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Podcast 60: Web Axe 2007 Year in Review
Happy New Year! Dennis highlights and discusses numerous podcasts and news/blog events about web accessibility in the last year.
Download Web Axe Episode 60 (2007 Year in Review)
- Podcast #56: Web Axe 2-Year Anniversary!
- Podcast #55: WCAG Samurai
- Podcast #52: REL Attribute
- Podcast #51: Option Groups (OptGroup)
- Podcast #50: Analysis of WCAG 2.0
- Podcast #47: Alternative Text in Detail
- Podcast #45: Accessible popup windows
- Podcast #40: About CAPTCHA and Accessibility
News
- Selecting an Accessible CMS
- Web Axe Named Top 5 Podcasts!
- Avoiding Extreme Accessibility
- For Review: Updated WCAG 2.0 Documents
- Lawyer warns that PDFs fail on accessibility (UK)
- Petition Asks Yahoo to Fix Their CAPTCHA
- Court rules against Target on website accessibility lawsuit
In his article/post Supporting Standards that Support Accessibility, Joe Dolson examines the (non) relationship between web standards and web accessibility. He makes the excellent point that following web standards is not the same as providing web accessibility, although generally standards are beneficial. Joe discusses examples of where standards can actually make a negative impact on the accessibility of a web page, and where rarely used code can be beneficial.
CNET TV is now captioning its Flash video using the DFXP caption support in Flash CS3. It’s quite a slick implementation (select the CC icon). View Tech Predictions for 2008 for an example. This technique is mentioned in Web Axe’s Podcast #53: Interview with Andrew Kirkpatrick, Adobe’s leading accessibility guru.
If you haven’t already heard, the W3C WAI is has announced the final review of WCAG 2.0. But before you submit your clever suggestions, be sure to review the WCAG 2.0 Documents.
Other folks blogging about the WCAG 2.0 final review: