Archive for the 'Accessibility' Category



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We have avoided using CSS3 rules for too long. It’s been difficult to justify using rules that won’t work for a significant portion of our audience, Internet Explorer 7 and below. However, Internet Explorer 8 is coming out soon and does work with the features we like.

I think [...]

The internet is awash in video. YouTube, Yahoo Video, and other video sites host millions of videos with little attention to close captioning. For many sites, the text translations exist, they simply are not used. This sucks.
Television shows have featured captioning for many years. It’s sometimes the only way to figure out what they are [...]

The Royal National Institute of Blind People has just released a set of guidelines for building accessible Flash ads. While these are aimed at ads, there’s no reason you can’t use the same guidelines in all of your Flash projects.

Provide a text equivalent for the animation.
Provide an alternative for the Flash animation
Readability
Looping and blinking
Test your [...]

I’ve been using a little CSS trickery to hide content and data from the average user. I hate to mention it too often as it can open pandora’s box. There was a recent thread on the Microformat’s discussion list about this very topic. The gist of many programmers is that data worth sharing is data [...]

They Yahooo User Interface group has added another video to their accessibility library. This time Karo Caron and Victor Tsaran introduce the screen magnifier.
Screen Magnifiers assist people with limited vision by magnifying small portions of the screen. This causes new problems with “popup” dialog boxes, sliding components, and more. It’s especially important for User [...]




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