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Hot off the presses of many major gaming and technical news outlets is a story about a gamer who is visually impaired who is suing Sony Online Entertainment (Everquest 2) for game accommodations in massively multiplayer online games. Alexander Stern, a gamer who is disabled from California, filed suit against multiple Son (Read More)
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Some 30 million Americans potentially rely on software accessibility features to access library materials, according to the Reading Rights Coalition (RRC). So last spring, when text-to-speech (TTS) stopped working on OverDrive ebooks because of a software change from Adobe, millions of print-disabled patrons found themselve (Read More)
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We recently did an audit of a website where probably close to 99% of all the information it contained was in downloadable documents, mostly PDFs. These documents contained a lot of the stuff you'd usually find on a website, structured text, data tables, application forms, complex diagrams, graphs and other images. None of t (Read More)
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European information commissioner Viviane Reding has proposed a pan-European law that would ensure website accessibility for people with disabilities. Reding said in a speech on Thursday that a potential 'European Disability Act' should ensure European approaches to e-accessibility are not fragmented. "Each member state i (Read More)
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Today I received the text from a speech made on 1st October 2009 by Viviane Reding, Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media. The speech was to launch "The Digital Single Market: a key to unlock the potential of the knowledge based economy EDiMA's White Paper on Policy Strategy for the (Read More)
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For most college students, everyday activities like going to class and taking notes on a lecture are simple tasks. But these jobs can be more complicated if a student is in a wheelchair or trying to take notes on a lecture they can't hear. Lee Henson, the MU Americans with Disabilities Act coordinator, distinguished betwee (Read More)
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I wasn't at the digital engagement conference thingummy yesterday but I was keeping an eye on the tweets of people who were talking about it, wondering if anything would strike my eye as being particularly newsworthy, or of significant import. Having quite a bit of knowledge of accessible web design and in testing against (Read More)
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The new W3C website has a new and very good summary of the why, what, and how of Web accessibility.Read full postPosted in Accessibility, Web Standards.
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In my experience it can be hard to make people understand that colour blindness can actually cause real problems for real people on the web. Sometimes when I point out that the colour combinations used in a design can make it hard or even impossible for some people to use a website properly, the response I get is “Well it l (Read More)
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The Lightbox effect is showing up pretty much everywhere on the web these days. There are approximately one million different implementations that basically do the same thing: when the user clicks on an image, the screen is dimmed and a larger version of the image is displayed until the user closes it by clicking a ”Close” (Read More)
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Ross interviews web guru Jeremy Keith; Dennis and Ross discuss news, articles, and Google Wave.Download Web Axe Episode 75 (Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave) Chatter 15 Podcasts That Will Make You Smarter via Nancy White Interviewing Martha Lane Fox about Digital Inclusion by Sandi Wassmer (@SandiWassmer) News and Links (Read More)
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A few months ago I emphasised the importance of not making things difficult for people who do not use a mouse by removing the outline from links and form controls.If leaving the outline property at its default is not an option for you, perhaps the technique Patrick Lauke describes in Better CSS outline suppression could wor (Read More)
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One of my pet peeves is websites that aren’t keyboard friendly. I’ve been on about it in posts like Don’t forget keyboard navigation and Do not remove the outline from links and form controls.Keyboard accessibility really does tend to be forgotten or ignored by many web developers, so it’s good to see it being discussed at (Read More)
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In their effort to find niche markets, the tourist destinations have finally realised that people with disabilities constitute an advanced market with advanced needs and lot of perspectives; a market that belongs among the most loyal groups of clients. Let's not forget that Europe is getting older and the obligations of the (Read More)
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Before Congress adjourned on June 26, Rep. Ed Markey (D-MA) introduced the "21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act of 2009" (H.R. 3101). This comprehensive measure would modernize disability accessibility mandates in the Communications Act, bringing existing requirements up to date as TV and phone services (Read More)
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