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Articles and resources about technology which assists in making websites accessible including screen readers and browsers.
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- Accessibility Technology: Articles - Archive
- Articles about technology which assists in making websites accessible including screen readers and browsers.
Added: 16 December 2005
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- Accessibility Technology: Resources - Archive
- Resources about technology which assists in making websites accessible including screen readers and browsers.
Added: 20 December 2005
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- Rough Guide: browsers, operating systems and screen reader support
- by Steve Faulkner, The Paciello Group Blog, Posted on February 6, 2012. "When testing aspects of support for new HTML5, WAI-ARIA features and HTML features in general, I often test browsers that do not have practical support for screen readers on a particular operating system. I find they have support for feature X, but lack support for feature Y that is required to enable practical support to web content for screen reader users. While it is useful to test and find successful implementations of discrete features, it needs to be viewed in the broader context of which browsers can be considered usable with popular OS level screen readers..."
Added: 1 March 2012;
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- Accessibility & WordPress
- Posted by WDC. ecodelphinus.com, January 7, 2012 "This post is designed as a quick accessibility jump point on WordPress..."
Added: 1 February 2012;
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- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and Implementing ATAG 2.0 Working Drafts Updated
- W3C, 26 April 2011. "The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published updated Working Drafts of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 and the companion document Implementing ATAG 2.0. ATAG defines how authoring tools should help developers produce accessible web content that conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. It also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use them. Comments are welcome through 24 May 2011. Please see the invitation to review the ATAG 2.0 Working Draft for more information. Learn more about the Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI)..."
Added: 3 May 2011;
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- Keyboard Traps
- by Dan Stringer. Humanising Technology Blog, 13 April 2011. "... A 'keyboard trap' occurs when a person who uses a keyboard cannot move focus away from an interactive element or control using the keyboard alone. Since a keyboard trap can be so immobilising the WCAG 2.0 guidelines dedicate an entire success criterion to this issue alone..."
Added: 2 May 2011;
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- Blind users get web friendly
- by AAP. The Australian, October 4, 2010. "Two blind computer programmers have developed a free software program so other visually impaired people can join the online world. The free program generates a synthetic voice to read the words on a computer screen as the cursor passes over them..."
Added: 7 October 2010;
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- Introducing The Workshop's free accessible media player
- The Workshop, 23 July 2010. "We've developed an accessible media player and we’re making it available to download for free right here on our website..."
Added: 1 September 2010;
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- Accessible Web Search for the Visually Impaired
- by Dan Johnson, SEO Workers. Discusses - Google Accessible Search for the Visually Impaired; Do visually impaired users need a specialized search engine?; What does this mean for site owners?; What makes a page accessible?; How can I make my site more accessible?; What’s the bottom line?
Added: 3 August 2010;
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- Speech recognition: things you might not know
- By Rhodri Buttrick. Webcredible, 5 July 2010. Ten things about speech recognition software which might surprise you.
Added: 15 July 2010;
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- A few problems with the concept of accessible PDFs, Part Two
- Gian Wild's blog - Practical accessibility, 11 June 2010. "... This is part two of a review of the Accessibility Support Documentation for PDF [looking at Correctly tagged headings]. Reading through the document is quite reassuring, with every single success criterion (even the AAA ones) either supported by Adobe, or the responsibility of the document authors. It's only when one reads the Appendices that it becomes apparent that all is not as it seems. Adobe PDF does fail in some serious ways, it just seems to have escaped the author of the Accessibility Support document. But firstly, I looked at the lack of testing, and make sure you read the comments because there is one from Adobe! Secondly, let's look at the document in more detail..."
Added: 16 June 2010;
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- How to make the web accessible to everyone
- by Carrie Saint Freedman. Computer Weekly, Thursday 27 May 2010. "Despite a range of legislation and best practice advice, cyberspace is still far from equitable for those of us "non-standard" enough to be using adaptive or assistive technology..."
Added: 2 June 2010;
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- Accessible online video for keyboard-only users
- by Trenton Moss. Webcredible, December 2009. "When making accessible online video we all tend to think about the needs of blind and deaf users, concentrating on subtitles and transcripts. These features, while essential, can be time-consuming and technically difficult to implement, and are still only part of the accessibility job. An oft-forgotten group, when it comes to accessible online video, is the motor impaired and particularly keyboard-only users..."
Added: 3 March 2010;
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- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0: Updated Working Draft - May 2009
- W3C, 21 May 2009. "The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 in preparation for the Last Call Working Draft..."
Added: 26 May 2009;
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- NVDA: a free, open source screen reader
- by Roger Johansson. 456 Berea St, posted March 26, 2009. "Testing your work with a screen reader, especially if you're building something that is more advanced than a basic info website, is likely to help you create a more accessible website..."
Added: 6 April 2009;
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- Screen reader testing
- by Roger Johansson. 456 Berea St, March 10, 2009. "Though as a sighted user I find it very difficult to fully grasp what it's like for a blind or severly vision impaired person to browse the Web with a screen reader, I still think it's quite useful to spend some time with a few screen readers..."
Added: 16 March 2009;
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- Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0: Updated Working Draft - February 2009
- W3C, 17 February 2009. "The Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines Working Group has published an updated Working Draft of Authoring Tool Accessibility Guidelines (ATAG) 2.0 that is synchronized with the finalized WCAG 2.0. ATAG defines how authoring tools should help Web developers produce Web content that is accessible and conforms to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0. ATAG also defines how to make authoring tools accessible so that people with disabilities can use them..."
Added: 4 March 2009;
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