Last night, I participated in a group discussion on the current working draft of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2.0 with Jared Smith of WebAIM and the hosts of the WebAxe podcast, Dennis Lembree and Ross Johnson. Mike Cherim was also supposed to be involved, but technological difficulties prevented it, unfortunately. The new podcast from WebAxe is now posted, so give it a listen to hear what we think about the latest changes to WCAG 2.0.
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RadioShack’s Accessibility Initiative
From the American Foundation for the Blind, it appears that RadioShack is announcing some significant accessibility plans for the near future, including a major renovation of their website to accord with the WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) guidelines. The press release doesn’t contain a lot of detail, but there’s enough meat present to at least get an impression of RadioShack’s accessibility goals. There are two parts to the announcement: improvements to their point-of-sale hardware to protect private data of blind […]
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In May of 2006, after the release of WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines) 2 for public comments, Joe Clark published an article in A List Apart in which he damned the new guidelines to hell. At the same time, he announced the formation of an independent group to review WCAG 1 and author a set of errata (and extensions) to that document. The WCAG Samurai have now released their errata document for public review. They have also invited reviews from […]
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I’ve got a new article published at Accessites.org: “Improving Accessibility Through Typography.” In this article I talk about some of the complications of typography on the web and offer a few suggestions on how to deal with accessible typography. The main issue is the fact that good web text must be able to be modified by the user: and there are certain problems which can become serious issues if you make poor choices in how you handle your type. Hope […]
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The links between accessibility and search marketing are frequently explored: creating a universally accessible website has a number of significant benefits for search marketing. After all, many of the features which make a website accessible (using text instead of images, ensuring the ability of non-visual tools to fully access content, etc.) are also characteristics of a website which has been optimized for search. However, there’s a huge difference between search engine optimization and search engine friendly. What most accessible developers […]
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