Contrast Analyser, Version 2.1 - permanent link
The WAT- C Colour Contrast Analyser has been updated to reflect changes in WCAG 2.0
Some important clarifications are now included:
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Free ARIA - permanent link
Aaron Leventhal has set up a new group for people who want to help provide free tools and resources for the advancement of WAI-ARIA.
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Google Chrome Accessibility - permanent link
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 […]
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The Helen Project - More Social Accessibility - permanent link
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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JAWS version 10 with WAI-ARIA live region support! - permanent link
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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Hands-On Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) @ SXSW Interactive 2009 - permanent link
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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Do WAI-ARIA - Google Is! - permanent link
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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A Brave New alt in {HTML5} - permanent link
Update 08/08/09
What the King of HTML5 giveth, he taketh away. The use of { } is now HTML5 history.
You can wonder at the greatness of his latest proclamations of altness here: Requirements for providing text to act as an alternative for images.
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After much data crunching Of ’billions of web pages’, in his infinite wisdom the King of […]
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Introduction to WAI ARIA - Gez Lemon - permanent link
Gez Lemon from TPG has written an article for Dev.Opera, which provides an Introduction to WAI ARIA.
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Social Accessibility - Threes a Crowd? - permanent link
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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