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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 […]

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ATIA Chicago 2009

The Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) is presenting a new conference this late October: ATIA Chicago 2009 “Showcasing Excellence in Assistive Technology”. There are over 200 sessions planned. The list of exhibitors includes: Freedom Scientific HumanWare AbleNet Dolphin Computer Access The conference will be held at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel and Convention Center, in Schaumburg […]

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Accessibility Round-Up from Twitter

Accessibility Review: PetsContained.com by Joe Dolson. In the United Kingdom, join the campaign for Offcom to increase audio description on TV from 10% to 20%. Wanted: Flash and Dojo accessibility experts for contract work. Contact John Foliot at the email address: jfoliot AT stanford DOT edu. Update on The Paciello Group’s ARIA role support: how […]

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Accessible Twitter Wins Award, Slidedeck

Congratulations to Accessible Twitter which was honored with the ACCESS-IT@Web 2.0 2009 award! Here is the link to the acceptance presentation on SlideShare which was given by Meera Tank at the event in London: Accessible Twitter presentation for ACCESS-IT@Web 2.0 Slideshare provides a text version towards the bottom of the page, but here’s a better […]