Category: video

Web Accessibility Video

I’m not sure of the motivation or sincerity of this video on YouTube, but it does outline three valid points on why your web site should be web accessible.

Ethics; it’s the right thing to do.
Enlarges your audience; competitive advantage.
It’s the law (possibly, depending on country/state).

I’ll add a number 4, which the video mentions, and that’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO). Not sure if this company even realizes that better accessibility usually translates to better SEO.

Also, the video is illogically named “Documentation Usability Tips” ‘Website Usability’, which itself is not accessible since it doesn’t correctly describe the content of the video.

Understanding Accessibility

Post author By Dennis
Post date March 31, 2009
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Understanding Accessibility – Videos of users using Assistive Technology

Powerful realistic

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Accessible Web Video: JW Player Controls

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Post date March 27, 2009
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Accessible Web Video: JW Player Controls
http://www.wac.ohio-state.edu/examples/jwplayercontrols/

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Webinar, Partnership, and Easy Apps

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Post date March 24, 2009
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Flash and PDF Webinar

You have two more chances to view the webinar The Paciello Group and Adobe Present WCAG 2.0 Accessibility Webinars for Flash and PDF. They will be March 31 and April 1, at 12 noon Eastern Time.

Partnership

Recently, there was a partnership announced between WebAIM and The Paciello Group. The two are teaming up to provide web site owners with full accessibility testing and professional services (by The Paciello Group) and additionally receiving the WebAIM Accessible Site Certification.

Easy Apps

Below are two web applications which make Web 2.0 site mores accessible and usable. They are both from “DOM God” Chris Heilmann.

Easy SlideShare – Convert slide presentations from SlideShare to easy-to-read text.
Easy YouTube – super simple interface for viewing YouTube videos.

UPDATE Mar 29

Fixed the Easy YouTube link above.
Also try QuietTube!

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Video–Introduction to Screen Magnifiers

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Post date July 27, 2007
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Here’s a video on Yahoo!’s YUI Blog that gives a good example of how screen magnifier tools are used. Karo Caran walks us through ZoomText 9.1.

Karo Caran and Victor Tsaran: “Introduction to Screen Magnifiers”