Archive for the 'Accessibility' Category



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 [...]

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 [...]

Victor Tsaran and the Yahoo! User Interface group have put together this video to introduce the screen reader usage. It’s an eye-opener to actually experience a screen-reader in person. This video will give developers a good sample.

Hot off the presses. Download the Web Accessibility Toolbar for Opera if you are an Opera user or develop for Opera as a supported browser. The Web Accessibility Toolbar has been developed to aid manual examination of web pages for a variety of aspects of accessibility. It consists of a range of functions that: identify [...]




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