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Podcast #42: SpokenText web app

Post author By Dennis
Post date March 5, 2007
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Dennis converses with Mark McKay founder of SpokenText.net which is a new, free online application that converts documents to audio files. Excellent tool for making documents accessible by providing an alternative format. Good for iPod usage also!

Download Web Axe Episode 42 (SpokenText web app)

This site allows you to upload text (.txt), Acrobat (.pdf) or Word (.doc) files and have them converted to spoken audio. We also let you record emails, text from a website or enter the text you need converted directly.

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Sufficient Color Contrast

Post author By Dennis
Post date February 28, 2007
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On the blog Bite Size Standards, a post by Ann McMeekin Colour with Contrast discusses color and accessibility, and also provides some excellent links to tools and references.

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Podcast: #41: The Definition of Web Accessibility

Post author By Dennis
Post date February 25, 2007
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Dennis and guest Joe Dolson discuss the definition of Web Accessibility including the W3C definition and WCAG 2.0, universal access, balance of effort, a principal?

Download Web Axe Episode 41 (Definition of Web Accessibility)

Oracle sued by blind workers in Texas

Post author By Dennis
Post date February 20, 2007
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This has to do with software accessibility, rather than web accessibility, but very relevant to the movement and the cause…

Oracle sued by blind workers in Texas

Oracle is being taken to task in a lawsuit that complains software it sold to the state of Texas is unusable by blind employees.

The suit, filed in Texas state court, alleges Oracle’s human resources software and other products do “not provide equal access to blind persons using screen access technology”. One plaintiff says he is unable to review or enter hours worked, leave taken or information concerning employees he supervises without the help of a sighted colleague.

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New Dutch accessibility law

Post author By Dennis
Post date February 18, 2007
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New Dutch accessibility law (QuirksBlog)

The Dutch accessibility law is awesome (456 Berea St)

required by law to use:

* valid HTML 4.01 or XHTML 1.0
* CSS and semantic HTML and separation of structure and presentation
* progressive enhancement
* the W3C DOM (instead of the old Microsoft document.all)
* meaningful values of class and id
* meaningful alt attributes on all images

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