As you may know, Acrobat 9 has recently been released. Fortunately for all, making PDFs accessible is even easier than ever. There’s some good information on the Acrobat 9 accessibility FAQ page, and many accessibility features are explained. Here are the highlights: Acrobat has an OCR text recognition feature that allows you to apply OCR […]
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In his article Writing for Accessibility, Joe Dolson explains that accessible copy is more than making non-textual elements available, it’s also about the main content! He continues to explain how tone and puncuation are very sensitive and important issues when writing for accessibility. Joe suggests: Keep your sentences on the short side Avoid excessive parenthetical […]
Today the WCAG 2.0 has been advanced to Candidate Recommendation status. This is a big step in the long W3C guideline development process. What this means is that most people agree on the technical aspects of the much needed update to WCAG 1.0, and we can start using WCAG 2.0 as a guideline as it’s […]
In his article 508 and Higher Ed., Jon Whiting at WebAIM has blogged about his findings on college web sites meeting (or not meeting) Section 508 requirements. It’s pretty sad how even college web sites, in the most part, do not meet even the most basic web accessibility requirements of Section 508. Jon states that […]
As you may know, captioning is required for accessible audio/video presentations. The Open & Closed Project (from Joe Clark) explains the downfalls of captioning on the new web site Captioning Sucks! Reasons cited are as follows (and you’ll have to go to the site to fully understand!): Not enough of it They don’t listen It’s […]