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About the 2010 Accessing Higher Ground Conference

So I’m starting to regret not attending the AHG conference this year (Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference). I attended (and presented) at the previous two events. This year looks just as good, if not better. AHG 2010 will be November 15-19 at the Westin Hotel in Westminster, Colorado, located about 13 […]

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Link Roundup – August 2010

HTML5 Issue: Longdesc Retention (W3C wiki) Raakt – The Ruby Accessibility Analysis Kit Accessible ARIA Tabs by @jkiss UStream videos from Montreal accessibility conference (#a11yMTL) Developing an Accessible Star Ratings Widget (YUI blog) Report Finds Five U.S. State Benefits’ Websites Inaccessible (COAT) Ten tools to help test website accessibility Accessibility in Online Teaching – a […]

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Accessibility in .Net Mag Awards

Two nominations directly related to web accessibility appeared in the .net magazine’s 2010 Best of the Web awards. This site, Web Axe, was nominated for “Podcast of the Year” and Accessible Twitter was nominated for “Best API Use”. Please make your vote and support the importance of web accessibility and the efforts of these two […]

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Podcast #83: Fate of Longdesc in HTML5

What’s the fate of the “longdesc” attribute in HTML5? Can or should the “aria-labelledby” ARIA attribute replace it? These are some of the controversial issues discussed by Dennis and guests John Foliot (@johnfoliot), Everett Zufelt (@ezufelt), and Joe Dolson (@joedolson). Download Web Axe Episode 83 (Fate of Longdesc in HTML5) [transcript of podcast 83] Related […]

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No to Text Resize Widgets

Michael Gifford (@mgifford) recently wrote a tweet on text-resizing widgets. It said: Is it time to scrap text resize widgets and teach people how to resize text http://bit.ly/94jNkv I totally agree. Say no to text resize widgets. To enlarge text for users, the browser should be used (many reasons below). See this video from OpenConcept […]