Here’s a list of Twitter Lists targeting web accessibility.
- http://twitter.com/webaxe/web-accessibility from me, @webaxe
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Social Media Venn Diagram T-Shirt from despair.com
http://despair.com/somevedi.html
Perfect scenario for the longdesc attribute!
The alt I used in the image below is “Social Media Venn Diagram”
Three intersection circles labeled Narcissism, ADHD, and Stalking.
Narcissism and ADHD cross and labeled MySpace.
Narcissism and Stalking cross and labeled Facebook.
Stalking and ADHD cross and labeled FourSquare.
All three (Stalking, ADHD, and Narcissism) cross and labeled Twitter.
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Podcast #79: CSUN 2010 Preview
Dennis and guest Jennison Asuncion discuss the upcoming CSUN conference, formally titled The 25th Annual International Technology & Persons with Disabilities Conference. Discussion includes helpful hints about the conference, session previews, and special events. The event is March 22-27 at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Hotel in downtown San Diego, California.
Download Web Axe Episode 79 (CSUN 2010 Preview)
Related Links:
- WebAIM’s 2010 CSUN Session Lineup
- Adobe at CSUN 2010
- Twitter list: Speakers at CSUN 2010
- CSUN Tweetup
Here are highlights of the many great links relating to web accessibility going around Twitter this past month:
- Fun, and it’s accessible Flash! (direct Flash link) Assistive Technology Boogie
- Study on Accessible Twitter on the Kindle from Sarah Bourne
- Open Government and Accessibility – How Open is Open? (see comments too!)
- Freedom of Choice – on browsers and assistive technology (see comments too!)
- Making Your Web Colors Visible For All – Five Color Accessibility Tools from SitePoint
- Screen Reader Support For Disabled & Read-Only Form Fields from Tink
- Section 508-WCAG mappings: http://bit.ly/cYBqIL, http://bit.ly/a6ulQz, http://bit.ly/9jHYL4
- Join the Yahoo! accessibility group
- Resources on cognitive web accessibility research
- Remaking the Persona of the Physically Challenged
- Accessible Twitter: Advancement through technology by @LeonieWatson
- What is Unclear About Captioning?
- How should Web browsers render alternative text?
On February 12, Jebswebs and I twittered that the Vancouver Winter Olympics web site is not accessible. Jebswebs reported 58 errors on the home page alone using the WAVE tool. (View the re-tweet from Jennison.) I listed examples such as several navigation issues and Flash and JavaScript issues.
Ten days later, Joe Clark published an excellent article Vancouver Olympics Web sites are inaccessible to disabled people. He first points out that John Furlong (CEO of VANOC) broke a promise to make the web site accessible. (Even after a a blind man in Australia won a human-rights case against the Sydney Olympic organizing committee and IBM for an inaccessible web site.) Joe provides a report on the inaccessible content and also publishes responses from the VANOC and his replies.
It doesn’t take an expert to find areas where the Winter Olympics site needs improvement. Even for alternative text, one of the most basic and important guidelines for web accessibility, the site is lacking. This includes inadequate alternative text for Flash content and the fact that many images do not have alternate text.
In addition, the following points are for navigation only!
- Dropdown menus require JavaScript.
- Redundant title attributes
- No skip-to links
- No focus state on links (only mouse-over)
- No ARIA
- No menu heading
My suggestion for those who need more accessibility? Try Yahoo’s Vancouver Winter Olympics coverage.
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