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Podcast #76: Web Accessibility Disasters

Dennis and Ross review web sites which should be great in web accessibility, but fail badly. The hosts provide a lot of constructive criticism, including many fixes that can be done in a minimal amount of time. Issues are also good to discuss as a reminder for our own work. Download Web Axe Episode 76 […]

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Roundup: Accessibility Links on Twitter

Here’s a list of some great links relating to web accessibility going around Twitter last week. An excellent, open, web accessibility curriculum from WaSP InterAct (@waspinteract) Captioned Interview with Ken Harrenstein (Deaf) and T.V. Raman (Blind) both Engineers at Google. AIR 2 Beta, Introducing Accessibility Support Automatic captions in YouTube Upcoming web accessibility training courses […]

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Translate Captions on YouTube!

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Accessible YouTube Sites

There are two web accessible versions of the popular YouTube video web site, that I’m aware of at least. (If you know others, please comment.) They are “Easy YouTube” and “Accessible Interface to YouTube”. One big issue is that captioning doesn’t appear to be supported on either site. I’ve never worked with the YouTube API […]

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Colorblind, Law, and Lightboxes

Color Sensitive I usually shy away from About.com, but I recently came across a piece worth mentioning. In the article Are Your Web Pages Color Sensitive? from the HTML/Web Design section, Jennifer Kyrnin provides some good information and techniques for web development with color blindness in mind. Here are some good tips from Jennifer: Don’t […]