Posts in Accessibility

8 posts in this category

Dec 20, 2006
Accessibility

Irony in Accessible Design

My web browser’s home page is set to MSN.com, and I just noticed an interesting-sounding article on the main page, entitled Designing for the Visually Impaired. As I have a fairly keen interest in this topic, I opened the link to discover a beauti...

Nov 21, 2006
Accessibility

Accessibility Virtual Brown Bag Talk

Anna Bradley, the CEO of Criterion 508 Solutions, will be giving a talk at the Access Board, a Federal agency for accessibility, on December 13th. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any clear sense of what Anna will actually be talking about....

Oct 25, 2006
Accessibility

Suing for Accessible Surfing

From the Associated Press: Last month a federal judge in California allowed the [National Federation for the Blind's] case [suing Target Corp. for an accessible web site] to proceed, rejecting Target's argument that its Web site wasn't subject to ...

Oct 04, 2006
Accessibility

Blind Programming

Want to know how blind developers really work? Ask them. Sign up for the Blind Programming mailing list. Although I certainly do not speak for that community, the people I’ve spoken to have always appreciated knowing that the people creating devel...

Sep 28, 2006
Accessibility

You are not done yet!

I wanted to share a fantastic blog posting on accessibility that I just found by way of Coding Horror. As part of Michael Hunter’s DDJ blogging series entitled “YOU ARE NOT DONE YET,” Michael posted a great list of accessibility scenarios that sho...

Jul 29, 2006
Accessibility

Check your Accessibility with MSAAVerify

Sara Ford, formerly the de facto head of Accessibility testing for all of Visual Studio (and a Black Belt in Karate, so don’t mess with her), published a handy-dandy utility for verifying the correctness of common MSAA properties and roles on GotD...

Jul 26, 2006
Accessibility

What' Eating WCAG 2?

Joe Clark, author of Building Accessible Websites (which needs a cover less-reminiscent of a certain web meme, in my opinion), wrote an impassioned tirade against the perceived uselessness of the W3C’s WCAG 2 guidelines back in May. Joe makes a lo...