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Podcast and blog on practical web design accessibility tips.

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Current Posts

Podcast #62: Web Accessibility News

Friday, March 21, 2008

Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of recent web accessibility news and events.

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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

Labels: pdf, podcast, standards, wcag, webaim

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HTML 5 and Accessibility

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

HTML 5 is under development, and I thought I'd point out some proposed changes that directly affect accessibility, namely, the removal of certain attributes:

• accesskey attribute on a, area, button, input, label, legend and textarea
• longdesc attribute on img and iframe
• target attribute on link
• summary attribute on table
• headers, axis and abbr attributes on td and th
• scope attribute on td

Key Links

• A Preview of HTML 5 (ALA)
• HTML 5 differences from HTML 4 (W3C)

Labels: standards

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