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About Impairments and Assistive Technology

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Dennis explains some types of disabilites and different kinds of tools used to help access the web.

Download Web Axe Episode 25 (About Impairments and Assistive Technology)

[Transcript for Episode 25]

Disability Types:
Alternative Devices:

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Refresh06 Conference

I'm trying to make it to the Refresh06 Conference in Orlando, Florida this fall. Looks like a good one. Topics include web standards and web accessibility. Speakers include Andy Budd, Cameron Moll, and Paul Boag. November 16th - 18th, 2006; $349 per person.

Refresh Web Standards Conference

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Accessibility Toolbar for Opera

Monday, August 14, 2006

Presenting, for Opera users, the Web Accessibility Toolbar for Opera. The teams from Web Accessibility Tools Consortium, Vision Australia and The Paciello Group have developed for the Opera browser the useful toolbar that they built for Windows IE.

Web Accessibility Toolbar for Opera

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Tab Index - why and why not

Friday, August 04, 2006

WCAG Guidelines 9.4 (Priority 3) says to create a logical tab order through links, form controls, and objects. The "tabindex" attribute is great because it does exactly that -- it specifies the position of the current element in the tabbing order for the current document. But are they needed?

Download Web Axe Episode 24 (Tab Index -- Why)

[Transcript]

The basic code:
<INPUT tabindex="1" type="text" name="field1">
<INPUT tabindex="2" type="text" name="field2">
<INPUT tabindex="3" type="submit" name="submit">

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Dennis Lembree is the founder of web development company CheckEngine USA, which specializes in web usability, standards, and accessibility.

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