Hosts Dennis and Ross discuss a variety of topics.
Download Web Axe Episode 78 (Web Accessibility News)
[transcript of podcast 78] (Much thanks to Joseph Montanez for helping with transcription.)
Announcements
- About the 2009 .net magazine awards
- Web Axe site/template updates including:
- Blogger bar removed (and Google search added).
- Recent Tweets now shown! (from @webaxe)
- Web Axe in a BBC Podcast!
- Transcription
- Web Axe is seeking volunteers for transcribing podcasts. Please email or comment if you are interested.
- Transcription of Pocast 74 (Awards, Events & Back to Basics) by Jennison Asuncion.
- Transcription of Podcast 76: Web Accessibility Disasters – provided by Katherine Lynch.
- WordPress plug-ins by Ross! (for better CMS usability).
- List of Web Accessibility Conferences.
News
- New release of screenreader emulator Fangs; now updated for FireFox 3.6 by Peter Krantz (and moved to Mozilla site).
- @Jennison on Twitter rocks:
- Started 2 great new accounts: @a11yevents and @a11yjobs.
- Suggests #tsaccess as a hashtag to focus discussion on touchscreen accessibility.
- iPad Accessibility Good for grandma?
- Slides and transcript from webinar by Dennis “Twitter & Its Accessible Issues & Solutions” (see Week 2).
Articles
- The new target.com and accessibility
- A call for consistent ALT text cross browsers
- 10 Tools for Evaluating Web Design Accessibility
6 replies on “Podcast #78: Web Accessibility News”
Thanks for the WordPress goodies guys!
Ross’ plugins look really helpful. The Post and Page editor pages have become a real mess, the Editor Tabs plugin would be a great candidate for the core of WordPress.
I’m looking forward to checking out Dennis’ accessible theme. I’m nearly to the point where where I’d like to start releasing my own themes, hopefully i can learn a few things from your theme.
Thanks JLeuze, glad you like them and if you have any suggestions please feel free to let me know!
Hey Ross,
I discovered your site by Googling Accessibility Tips for WordPress.
That is a pretty good CMS plugin you created. I am about to start launching a couple custom templates for clients that are complete newbies to WordPress. I am going to use your CMS and also look around and see what else I can add to make it easier for my clients.
Thanks a lot, I appreciate your hard work!
Hey Ross,
I did have one concern with the plugin. However, maybe it is just me, I don’t know. But lets say I have blog that has a bunch of post in it already, and I hand the controls over to someone who really doesn’t know what they are doing.
Lets say I installed the plugin prior to all the post. From my end it looks like it doesn’t pick up all those post when you click “edit post”.
Maybe it is just me, but what are you ideas on that?
Hey Garen,
It should have all of your posts in there. It is just a link to the same place as the standard “edit posts” link on the sidebar. It may be paginated if you have a lot of posts.
Hope this helps!
Ross,
I am a complete idiot I was clicking on edit pages, which I don’t have any. My apologize for being stupid.