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expert interview podcast

Other Accessibility Podcasts (and UX)

Information & Design is a usability and user experience company based in Melbourne, Australia. Its web site offers a fine list of User Experience Podcasts, which includes a few on accessibility, including the following: Web content accessibility guidelines V2.0 – an interview with Shawn Henry Accessibility: an interview with Dr. Sofia Celic Web accessibility guidelines: […]

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cognitive design usability

7 tips for designing for older users

Although the article from webcredible is titled “7 tips for designing for older users“, the strategies are great for plain old usability and accessibility. Here is a summary with some comments. Make obvious what’s clickable and what’s not. (Please don’t mess with the underlines!) Use radio buttons rather than dropdown menus. (Unless you have over, […]

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law review

Site of Section 508 Testing Company Not Compliant

NTS Corp (National Technical Systems, Inc.) is a company in which offers testing services. They claim that they offer testing for web sites ??? to Section 508. http://www.ntscorp.com/services/ComputerElectronicProducts/TestingServices/WebsiteTesting/WebAccessibility Not readable without CSS (logo) No label on search input field No skip links Headings

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conference

Access U 2009 Conference

The Access U 2009 Conference is coming up fast! It will be held at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas, on Monday May 11 and Tuesday, May 12, 2009 (with post-conference sessions on May 13). Pricing and registration information. Here’s a summary of the event: In addition to two-days of the best hands-on accessibility classes, […]

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expert google keyboard text

Keyboard Access for Google Maps

Google Maps is awesome, but it is not keyboard accessible. Patrick H. Lauke provides a solution by retrofitting keyboard access into google maps. Brilliant article. (Obviously JavaScript is still required.) Also, Google Maps provides a text-only option, which is nice for those using assistive devices, mobile devices, low or costly bandwidth, etc.