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Articles and resources about accessibility guidelines, and in particular government and W3C guidelines.
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- The Dutch accessibility law is awesome
- by Roger Johansson. 456 Berea Street, February 13, 2007. "... These guidelines (rules, rather) are amazing. They go way beyond the Swedish guidelines that I've been involved in writing, and it is mandatory for government websites to comply with them..."
Added: 6 March 2007;
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- W3C Announces Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA)
- W3C's WAI-ARIA Features Will Enable Accessible Dynamic Web Sites. W3C. Media Release, 26 September 2006. "Today, W3C's Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) introduces a suite of documents that will make it easier for Web site developers to make dynamic Web content usable to people with disabilities. The First Public Working Drafts of the Accessible Rich Internet Application suite include the WAI-ARIA Roadmap, WAI-ARIA Roles, and WAI-ARIA States and Properties..."
Added: 3 October 2006;
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- Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roadmap)
- W3C Working Draft, 26 September 2006. "Abstract - The Roadmap for Accessible Rich Internet Applications (WAI-ARIA Roadmap) addresses the accessibility of dynamic Web content for people with disabilities. The roadmap outlines the technologies to map controls, AJAX live regions, and events to accessibility APIs, including custom controls used for Rich Internet Applications. The roadmap also outlines new navigation techniques to mark common Web structures as menus, primary content, secondary content, banner information and other types of Web structures. These new technologies can be used to improve the accessibility and usability of Web resources by people with disabilities, without extensive modification to existing libraries of Web resources..."
Added: 3 October 2006;
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- Unified Web Evaluation Methodology version 1.0
- wabcluster.org, July 5, 2006. "This methodology is the result of a joint effort by 23 European organisations in three European projects combined in a cluster to develop a Unified Web Evaluation Methodology. The methodology is based on the W3C Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 [WCAG10] and will be synchronised with the foreseen migration from WCAG 1.0 to WCAG 2.0 [WCAG20] in the near future. In the next phase of the Cluster, more effort will be attributed to work to help and support W3C work on the guidelines..."
Added: 28 July 2006;
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- ITAA joins Section 508 advisory committee
- By Wade-Hahn Chan. Federal Computer Week, July 17, 2006. "The U.S. Access Board has named the Information Technology Association of America to the advisory committee that will update Section 508 guidelines for the federal government. The committee will review standards and guidelines related to the accessibility of computer hardware, software and telecommunications for people with disabilities..."
Added: 18 July 2006;
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- WebAIM Section 508 Checklist
- WebAIM. Revised 2006. Article Contents - Part 1: for HTML; Part 2: for Scripts, Plug-ins, Java, etc.
Added: 13 July 2006;
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- Section 508 Standards
- General Services Administration, 2006. This site provides Section 508 information and guidance. "Section 508 requires that when [US] Federal agencies develop, procure, maintain, or use electronic and information technology, Federal employees with disabilities have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to the access and use by Federal employees who are not individuals with disabilities, unless an undue burden would be imposed on the agency. Section 508 also requires that individuals with disabilities, who are members of the public seeking information or services from a Federal agency, have access to and use of information and data that is comparable to that provided to the public who are not individuals with disabilities, unless an undue burden would be imposed on the agency..."
Added: 13 July 2006;
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