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WCAG 2.0 Published as Final Recommendation!

Friday, December 12, 2008

Yes, it's now official! At last. WCAG 2.0 has been officially published as a final Web Standard "W3C Recommendation" on December 11, 2008. For more, read the W3C blog announcement A New Era for Web Accessibility: WCAG 2.0 is Finalized.

Related Links:

• Press Release: W3C Web Standard Defines Accessibility for Next Generation Web
• Comments from Adobe: WCAG 2.0 is here at last!
• Comments from Joe Dolson: WCAG 2 Reaches Recommendation Status
• Comments from E-Access Blog

Labels: standards, wcag, wcag2

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Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs

Tuesday, December 09, 2008

Deborah Edwards-Onoro, a key member of Refresh Detroit, has posted an excellent article, Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs. It has even been highlighted in the Acrobatusers.com News on December 2.

Her ten detailed guidelines are:

1. Use a structured source document
2. Save/export document as tagged PDF
3. Add title, author, subject and keywords
4. Add bookmarks
5. Initial view
6. Specify the reading language
7. Correct the reading order
8. Use PDF Optimizer
9. Enable Adobe Reader features
10. Check accessibility

Labels: acrobat, pdf

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WAVE Translation Project

Saturday, December 06, 2008

In the blog post WAVE Translation Project Begins, our friends at WebAIM have announced the start of a project to translate their web accessibility toolbar WAVE into several languages beginning with Spanish.

You can help by doing one (or more!) of the following:

• Improve translation of the WAVE feedback.
• Improve the accuracy of WAVE rules.
• Improve the translation of the WAVE site and toolbar.
• Identify WAVE bugs and offer suggestions for improvement.
• Spread the word.
• Be ready for translation into other languages.

Labels: testing, toolbar, webaim

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Speaking Special Characters - A Test

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

In the post Test case: Speaking Special Characters from Access Matters, the author explains that proper markup for special characters is very important for screen reader users.

There are two excellent pages provides for testing special characters, for the character types UTF-8 and ISO-8859. Feedback is very valuable, so if you are able to test and leave a comment, that would be much appreciated.

We are interested in knowing how theses things are announced by as many screen readers as you folks can use. Please listen to either or both of the following test cases. Take notes on what you hear, and respond to this posting with your results.

For more information on marking up code for ideal aural interpretation, go to the Web Axe Podcast #58: Aural Style Sheets.

Labels: audio, screenreader

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Web Axe was nominated for "Podcast of the Year" in .net magazine's 2008 and 2009 Best of the Web awards.

To learn more about Dennis Lembree, the founder and main host of Web Axe, visit his web site at www.DennisLembree.com.