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Improving Twitter Accessibility

I admit I’m hooked on Twitter, but unfortunately, like many web sites, it’s not very web accessible. Thanks to Gez Lemon of Juicy Studio, you may now implement a Focus Twitter Greasemonkey script to help with web accessibility, specifically keyboard use. With the script, the user is now able to view the Favorite, Reply and […]

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Web Axe 2008 in Review

Unfortunately, due to technical difficulties (my computer’s power supply failing), the podcast for this post will not be done. -Dennis Current News Index of Government Guidelines for Web Sites Adding a Map to Your Web Site, posted December 1st, 2008 by Mike Cherim Accessibility testing tips and tools presentation Inaccessible Recruitment Websites “An Emerging Scandal” […]

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WAVE Translation Project

In the blog post WAVE Translation Project Begins, our friends at WebAIM have announced the start of a project to translate their web accessibility toolbar WAVE into several languages beginning with Spanish. You can help by doing one (or more!) of the following: Improve translation of the WAVE feedback. Improve the accuracy of WAVE rules. […]

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Podcast #67: WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin

Download Web Axe Episode 67 (WCAG2, events, CS4, John Slatin) News & Events Joe Clark wanted to be listed in Ross’ typography blog post Ross in the news (co-working style enviornment) Refresh Detroit meeting November 19 will focus on web accessibility Dennis to speak at Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference; November […]

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Paul Boag wears reading glasses and gloves

In Boagworld podcast episode 130, I discovered that in order to help test web accessibility, Paul Boag wears glasses (that he doesn’t need) and gloves and attempts to navigate through a site. Excellent idea! In order to better understand [the elderly’s] experience I have bought a pair to ski gloves and some reading glasses (I […]