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Vimeo Updates Video Player Including Accessibility

Vimeo, a YouTube competitor, has recently updated its web-based video player. Vimeo now defaults to an HTML5-based player rather than Flash. It provides much faster playback/load times and improved tools to share a video. Although the accessibility implementation may not be perfect, it’s a very significant improvement. The Vimeo player now supports keyboard and screen reader users and supports […]

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2013 Year in Review

It was a steady (but relatively slower) year for Web Axe. Besides some blogging, I managed 2 podcasts, Twittered a lot, and maintained the Facebook page. All-in-all 2013 was a great year, with more than enough things to review; here are some: 2013 was the year of the successful Easy Chirp 2 Kickstarter campaign and […]

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Fun Web Accessibility Videos

Follow Harold in his quest to make an accessible website for his company Jiffy Brothers! This is an entertaining two-part video series about a fictional company and its website. It’s produced by The Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA) of Ontario, Canada. Watch out for Boris! Part 1 “Auditing Your Website for Accessibility” Part 2 “Developing an Accessible […]

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Accessibility Summit Quick Review

The Accessibility Summit, an online conference on accessibility, took place earlier this week. The event is presented by the good folks at Environments for Humans (@e4h). The event was one day in the past few years but was extended to two days this year! If you attended or not, take a look at the great information […]

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Tools & Code Examples for ARIA Development

Here are some good tools, code examples, and other resources for developing with WAI-ARIA. Know any other good recent ones? Tools aViewer Accessibility Inspector for Firebug AInspector Sidebar add-on for Firefox Juicy Studio Accessibility Toolbar WAVE 5 Web Evaluation Tools Bookmarklet Deque WorldSpace FireEyes Code Examples WAI-ARIA techniques with code examples (by 3Needs) Accessible jQuery-UI Components Demo (by Hans […]