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Round Up: SVG, ARIA, GAAD, WP, Ai Squared

Post author By Dennis
Post date May 9, 2014
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Some great links of late:

Tips for Creating Accessible SVG by @LeonieWatson
ARIA Examples by @heydonworks
Events around the world May 15 for GAAD, Global Accessibility Awareness Day
Tips to Create an Accessible and Contrasted Color Palette by @walterstephanie
WordPress Accessibility summer online course by @joedolson from CU Boulder
Website Accessibility and WordPress by @cdils
Introducing ZoomText Mac 1.1 – Now with Speech, a YouTube by Ai Squared
Ai Squared Merges with GW Micro

2013 Year in Review

It was a steady (but relatively slower) year for Web Axe. Besides some blogging, I managed 2 podcasts, Twittered a lot, and maintained the Facebook page. All-in-all 2013 was a great year, with more than enough things to review; here are some:

2013 was the year of the successful Easy Chirp 2 Kickstarter campaign and the (soft) relaunch of Easy Chip 2 beta website (if you didn’t know, I also am the creator/developer of Easy Chirp).
For the first time in person, it was a pleasure to meet Greg Kraus and Kathy Wahlbin at Accessing Higher Ground and Chris Coyier at the CSS Developer Conference.
The rise of the accessibility of WordPress.
Representing my day job, I spoke at several events including the Boston Accessibility Conference and CSUN13 (and looking forward to CSUN14!) And for the first time, I spoke at the online Accessibility Summit and the CSS Developer Conference.
Discovered great folks such as @LauraKalbag; check out her terrific blog Why Bother with Accessibility? And @ScottKellum, read his blog Accessibility isn’t a buzzword, it’s personal.
Sticking to basics was a theme for me this year including blog posts Keep the Underline and Links: Don’t “Click Here”. In the social media, I was shocked and disappointed in having to argue for progressive enhancement.
Lots of accessibility jobs created/available especially with large companies such as Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, Comcast, and now Yahoo. I do blog and tweet these so if you or anyone you know is looking, give me a follow.
A few extra-special links from 2013:
- Hitting the accessibility high notes with ARIA (by @Ted_Drake)
- Accessibility evaluation for web writers (by @Writing4Web)
- HTML5 accessibility (presentation video, @SteveFaulkner)
- Designing with Empathy (slideshare by @AaronGustafson)
- How Designers Destroyed the World (presentation video)

Do you have anything special to share from this past year?

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A11Y Roundup, Summer 2013

Post author By Dennis
Post date September 8, 2013
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Here are some great links from this past summer. Enjoy!

Designing with Empathy – slideshare by Aaron Gustafson.
Accessible Mega Menu – by Adobe.
Accessible Dropdown Menus, a WordPress plugin – by Graham Armfield and Amy Hendrix.
Accessibility tutorial – by Matt Long.
Introduction to ARIA Widgets – by Jason Kiss.
Top signs that your new web project won’t be accessible – by BDaily.co.uk.
5 HTML5 and ARIA design patterns – by Léonie Watson and Steve Faulkner.
Keyboard and Interaction Accessibility Techniques – slideshare by Jared Smith.
Current State of Authoring Accessible SVG – by Doug Schepers.

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Web Axe 2012 Year in Review

Post author By Dennis
Post date January 1, 2013
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It was another great year for Web Axe and its creator Dennis Lembree.

Early in 2012, we published the Podcast 94: Women of CSUN12 featuring six female presenters (one of my favorite podcasts); then a quick review of the conference.

May was the month of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD). Here’s the GAAD podcast and Reflecting on GAAD by guest author Jennison.

To address the most bothersome trend of the year, we wrote Placeholder Attribute Is Not A Label!

Mid-year, Dennis was fortunate enough to attend Google IO12; here’s the blog, Google IO12 Review and Accessibility.

In September, we published a extensive book review on Pro HTML5 Accessibility. Then, Dennis presented How To Build An Accessible Web Application virtually at the Boston Accessibility (Un)Conference.

In October, a huge change came to the New Web Axe Website! We moved from Blogger to WordPress. The RSS feed has also changed. Please update your links.

In November came Accessibility Camp LA and a podcast featuring great improvements in WordPress accessibility.

Lastly, here are some blog responses and website reviews over the year:

Looking forward to another big year in 2013!

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