About CAPTCHA and Accessibility News Selecting an Accessible CMS Web Axe Named Top 5 Podcasts! Avoiding Extreme Accessibility For Review: Updated WCAG 2.0 Documents Lawyer warns that PDFs fail on accessibility (UK) Petition Asks Yahoo to Fix Their CAPTCHA Court rules against Target on website accessibility lawsuit tag:odeo.com,2007-12-30,22034337 Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:39:50 -0800 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast http://odeo.com/episodes/22034343-Podcast-59-Jeffrey-Frey-on-Accessible-Podcasts Dennis speaks with Jeffrey Frey and discusses accessible podcasting, guidelines on audio/video web accessibility, and Jeff's role at Rice University. Jeff is the Web Services Manager for Enterprise Applications in the Information Technology Department at Rice University. He provides technology solutions for faculty, staff, and students on campus as well as teaches new technology courses at the School of Continuing Studies. He is available for podcasting consulting, is involved in the creation of podcasts for businesses and non-profits, and has owned a technical consulting company and an audio/video recording studio. Download Web Axe Episode 59 (Jeffrey Frey on Accessible Podcasts) Links from Jeffrey Frey’s Blog Section 508 Compliant Podcasting and Undue Burden Section 508 Compliant Podcasting Podcast Captioning Accessible Podcasts Transcription and other related services Connecticut Secretary Noble Transcription Services CastingWords enablr Dragon NaturallySpeaking From Tom BrinckLi... Dennis speaks with Jeffrey Frey and discusses accessible podcasting, guidelines on audio/video web accessibility, and Jeff's role at Rice University. Jeff is the Web Services Manager for Enterprise Applications in the Information Technology Department at Rice University. He provides technology solutions for faculty, staff, and students on campus as well as teaches new technology courses at the School of Continuing Studies. He is available for podcasting consulting, is involved in the creation of podcasts for businesses and non-profits, and has owned a technical consulting company and an audio/video recording studio. Download Web Axe Episode 59 (Jeffrey Frey on Accessible Podcasts) Links from Jeffrey Frey’s Blog Section 508 Compliant Podcasting and Undue Burden Section 508 Compliant Podcasting Podcast Captioning Accessible Podcasts Transcription and other related services Connecticut Secretary Noble Transcription Services CastingWords enablr Dragon NaturallySpeaking From Tom BrinckLike myself, Tom is from Michigan but now works and lives in the Bay Area in California. Design Critique podcast Book: Cost Justifying Usability Richter scale Dennis speaks with Jeffrey Frey and discusses accessible podcasting, guidelines on audio/video web accessibility, and Jeff's role at Rice University. Jeff is the Web Services Manager for Enterprise Applications in the Information Technology Department at Rice University. He provides technology solutions for faculty, staff, and students on campus as well as teaches new technology courses at the School of Continuing Studies. He is available for podcasting consulting, is involved in the creation of podcasts for businesses and non-profits, and has owned a technical consulting company and an audio/video recording studio. Download Web Axe Episode 59 (Jeffrey Frey on Accessible Podcasts) Links from Jeffrey Frey’s Blog Section 508 Compliant Podcasting and Undue Burden Section 508 Compliant Podcasting Podcast Captioning Accessible Podcasts Transcription and other related services Connecticut Secretary Noble Transcription Services CastingWords enablr Dragon NaturallySpeaking From Tom BrinckLike myself, Tom is from Michigan but now works and lives in the Bay Area in California. Design Critique podcast Book: Cost Justifying Usability Richter scale tag:odeo.com,2007-11-25,22034343 Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:07:05 -0800 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, audio http://odeo.com/episodes/22034349-Podcast-58-Aural-Style-Sheets Dennis and Ross explain aural style sheets, a nifty part of CSS2. Download Web Axe Episode 58 (Aural Style Sheets) News & Announcements ArbCamp - Great Success Ross now a Mac Person San Jose earthquake 5.6 Web Design and Marketing Solutions - Looking for reviewers (graphicpush) Andrew Kirkpatrick - Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance Jared Smith of WebAIM helping revise Section 508 Screen Readers sometime ignore display:none Email Spambot Buster What are Aural Style Sheets? A way of controlling speech synthesis