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Podcast and blog on practical web design accessibility tips.

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Current Posts

WCAG 2.0 Checklist from WebAIM

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

WebAIM has recently published a valuable WCAG 2.0 Checklist—objective recommendations, or techniques, under each Success Criteria item for each Guideline. Like WCAG 2, the Guidelines are organized under the four principles: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, and Robust. WebAIM is asking for feedback on the list.

In WebAIM's words, the checklist is described as:

a simple checklist that presents the principles and techniques of WCAG 2.0 in a more user-friendly, understandable format

Labels: guidelines, wcag, wcag2, webaim

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Improving Twitter Accessibility

Thursday, January 22, 2009

I admit I'm hooked on Twitter, but unfortunately, like many web sites, it's not very web accessible.

Thanks to Gez Lemon of Juicy Studio, you may now implement a Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script to help with web accessibility, specifically keyboard use. With the script, the user is now able to view the Favorite, Reply and Delete links for each tweet in the timeline on the focus event (in addition to on current mouseover event, which obviously requires a mouse).

In order to use the script, you have to install Greasemonkey which is a Firefox add-on, so it obviously requires the Firefox web browser.

Learn more about it in the Juicy Studio article Twitter Focus.

UPDATE (Feb 3)

• The script was broken due to Twitter changing code on their site, but it is now fixed.
• I (Dennis) am working on an Accessible Twitter web site and hope to launch it within a couple weeks!

Labels: article, expert, firefox, twitter

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Web Axe 2008 in Review

Friday, January 02, 2009

Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties (my computer's power supply failing), the podcast for this post will not be done. -Dennis

Current News

• Index of Government Guidelines for Web Sites
• Adding a Map to Your Web Site, posted December 1st, 2008 by Mike Cherim
• Accessibility testing tips and tools presentation
• Inaccessible Recruitment Websites "An Emerging Scandal"
• Screen Reader Survey
  

Main Segment

• WCAG 2.0 finally official! WCAG 2.0 Published as Final Recommendation!
• In February, Joe Clark (now retired from web accessibility ) released the final update to the WCAG Samurai’s errata. Also see The WCAG Samurai Errata are now available.
• ARIA advancements; ARIA momentum and Internet Explorer
• WebAIM's WAVE 4.0 toolbar and translation project.
  
• In November, Dennis' first conference presentation, Ajax and Web Accessibility.
  
• MyClientTime (previously TimeTracker) is launched! An accessible web application designed to track and report sessions between professionals and their clients.
• Web Axe was nominated for "Podcast of the Year" in .net magazine's 2008 Best of the Web awards. Boagworld won.
• You can now donate to Web Axe with PayPal. See sidebar button.
  
• WCAG 2.0 Theme Song Web Content Accessibility Guidelines

Podcast Highlights

• Podcast #66: Target, YouTube, Fangs, and more
• Podcast #64: Language, Abbreviations, and Quotes
• Podcast #61: Accessibility Statements

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Previous Posts

• Podcast #76: Web Accessibility Disasters
• Roundup: Accessibility Links on Twitter
• Accessible YouTube Sites
• Free Browsers for Visual Impairment
• Colorblind, Law, and Lightboxes
• Podcast #75: Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave
• ATIA Chicago 2009
• Accessibility Round-Up from Twitter
• Podcast #74: Awards, Events & Back to Basics
• Accessible Twitter Wins Award, Slidedeck

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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.