A web of web things created, touched, or seen by Chris Casciano of Place Name Here.
Lighthouse International, a leader in advocating accessibility for people with low vision, is announcing an innovative new add-on software tool that will enable millions of people worldwide with low vision to access previously inaccessible web pages. While existing programs enable blind people to access the web effectively, LowBrowse⢠is the first program to enable people with moderate or severe low vision to both view web pages as the original web author intended and read the text on those pages tailored to their own visual needs. The highly anticipated program, which runs in conjunction with the Mozilla Firefox browser, will be offered at no charge and is expected to be available to the public for download via the Firefox add-on site in late summer or early fall of 2008.
Despite a letter with the Dover mayor's signature on it accepting an offer to translate parts of the town's website into Spanish, Mayor James Dodd now says he is still opposed to the idea.
An increasing number of web applications are using JavaScript to mimic desktop widgets like menus, tree views, rich text fields, and tab panels. Web developers are constantly innovating, and future applications will contain complex, interactive elements such as spreadsheets, calendars, organizational charts, and beyond. Until now, web developers wanting to make their styled and based widgets keyboard accessible have lacked the proper techniques. However, keyboard accessibility is part of the minimum accessibility requirements that any web developer should be aware of.
"Last Monday I had the opportunity to visit the Test Partners, after an invite by Steve Green, to attend an afternoon of screen reader demonstration. Iâm exceptionally glad I went,"
The WCAG Samurai is a group of developers, led by Joe Clark, that will publish corrections for, and extensions to, existing standards for Web accessibility. Our first area of interest is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0, though we have not ruled out publishing errata on WCAG 2.0.
If youâre a standardista working on accessible websites today, are you actually, without even knowing it, an author authoring authored units to be used in authored components in programmatically-determined web units that can be parsed unambiguously?
We've all heard a great deal of buzz about AJAX in the last few months, and with this talk has come a legion of articles, tips, presentations and practical APIs designed to explore the possibilities and try to arrive at best-practice techniques. But, for all of the excitement and hype, still very little has been said on the subject of AJAX and accessibility.
GrayBit Presents: GrayBit v0.5 Beta Grayscale Conversion Contrast Accessibility Tool