and auditory icons with CSS2, usually through a screen reader. H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 {voice-family: paul;stress: 20;richness: 90;cue-before: url("ping.au")} Supported by: Emacspeak, Fonix SpeakThis, and the Opera Browser Benefits More control over how screen readers will render your documents Also beneficial for those who want your content in a mobile manor (on the road, exercising, almost podcast-esk) Near future, more devices may access internet that you may want r... Dennis and Ross explain aural style sheets, a nifty part of CSS2. Download Web Axe Episode 58 (Aural Style Sheets) News & Announcements ArbCamp - Great Success Ross now a Mac Person San Jose earthquake 5.6 Web Design and Marketing Solutions - Looking for reviewers (graphicpush) Andrew Kirkpatrick - Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance Jared Smith of WebAIM helping revise Section 508 Screen Readers sometime ignore display:none Email Spambot Buster What are Aural Style Sheets? A way of controlling speech synthesis and auditory icons with CSS2, usually through a screen reader. H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 {voice-family: paul;stress: 20;richness: 90;cue-before: url("ping.au")} Supported by: Emacspeak, Fonix SpeakThis, and the Opera Browser Benefits More control over how screen readers will render your documents Also beneficial for those who want your content in a mobile manor (on the road, exercising, almost podcast-esk) Near future, more devices may access internet that you may want read, such as car Example: Speak-numeral element digits: a string of numbers is spoken as a whole number (123 = one hundred twenty-three) continuous: numbers in a string are read successively (123 = one two three) Elements volume speak pause cure play-during spacial elements (ways to have two voices appear from different areas) voice character speech rate voice family pitch pitch-range stress richness speak-punctuation speak-numeral Links Aural Style Sheets specification (W3C) Can You Hear Me Now? (Accessites.org) CSS2 Aural Reference (W3Schools) Dennis and Ross explain aural style sheets, a nifty part of CSS2. Download Web Axe Episode 58 (Aural Style Sheets) News & Announcements ArbCamp - Great Success Ross now a Mac Person San Jose earthquake 5.6 Web Design and Marketing Solutions - Looking for reviewers (graphicpush) Andrew Kirkpatrick - Web Standards and Regulatory Compliance Jared Smith of WebAIM helping revise Section 508 Screen Readers sometime ignore display:none Email Spambot Buster What are Aural Style Sheets? A way of controlling speech synthesis and auditory icons with CSS2, usually through a screen reader. H1, H2, H3, H4, H5, H6 {voice-family: paul;stress: 20;richness: 90;cue-before: url("ping.au")} Supported by: Emacspeak, Fonix SpeakThis, and the Opera Browser Benefits More control over how screen readers will render your documents Also beneficial for those who want your content in a mobile manor (on the road, exercising, almost podcast-esk) Near future, more devices may access internet that you may want read, such as car Example: Speak-numeral element digits: a string of numbers is spoken as a whole number (123 = one hundred twenty-three) continuous: numbers in a string are read successively (123 = one two three) Elements volume speak pause cure play-during spacial elements (ways to have two voices appear from different areas) voice character speech rate voice family pitch pitch-range stress richness speak-punctuation speak-numeral Links Aural Style Sheets specification (W3C) Can You Hear Me Now? (Accessites.org) CSS2 Aural Reference (W3Schools) tag:odeo.com,2007-11-12,22034349 Mon, 12 Nov 2007 08:31:23 -0800 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog audio, screenreader http://odeo.com/episodes/22034357-Podcast-57-AJAX-and-Accessibility-Part-2 Previously, Dennis and Guest Mark McKay began the discussion on nearly taboo subject of AJAX and web accessibility in Podcast #49: AJAX and Accessibility. Now in Part 2, Dennis and Ross discuss the problems and solutions in greater detail. Download Web Axe Episode 57 (AJAX and Accessibility, Part 2) The Problems & Solutions Notifying screen readers updated content For JavaScript disabled browsers, use Hijax and progressive enhancement The dreaded alternative page The future? AJAX Links Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax The Hows and Whys of Degradable Ajax How to: Get Google and AJAX to Play Nice Book: Bulletproof AJAX by Jeremy Keith AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? Making AJAX work with Screen Readers