Posted September 3rd, 2008 by Steve Faulkner
Google have launched their new browser, I like many other people have been very keen to install and use it. My first impression is it seems very slick, fast, has cool features such as speed dial and its intuitive to use for mouse users. I noticed yesterday that people on the Window Eyes user mailing list were discussing it […]
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Posted September 2nd, 2008 by Steve Faulkner
The Helen Project is an initiative by the American Foundation the Blind to provide all internet users, especially people with disabilities, the opportunity to register publically available feedback on the accessibility of sites they use:
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Posted August 22nd, 2008 by Steve Faulkner
I for one have been waiting to hear this news. One of the big 2 commercial screen readers will now support WAI-ARIA live regions. Let’s hope that this prompts GWMicro to add support in Window-Eyes. The JAWS version 10 public beta is scheduled for release during the week of August 24, 2008!
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Posted August 9th, 2008 by Steve Faulkner
Martin Kliehm has proposed a panel for South by Southwest (SXSW) held March 13-17, 2009 in Austin, Texas. : ‘Hands-On Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)’ .
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Posted August 7th, 2008 by Steve Faulkner
There a bunch of interesting posts on Marco’s blog about WAI-ARIA: The first one ARIA in Gmail #1: Alerts is about the use of the WAI-ARIA role=”alert” and its use in Gmail.
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Posted August 4th, 2008 by Steve Faulkner
After much data crunching Of ’billions of web pages’, in his infinite wisdom the King of HTML5 has given us a whole new way of using the alt attribute in HTML5:
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Posted July 31st, 2008 by Steve Faulkner
Gez Lemon from TPG has written an article for Dev.Opera, which provides an Introduction to WAI ARIA.
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Posted July 18th, 2008 by Steve Faulkner
I started to write a post about the new social accessibility tools/services that have been announced in the last week or so: IBM Social Accessibility Project and Webvisum.
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Posted July 4th, 2008 by Steve Faulkner
Raising Issues
In order to raise an issue or proposal in regards to the HTML5 specification you do not have to be a member of the W3C HTML Working Group (HTML WG). Anyone can simply enter a bug into the HTML Bugzilla. If the proposal or issue is rejected by those that control the specification and […]
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Posted June 20th, 2008 by Hans Hillen
After covering a basic ARIA slider as well as a more complex slider component, we will take a closer look at how a slider can be used to create a more obscure but very powerful widget: the double slider (or ‘range slider’). We will discuss what to think about when creating a double slider, and […]
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