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Website Accessibility
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Visually Impaired Gamer Sues SOE for Game Accommodations - AbleGamers Statement
6 days ago

Accessibility in the News: 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 onlin (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topics: Visually Impaired, Accessibility, Disabilities


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Are PDFs More Important Than Web Accessibility?
6 days ago

Accessibility in the News: 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, s (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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Call for law to improve websites for disabled
Nov 09, 2009

Accessibility in the News: 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 (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topics: Accessibility, Disabilities


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European Accessibility laws - a misguided move?
Nov 09, 2009

Accessibility in the News: 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 t (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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New accessibility overview on the W3C website
Nov 03, 2009

456 Berea Street: 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. . (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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Design patterns and examples for colour blindness
Oct 26, 2009

456 Berea Street: 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 (Read More)
News Networks: Web Design, Website Accessibility
Topics: Web Design, Accessibility


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Podcast #75: Jeremy Keith Interview, Google Wave
Oct 18, 2009

Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog: 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 I (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topics: Usability, Accessibility


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Indian websites flout guidelines for the disabled
Oct 07, 2009

Accessibility in the News: But government's draft National Policy for Electronic Accessibility offers some hope. Last month, Deepak Kumar (name changed on request), a businessman who is visually-impaired, logged on to check out for some information on (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topics: Disabilities, Accessibility


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The Best Reason for Accessibility
Oct 02, 2009

Web Site Accessibility Blog: Courtesy: Good Experience BlogThe number one reason to build an accessible website (or to be accessible, no matter what the subject): You lose money, and potential customers have bad experiences.Good Experience Blog shows an (Read More)
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Topic: Accessibility


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Accessibility and Usability Report offered by Jacob Nielson
Oct 02, 2009

Web Site Accessibility Blog: Nielson Group offers research data as a gift for the New Year.Jacob Nielson, whom I have long admired for his excellent research into web usability, is offering a fantastic PDF report for free on his website. I am not sure i (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topics: Usability, Accessibility


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Paralympics NZ - When Web Professionals Don't Do Their Job Right
Aug 19, 2009

Accessibility in the News: It seems wrong that a disability-related organisation would have a website that is not accessible. One really shouldn't cut out their primary market. It tends to happen when the organisation relies on "professionals" who don' (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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Website Accessibility – Monthly Challenge – July 2009
Jul 21, 2009

Nice2All.com: I am sure I speak for all when I welcome Sailor back to Nice2All. Sailor has graciously agreed to write a monthly column in which he will be challenging us all to attempt just one little thing every month. This single thing (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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Article Headings, Please!
Jul 15, 2009

Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog: This has become an issue for me of late, and it needs more attention. And that is lack of sub-headings in articles. Not just the page heading and/or article heading, but headings  throughout an article to make it more accessi (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topics: Accessibility, Usability


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Don't forget about Web Accessibility
Jul 08, 2009

Accessibility in the News: Being in a wheelchair, people sometimes are not able to do shopping in every retail store. Very often stores have a few steps outside the door or levels accessible by stairs. People with disabilities usually meet some diffic (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topics: Accessibility, Disabilities


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Website accessibility is good for business
Jul 08, 2009

Accessibility in the News: If 10% of a businesses potential customers have difficulty finding it's products or services, should that business address the problem or just carry on losing that money? Nowadays, website accessibility is crucial for maximi (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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Website Accessibility and Link States
Jun 18, 2009

Nice2All.com: Link States is a topic on which I have posted before. The Website Accessibility Standards tell us to differentiate between all the different link states, they also tell us that we should not rely on color alone to do this di (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topic: Accessibility


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CannyBill and BrowseAloud
Mar 02, 2009

Web Axe - Practical Web Design Accessibility Tips - Podcast and Blog: I've recently been contacted by two companies with products relating to web accessibility, so I thought I'd pass on the information.CannyBillA very slick and accessible web application for invoicing and billing. Online demos (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topics: Accessibility, Disabilities


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Two new Yahoo goodies
Aug 14, 2008

Shape Shed: Two new goodies worth a look were released this week. The first Fire Eagle allows applications to access details of your location. The second is a preview of the update to the YUI the Yahoo interface library. Another Sugar Da (Read More)
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Blind MBA girds for battle with Ottawa over issue of website accessibility
Aug 11, 2008

UK Disability Living: … images and PDF files that blind and visually impaired persons cannot read,” Jodhan said. Jutta Treviranus, … benefits from government services to, amongst others, people with disabilities such as Ms. (Read More)
News Network: Website Accessibility
Topics: Accessibility, Visually Impaired


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