News NFB vs Target All Flash, No Standards (GraphicPush.com) Mentioned, 456 Berea St Web Form Design Announcements Web Axe 2-Year episode thank-yous Attended An Event Apart, SF 07 Dennis got a motorcycle Previously, Dennis and Guest Mark McKay began the discussion on nearly taboo subject of AJAX and web accessibility in Podcast #49: AJAX and Accessibility. Now in Part 2, Dennis and Ross discuss the problems and solutions in greater detail. Download Web Axe Episode 57 (AJAX and Accessibility, Part 2) The Problems & Solutions Notifying screen readers updated content For JavaScript disabled browsers, use Hijax and progressive enhancement The dreaded alternative page The future? AJAX Links Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax The Hows and Whys of Degradable Ajax How to: Get Google and AJAX to Play Nice Book: Bulletproof AJAX by Jeremy Keith AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? Making AJAX work with Screen Readers News NFB vs Target All Flash, No Standards (GraphicPush.com) Mentioned, 456 Berea St Web Form Design Announcements Web Axe 2-Year episode thank-yous Attended An Event Apart, SF 07 Dennis got a motorcycle Previously, Dennis and Guest Mark McKay began the discussion on nearly taboo subject of AJAX and web accessibility in Podcast #49: AJAX and Accessibility. Now in Part 2, Dennis and Ross discuss the problems and solutions in greater detail. Download Web Axe Episode 57 (AJAX and Accessibility, Part 2) The Problems & Solutions Notifying screen readers updated content For JavaScript disabled browsers, use Hijax and progressive enhancement The dreaded alternative page The future? AJAX Links Hijax: Progressive Enhancement with Ajax The Hows and Whys of Degradable Ajax How to: Get Google and AJAX to Play Nice Book: Bulletproof AJAX by Jeremy Keith AJAX and Screenreaders: When Can it Work? Making AJAX work with Screen Readers News NFB vs Target All Flash, No Standards (GraphicPush.com) Mentioned, 456 Berea St Web Form Design Announcements Web Axe 2-Year episode thank-yous Attended An Event Apart, SF 07 Dennis got a motorcycle tag:odeo.com,2007-11-11,22034357 Sun, 11 Nov 2007 11:11:53 -0800 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, Ajax, screenreader http://odeo.com/episodes/16923673-Podcast-55-WCAG-Samurai tag:odeo.com,2007-09-24,16923673 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:45:27 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog http://odeo.com/episodes/22034376-Podcast-55-WCAG-Samurai The WCAG Samurai is an "independent group of developers convened in 2006" and headed up by Joe Clark, accessibility guru. In this podcast, Dennis and Ross discuss the WCAG Samurai's errata to the W3C's WCAG 1.0 web accessibility guidelines. This includes: what it is and if we should use it discussing the 12 main points which WCAG 1.0 Priority 3 guidelines to ignore Download Web Axe Episode 55 (WCAG Samurai) The WCAG 1 + Samurai Guidelines Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content Don’t rely on colour alone Use markup and stylesheets and do so properly Clarify natural-language usage Create tables that transform gracefully Ensure that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully Ensure user control of time-sensitive content changes - Design for device-independence Use interim solutions Use W3C technologies and guidelines Provide context and orientation information Related Links Introduction to WCAG Samurai Errata WCAG Samurai Errata for WCAG 1.0 WCAG Samu... The WCAG Samurai is an "independent group of developers convened in 2006" and headed up by Joe Clark, accessibility guru. In this podcast, Dennis and Ross discuss the WCAG Samurai's errata to the W3C's WCAG 1.0 web accessibility guidelines. This includes: what it is and if we should use it discussing the 12 main points which WCAG 1.0 Priority 3 guidelines to ignore Download Web Axe Episode 55 (WCAG Samurai) The WCAG 1 + Samurai Guidelines Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content Don’t rely on colour alone Use markup and stylesheets and do so properly Clarify natural-language usage Create tables that transform gracefully Ensure that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully Ensure user control of time-sensitive content changes - Design for device-independence Use interim solutions Use W3C technologies and guidelines Provide context and orientation information Related Links Introduction to WCAG Samurai Errata WCAG Samurai Errata for WCAG 1.0 WCAG Samurai Peer Review On the WCAG Samurai errata - Bruce Lawson News JAWS 9.0 with AJAX Support? SpokenText developing Firefox