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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
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
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
