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Refresh06 Conference

I’m trying to make it to the Refresh06 Conference in Orlando, Florida this fall. Looks like a good one. Topics include web standards and web accessibility. Speakers include Andy Budd, Cameron Moll, and Paul Boag. November 16th – 18th, 2006; $349 per person. Refresh Web Standards Conference

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Accessibility Toolbar for Opera

Presenting, for Opera users, the Web Accessibility Toolbar for Opera. The teams from Web Accessibility Tools Consortium, Vision Australia and The Paciello Group have developed for the Opera browser the useful toolbar that they built for Windows IE. Web Accessibility Toolbar for Opera

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Tab Index – why and why not

WCAG Guidelines 9.4 (Priority 3) says to create a logical tab order through links, form controls, and objects. The “tabindex” attribute is great because it does exactly that — it specifies the position of the current element in the tabbing order for the current document. But are they needed? Download Web Axe Episode 24 (Tab […]

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WCAG 2.0 and Accessibility Testers

WCAG 2.0 – What You Can Do Right Now – great article on keeping pace with the new version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (2.0 is soon to release by the W3C) The One-Click Accessibility Self-Test – neat inline accessibility checker tool GrayBit – visually convert a web page into grayscale for the purpose […]

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Accessible Headers with Graphics

The issue is that a lot of web sites use graphical images for headings. But images don’t use heading tags (H1, H2, etc.) which create the semantic code we all want, which are ideal for screenreaders, SEO, etc. So the “image replacement” technique uses valid code and CSS to display header images within a heading […]