add-on/extension can now share recordings donate using PayPal Why your employer should care about web accessibility The WCAG Samurai is an "independent group of developers convened in 2006" and headed up by Joe Clark, accessibility guru. In this podcast, Dennis and Ross discuss the WCAG Samurai's errata to the W3C's WCAG 1.0 web accessibility guidelines. This includes: what it is and if we should use it discussing the 12 main points which WCAG 1.0 Priority 3 guidelines to ignore Download Web Axe Episode 55 (WCAG Samurai) The WCAG 1 + Samurai Guidelines Provide equivalent alternatives to auditory and visual content Don’t rely on colour alone Use markup and stylesheets and do so properly Clarify natural-language usage Create tables that transform gracefully Ensure that pages featuring new technologies transform gracefully Ensure user control of time-sensitive content changes - Design for device-independence Use interim solutions Use W3C technologies and guidelines Provide context and orientation information Related Links Introduction to WCAG Samurai Errata WCAG Samurai Errata for WCAG 1.0 WCAG Samurai Peer Review On the WCAG Samurai errata - Bruce Lawson News JAWS 9.0 with AJAX Support? SpokenText developing Firefox add-on/extension can now share recordings donate using PayPal Why your employer should care about web accessibility tag:odeo.com,2007-09-24,22034376 Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:45:27 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog podcast, guidelines, wcag http://odeo.com/episodes/16923683-Podcast-56-Web-Axe-2-Year-Anniversary tag:odeo.com,2007-09-23,16923683 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 17:43:01 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog http://odeo.com/episodes/22034374-Podcast-56-Web-Axe-2-Year-Anniversary So it's been two years since I started Web Axe. After a year, Ross Johnson joined in as co-host for most shows, which I think helped keep the dialog going and definitely give some fresh input. We did some big interviews over the last year, and had a couple of great guests Joe Dolson and Mark McKay. For a special feature, the following web experts were gracious enough to send me input on their thoughts about recent events and trends in the world of web accessibility: Mark McKay Joe Dolson Roger Johansson Patrick Lauke Jared Smith Ross Johnson Download Web Axe Episode 56 (2-year anniversary) Past Web Axe Interviews Christian Heilmann (Yahoo!) Mike Cherim (Green Beast) Patrick Lauke (University of Salford) Andrew Kirkpatrick (Adobe) Paul Boag (Boagworld) Jared Smith (WebAIM) News Links Click Here? No thanks. I have a Better Idea… Teach a Man to Fish (or How to Resize Text) Too much accessibility So it's been two years since I started Web Axe. After a year, Ross Johnson joined in as co-host for most shows, which I think helped keep the dialog going and definitely give some fresh input. We did some big interviews over the last year, and had a couple of great guests Joe Dolson and Mark McKay. For a special feature, the following web experts were gracious enough to send me input on their thoughts about recent events and trends in the world of web accessibility: Mark McKay Joe Dolson Roger Johansson Patrick Lauke Jared Smith Ross Johnson Download Web Axe Episode 56 (2-year anniversary) Past Web Axe Interviews Christian Heilmann (Yahoo!) Mike Cherim (Green Beast) Patrick Lauke (University of Salford) Andrew Kirkpatrick (Adobe) Paul Boag (Boagworld) Jared Smith (WebAIM) News Links Click Here? No thanks. I have a Better Idea… Teach a Man to Fish (or How to Resize Text) Too much accessibility So it's been two years since I started Web Axe. After a year, Ross Johnson joined in as co-host for most shows, which I think helped keep the dialog going and definitely give some fresh input. We did some big interviews over the last year, and had a couple of great guests Joe Dolson and Mark McKay. For a special feature, the following web experts were gracious enough to send me input on their thoughts about recent events and trends in the world of web accessibility: Mark McKay Joe Dolson Roger Johansson Patrick Lauke Jared Smith Ross Johnson Download Web Axe Episode 56 (2-year anniversary) Past Web Axe Interviews Christian Heilmann (Yahoo!) Mike Cherim (Green Beast) Patrick Lauke (University of Salford) Andrew Kirkpatrick (Adobe) Paul Boag (Boagworld) Jared Smith (WebAIM) News Links Click Here? No thanks. I have a Better Idea… Teach a Man to Fish (or How to Resize Text) Too much accessibility tag:odeo.com,2007-09-23,22034374 Sun, 23 Sep 2007 10:43:01 