Latest post:Social Accessibility - Threes a Crowd? - 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.
Cedric Trevisan has developed a version of the contrast analyser for MAC. Available in English, French, German, Italian and Swedish. Now also available in traditional Chinese.
Mike Pacillo is presenting on Modeling Usability, Interoperability, and Harmonization: The New Section 508
Since the summer of 2006, the Telecommunications and Electronic & Information Technology Advisory Committee (TEITAC), has been working on an optimized version of accessibility technical standards. This expert group of national and international constituents used the existing US federal standards, Section 508 (E & IT) and Section 255 (Telecommunications), as a baseline to create a universal model standard featuring interoperability, usability, and harmonization.
This presentation examines the key themes and results of the TEITAC standard. The session questions the very heart of the TEITAC charter: Has TEITAC delivered on it's promise to create a harmonized set of international standards that model accessibility, usability, and interoperability? Will this model pave the way towards achieving third wave, pervasive accessibility?