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Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs

Deborah Edwards-Onoro, a key member of Refresh Detroit, has posted an excellent article, Ten Tips for Creating Usable and Accessible PDFs. It has even been highlighted in the Acrobatusers.com News on December 2. Her ten detailed guidelines are: Use a structured source document Save/export document as tagged PDF Add title, author, subject and keywords Add […]

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Speaking Special Characters – A Test

In the post Test case: Speaking Special Characters from Access Matters, the author explains that proper markup for special characters is very important for screen reader users. There are two excellent pages provides for testing special characters, for the character types UTF-8 and ISO-8859. Feedback is very valuable, so if you are able to test […]

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Apple to Make iTunes Fully Accessible

So instead of the National Federation of the Blind (NFB) having to sue the computer giant, Apple has agreed to make its dominant iTunes software accessible by next year. Here’s a link to the press release from the NFB: National Federation of the Blind and Commonwealth of Massachusetts Announce Agreement with Apple to Make iTunes […]

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Ajax and Web Accessibility Presentation

Here’s the link to my presentation at the Accessing Higher Ground: Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference tomorrow in Boulder, Colorado. It’s a Google Doc presentation. Ajax and Web Accessibility Presentation AddendumAdding the PDF file: Ajax and Web Accessibility Presentation (PDF)

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WCAG 2 and Usability articles lack subheadings

Below are two articles on web accessibility. Unfortunately, both articles are lacking subheadings, which would make them much more scannable and usable, and therefore better accessible (see Understanding WCAG 2.0 Section Headings). Organisation in the Spotlight – W3C: Global Standards Giant Gears Up For Battle With the long-awaited appearance of version 2 of the World […]