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog http://odeo.com/episodes/16923643-Podcast-54-The-Summary-Attribute tag:odeo.com,2007-08-22,16923643 Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:08:43 -0700 no Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog http://odeo.com/episodes/22034409-Podcast-54-The-Summary-Attribute By now most of us should be pretty familiar with creating an accessible data table--use a caption, TH for row and col headers, scope attribute, and the summary. In this podcast, Dennis talks about the least familiar of these techniques--the summary attribute of the table element. The summary attribute is WCAG Checkpoint 5.5 (Priority 3). Download Web Axe Episode 54 (The Summary Attribute) Examples of good summary text: The number of employees and the foundation year of companies in Orlando, Florida, in 1988. A warming trend has been observed in Cache Valley, with temperatures about 5 degrees above historical averages over the last two months. This table charts the number of cups of coffee consumed by each senator, the type of coffee (decaf or regular), and whether taken with sugar. Total required by pollution control standards as of January 1, 1971. Commercial category includes stores, insurance companies and banks. Sample Code (from 456bereastreet's Bring on the Tables): <table ... By now most of us should be pretty familiar with creating an accessible data table--use a caption, TH for row and col headers, scope attribute, and the summary. In this podcast, Dennis talks about the least familiar of these techniques--the summary attribute of the table element. The summary attribute is WCAG Checkpoint 5.5 (Priority 3). Download Web Axe Episode 54 (The Summary Attribute) Examples of good summary text: The number of employees and the foundation year of companies in Orlando, Florida, in 1988. A warming trend has been observed in Cache Valley, with temperatures about 5 degrees above historical averages over the last two months. This table charts the number of cups of coffee consumed by each senator, the type of coffee (decaf or regular), and whether taken with sugar. Total required by pollution control standards as of January 1, 1971. Commercial category includes stores, insurance companies and banks. Sample Code (from 456bereastreet's Bring on the Tables): <table summary="The number of employees and the foundation year of some imaginary companies."><caption>Table 1: Company data</caption><tr><th scope="col">Company</th><th scope="col">Employees</th><th scope="col">Founded</th></tr><tr><td scope="row">ACME Inc</td><td>1000</td><td>1947</td></tr><tr><td scope="row">XYZ Corp</td><td>2000</td><td>1973</td></tr></table> Links W3C Definition of Summary attribute: This attribute provides a summary of the table's purpose and structure for user agents rendering to non-visual media such as speech and Braille. W3C on Data Tables page 4 of Semantic (X)HTML Markup: Using Tables Appropriately WebAIM: Creating Accessible Tables WCAG Samurai News textTHaCAA TradingEye PHP By now most of us should be pretty familiar with creating an accessible data table--use a caption, TH for row and col headers, scope attribute, and the summary. In this podcast, Dennis talks about the least familiar of these techniques--the summary attribute of the table element. The summary attribute is WCAG Checkpoint 5.5 (Priority 3). Download Web Axe Episode 54 (The Summary Attribute) Examples of good summary text: The number of employees and the foundation year of companies in Orlando, Florida, in 1988. A warming trend has been observed in Cache Valley, with temperatures about 5 degrees above historical averages over the last two months. This table charts the number of cups of coffee consumed by each senator, the type of coffee (decaf or regular), and whether taken with sugar. Total required by pollution control standards as of January 1, 1971. Commercial category includes stores, insurance companies and banks. Sample Code (from 456bereastreet's Bring on the Tables): <table summary="The number of employees and the foundation year of some imaginary companies."><caption>Table 1: Company data</caption><tr><th scope="col">Company</th><th scope="col">Employees</th><th scope="col">Founded</th></tr><tr><td scope="row">ACME Inc</td><td>1000</td><td>1947</td></tr><tr><td scope="row">XYZ Corp</td><td>2000</td><td>1973</td></tr></table> Links W3C Definition of Summary attribute: This attribute provides a summary of the table's purpose and structure for user agents rendering to non-visual media such as speech and Braille. 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