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Accessibility Jobs, Sept 2014

Assistive Technology Specialist at Southern New Hampshire University in Manchester, NH. Quality Assurance Tester – Section 508 Compliance in New York, NY. Sales Engineer for the Accessibility Management Platform at SSB Bart Group in Manchester, NH. Sr. Product Manager, Accessibility wanted at eBay in San Jose, CA. Web User Interface Analyst (direct hire) at Modis in […]

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Proper Use of Buttons and Links

After years of arguing for proper use of form elements and link elements, others are finally doing the same. More recently, this includes the articles The Anchor Button: Bad for Accessibility, Bad for Usability by Matt Long and Reinventing the hyperlink (with much humor!) by Heydon Pickering. The main point is, please do the basics. When designing a website, ensure controls […]

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Web Accessibility Jobs, July 2014

Wanted (all in U.S.): Visual information designer with WCAG skills in Princeton, NJ. Architect Manager – Accessibility Specialist at Modis in NYC. Accessibility Specialist in San Francisco, CA. Human Computer Interaction Developer with JAWS experience in Fairfax, VA. Coordinator of Academic Accessibility at University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA. Accessibility Engineer at Oracle in Nashua or Burlington, MA. Section 508 Web […]

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Web Accessibility Jobs, June 2014

Wow, there’s been quite an influx of great web accessibility-related job listings lately. So here’s the list. All are in USA except the last which is located in Toronto, Canada. Added! Software Engineer at WebAIM in Logan, Utah area. Senior Accessibility Analyst at Indiana University In Indianapolis, Indiana. Human/Computer Interaction Developer in Fairfax, VA. Software Engineer with WCAG […]

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Clearing Up Summary

The summary attribute is a “classic” method to describe data tables to screen readers users. It’s mentioned in Section 508 and even in WCAG 2.0 technique H73. But this technique is outdated and I haven’t recommended its use for a while now. Reasons not to use the summary attribute Why don’t I recommended its use? Here are […]