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Link Roundup - December 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Year In Review Links
- Podcast #87: Web Axe 2010 Year in Review
- WebAIM 2010 Year In Review
- W3C #Web #Accessibility Initiative (#WAI) Year in Review by @mediaaccessaus
- Review of top 3 blog posts by Peter Ganza (@pganza)
Main Links
- Top 10 misconceptions about web accessibility
- Don't Lose Your :focus from 24 Ways; how careless CSS can make a site inaccessible
- Typefaces for Dyslexia
- Accessible forms using jQuery’s Validation plug-in from @we_are_nomensa
- Accessibility & HTML5 Today (audio/video) by @johnfoliot
- 7 Tips & Techniques For Multilingual Website Accessibility from @we_are_nomensa
- Blind Students Barred from Online Courses - Penn State & Cornell universities taking heat for inaccessible online courseware
- Cognitive Accessibility Testing from Here's One Solution
- Web Accessibility - don't disable your site by @vavroom
- WebAIM screen reader survey - open through January 10, 2011
- Cognitive #Accessibility Online by Dawn Gregg on Yahoo Accessibility Blog
- Web accessibility presentation from @AquinasWI
- ARIA highlighting Opera extension from @brucel
- Making Your Website Senior Friendly from National Institute on Aging
- I Don't Want to Read More or Click Here from @kmdk
- Text alternatives for images: a decision tree from @Writing4Web
- Cognitive Disabilities and the Web: Where Accessibility and Usability Meet? from NCDAE.org
- Are your HTML emails accessible? - guidelines from RNIB
- JetBlue fined $600K for accessibility issues
- Tutorial on building accessible tabs with ARIA and YUI3 by @IanPouncey (YDN)
- Free online course: Video Captioning Essentials
- Make those links clickable, please! by @joedolson
- Five Accessibility Myths Demolished
Labels: roundup
Podcast #87: Web Axe 2010 Year in Review
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Download Web Axe Episode 87 (Web Axe 2010 Year in Review)
News & Articles
- Web Accessibility Initiative - Mobile
- Colorblind fix - Augmented Reality
- Alt Test Treatments in Various Browsers
Main Segment
- The AccessU West conference by Knowbility scheduled for January 10-12 in San Jose, California, has been officially cancelled due to low registration numbers.
- Accessibility Toolkit on OneForty
- New series: Fixing Alt - If Web Browsers Were Celebrities
- Crap irony: Response to Twitter Keyboard Shortcuts
- HTML5 Sanity Check and Podcast #83: Fate of LongDesc in HTML5
- Seeing more web accessibility jobs opening: More Web Accessibility Jobs!
- 5-Year Web Axe Anniversary podcast with 9 guests!
- Third year in a row nominated for .Net Mag awards; haven’t made finals yet. Accessibility in .Net Mag Awards
- Major a11y updates in Drupal 7: Podcast #85: Drupal 7 Accessibility
- Critique - New Section 508 Web Site
- The CA.gov Web Site Accessibility Page
- Dennis spoke (substitute) at Yahoo’s BayJax! BayJax Presentation "Making JavaScript Accessible"
- Dennis' first CSUN rocked. Link Roundup including CSUN - March 2010
- Web Axe in BBC Podcast
Canceled Accessibility Event
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Very disappointing news today. The AccessU West conference by Knowbility scheduled for January 10-12 in San Jose, California, has been officially cancelled due to low registration numbers
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The AccessU training conference in Austin, Texas, May 17-19, 2011, will be held as usual. This event is the original from Knowbility and continues to be very successful. You can also follow Knowbility on Twitter.
Still, it's so saddening that a web accessibility event with major speakers (such as Derek Featherstone and yours truly) has such little interest. Especially in Silicon Valley. Here are some reasons I suspect. Can you think of any other?
- Accessibility is not "cool" in Bay area where other exciting web technology is created.
- Bad timing; beginning of year may be not ideal for people's personal schedules and business' budgets.
- Competition - too many other great webinars, conferences, and meetups to choose from.
Labels: conference, event
Accessibility Toolkit on OneForty
Sunday, December 12, 2010
I've created an Accessibility toolkit for accessibility-related Twitter applications on the website OneForty, a great directory of Twitter-related apps. A "toolkit" is a collection of apps with a theme in common. There are only four apps listed in my toolkit so far, so I'd surely welcome any suggestions. Note that the app must be listed on OneForty to be included in a toolkit.
Labels: twitter
Upcoming Accessibility Events
Friday, December 10, 2010
Here are some great events relating to web accessibility that are occurring soon.- Free 2-day Section 508 conference in Washington DC, Dec 13-14.
- Meetup with Sydney Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design, Tues, Dec 14, Sydney, Australia.
- Perth (Australia) Web Accessibility and Inclusive Design meetup, Wed, Dec 15, 7:30 AM.
- Workshop on Principles of Web Accessibility in Mumbai, India, 16 December.
- CANCELLED! AccessU West 2011, Knowbility’s West Coast web accessibility institute (previously CalWAC) January 10-12. CANCELLED!
- ATIA 2011 Orlando - Assistive Technology Industry Association conference, Orlando, Florida, January 26-29.
Labels: conference, event
Fixing Alt - If Web Browsers Were Celebrities
Monday, December 06, 2010
A humorous infographic was recently published and twittered about, If Web Browsers Were Celebrities (full image). I've noticed more than several of these in the last few months, and one big issue about them continues to nag me: there's no sufficient alternative text! (Also a good case for the longdesc attribute!)
So I decided to to my typing skills to work and provide the alternative text. Hopefully there will be more of these to come on this blog. So here it is, the alt text from the If Web Browsers Were Celebrities infographic:
Browser Compatibility; If Web Browsers Were Celebrities
[Each item includes a nice, large browser icon and a cartoon-style avatar of the celebrity's face.]
Firefox - Can do no wrong, though not as spry as it once seemed. Would be: Morgan Freeman.
Chrome - The new hotness. People love it so much they're nervous it will go wrong and embarrass them later. Would be: Christopher Nolan.
IE6 - Everyone thought it died a long time ago, but still seems to crop up all over the place. Would be: Betty White. [LOL!]
IE7 - After years of giving it chance after chance, performance never gets better. Would be: Matthew McConaughey.
IE8 - Trying desperately to stay relevant, even though it's still the same thing. Would be: The Shatner. [William Shatner]
Safari - Reliable performance, seems to be everywhere. Would be: Samuel Jackson. (Just wait til he collaborates with "Chrome")
Flock - Hip, but people don't take it seriously anymore. Would be: Michael Cera.
Netscape - When it died, everyone said "Oh yea, that one!" and then forgot all about it. Would be: Walter Matthau.
Opera - Only ever used if you already have 100 tabs open in IE, Firefox isn't available, and you have no toher choice. Everyone agrees it looks nice, though. Would be: J-Lo. [Jennifer Lopez]
IceWeasel - Who? You mean that weird one? Would be Kristen Schaal (AKA Mel on Flight of the Conchords)
Requires No Browser - Is unquestionably Keanu Reeves. [Avatar of Keanu says "Wo"]
Labels: "fixing alt", alt
