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Podcast #55: WCAG Samurai

The WCAG Samurai is an “independent group of developers convened in 2006” and headed up by Joe Clark, accessibility guru. In this podcast, Dennis and Ross discuss the WCAG Samurai’s errata to the W3C’s WCAG 1.0 web accessibility guidelines. This includes: what it is and if we should use it discussing the 12 main points […]

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Terribly Inaccessible CAPTCHA

Found this terrible, almost humorous example of inaccessible CAPTCHA. If you’re blind, I don’t think refreshing the page will help you read the letters in the image! Here’s the Web Axe entry on how to make accessible CAPTCHA: Podcast #40: About CAPTCHA and Accessibility.

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Podcast 54: The Summary Attribute

By now most of us should be pretty familiar with creating an accessible data table–use a caption, TH for row and col headers, scope attribute, and the summary. In this podcast, Dennis talks about the least familiar of these techniques–the summary attribute of the table element. The summary attribute is WCAG Checkpoint 5.5 (Priority 3). […]

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How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers

Here are some good web accessibility tips in an article from the American Foundation for the Blind, How to Make Your Blog Accessible to Blind Readers. Although thepoints are for blogs, but can be applied to any site. The main points of the article are: Choose an Accessible Service Describe Your Images Avoid the Dreaded […]

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Web Accessibility Articles (Gmail, Screenreader, RadioShack, Process)

Here are some good articles relating to web accessibility: Gmail Settings Now Accessible in Basic HTML View Video–From the Mouth of a Screenreader RadioShack’s Accessibility Initiative Bringing Accessibility into the Development Process Who’s responsible for accessibility?