Category: html5

Fixing Alt – Social Media Venn Diagram Made Accessible

Post author By Dennis
Post date March 23, 2010
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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.

Social Media Venn Diagram

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Roundup: Accessibility Links on Twitter

Post author By Dennis
Post date November 23, 2009
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Here’s a list of some great links relating to web accessibility going around Twitter last week.

An excellent, open, web accessibility curriculum from WaSP InterAct (@waspinteract)
Captioned Interview with Ken Harrenstein (Deaf) and T.V. Raman (Blind) both Engineers at Google.
AIR 2 Beta, Introducing Accessibility Support
Automatic captions in YouTube
Upcoming web accessibility training courses for professionals from the RNIB; 15-19 Feb 2010; Liverpool, UK.
Input for HTML5 needed: Do you find table summaries helpful?
Gov 2.0: Transparency without accessibility? Nearly 20 percent of Americans need sites such as Recovery.gov and Disability.gov to improve accessibility features.

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Podcast #74: Awards, Events & Back to Basics

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Post date September 29, 2009
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A super special podcast:

First time face-to-face recording between Dennis and Ross.
In Santa Cruz, California.
4-Year Anniversary for Web Axe.

Download Web Axe Episode 74 (Awards, Events & Back to Basics)

[transcript of podcast 74]

Chatter

Articles

If a page is viewed through Google Chrome Frame in Internet Explorer no content is available to the user of assistive technology (AT). This can be illustrated using the Microsofts accexplorer tool.

Events/Conferences

Main Segment

WCAG 2: Remember P.O.U.R.: Perceivable, Operable, Understandable, Robust

Perceivable – Interface elements can not be invisible to users.
Operable – Users must be able to interact with the interface.
Understandable – Users must be able to understand with information and the interface (cognitive).
Robust – Must be usable by a wide range of user agents and assisstive technologies.

Use P.O.S.H.: Plain Ol’ Semantic HTML

Use headings and properly.
P is for paragraph.
blockquotes for quotes (not indentation).
Use lists for lists, menus, etcetera.
Definition Lists.
Use strong and em tags versus b and i.

Podcasts from Tweeps: Universal Design, SitePoint, Heretech

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Post date July 28, 2009
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Some great recent podcasts from some great Tweeps (if you’ve been on Mars, that means users of Twitter).

Universal design and Web Accessibility For Everyone — Great interview with Wendy Chisholm. Co-author of Universal Design for Web Applications, speaker, tweep (@wendyabc).
SitePoint Podcast #20: YouTube Deep-sixes IE 6 — In addition to YouTube and IE6, topics include HTML5, web fonts, and the “DiggBar”. Hosted by Patrick O’Keefe (@ifroggy), Stephan Segraves (@ssegraves), Brad Williams (@williamsba) and Kevin Yank (@sentience).
The Heretech, episode 15: Cindy Alvarez on market development — Cindy Alvarez (a wonderful former co-worker) is a guest on this product management interview podcast. Cindy (@cindyalvarez) and host Tom Grant (@TomGrantForr) provide insightful conversation on design and user experience.