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New Dutch accessibility law

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Post date February 18, 2007
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New Dutch accessibility law (QuirksBlog)

The Dutch accessibility law is awesome (456 Berea St)

required by law to use:

* valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0
* CSS and semantic HTML and separation of structure and presentation
* progressive enhancement
* the W3C DOM (instead of the old Microsoft document.all)
* meaningful values of class and id
* meaningful alt attributes on all images

Podcast #40: About CAPTCHA and Accessibility

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Post date February 17, 2007
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Dennis and Ross discuss different methods of implementing CAPTCHA on the web and how to make it accessible.

Download Web Axe Episode 40 (About CAPTCHA and Accessibility)

CAPTCHA Services

References

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Improving accessibility for today’s AJAX – To hack or not? from Access Matters
Refresh Detroit February meetup

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Practical, Entry-Level Web Accessibility

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Post date February 1, 2007
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Practical, Entry-Level Web Accessibility from Mike Cherim at Beast-Blog is a good article on the basics of web accessibility. Topics include:

Proper Element Use
Laying Out Your Page
Apply Links the Right Way
Alt and Title Attributes
Content Visibility

Comments are now closed to Mike’s post, but I just barely got in my comments.

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Interview on Flash and Accessibility

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Post date February 1, 2007
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18 Questions for Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan on Flash and Accessibility is a great post from Wait till I come, the blog of web developer and Javascript expert Christian Heilmann. Chris interviews Flash experts Niqui Merret and Aral Balkan on Flash Accessibility. Questions include:

Can you elaborate what accessibility means in terms of Flash?
Is ActionScript a necessity to achieve accessibility?
Can Flash interact with screenreaders? If so, how?
Can pure Flash applications ever be as accessible as HTML solutions?

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Podcast #39: Business Reasons for Web Accessibility

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Post date January 30, 2007
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Dennis and Ross discuss the various business reasons for web accessible including increased users, easier maintenance, avoiding lawsuits, and decreasing bandwidth. Some good news items also.

Download Web Axe Episode 39 (Business Reasons for Web Accessibility)