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Monitor the Accessibility of Your Own Websites with Montastic
2009-07-02 08:55:00 As it is not always possible for you to check whether the website is accessible, use an online service for this. The monitoring is much better than you believe as it tells you when your site goes down so that you can react and solve it before your users complain about it. There are numerous ... Related posts:F.Lux – Computer Monitor Light Adjusting Software for Windows XP, Vista, Mac OS X and LinuxQuickly Find the Domain Holders/ Owner of Surfed WebsitesHow to Download Locked or Restricted Images from Photo websites like FlickrConvert any File Into a Websites with File2.wsHow to Change Monitor/Screen Resolution in LinuxTroubleshooting Monitor Resolution Problems in Linux
Accessibility options
2009-02-07 20:48:00 Hi, I have been an idiot again, and fiddled with the accessibility options, just out of interest, and have made all the text a different size, and the bars at the top are half the normal size, and the minimize/maximize and close buttons etc are also resized. Any ideas how to get it back? I have t
Chris Lee - Accessibility Personified
2008-11-02 22:19:00 Evidently, any media outlet that may have the unmitigated gall and audacity to write negative things about Chris Lee, Republican candidate for Congress from NY-26 will be shut out and any media requests will be continually and perpetually denied. That's accessibility you can believe in. [HTML1]
By: BuffaloPundit
10 Tools for Evaluating Web Design Accessibility and Performance
2008-08-28 19:15:00 Testing for web accessibility (how usable a website is by individuals with disabilities) is an often neglected part of web design and development. Web accessibility is important not only because your content will reach a wider range of audience, but also because correcting web accessibility issues have secondary benefits such as cleaner and more semantic ...
By: iYiZ.com
Should accessibility be made a requirement?
2008-08-07 19:42:00 A lot of recent discussion and federal involvement has raised the issue of accessibility of medical equipment and the necessity to ensure accessibility for all disability populations. Does anyone have any opinions?
Web Accessibility a Universal Goal!
2008-06-14 02:33:00 by: Mr. Nidal A. BousalehOver the last decay, an increase number of research were conducted to determine ways Information Technology can assist in meeting special needs to ensure universal accessibility. Findings to date suggest that by being more knowledgeable about accessibility issues, Web designers and developers are able to accommodate end users with special needs.As we enter the knowledge age, it is no longer acceptable that people with limited or no vision are on their own when it comes to accessing the web, nor those with mobility problems are on their own when it comes to use a hardware. To ignorewebsite accessibility raises moral, business, and legal issues. It is morally wrong to discriminateagainst disabled people on the web simply through lack of thought, consideration, or awareness. Many business web sites designed without considering accessibility issues result in loss of revenue. Some countries, such as the US, UK, and Australia has introduced legislation that requir...
Turkey benefits from 'low prices and accessibility'
2008-06-09 02:00:00 Those looking for an investment property in the sun may wish to consider houses or apartments in Turkey. The country offers apartments in holiday resorts from as little as £19,000 and with plenty of budget flights available, purchasing a property in Turkey may be a wise investment, according to the Sunday Mail. Turkey currently has extremely competitive property prices, particularly in relation to its Mediterranean rivals, such as holiday favourites Spain and Portugal. Stuart Malloy, who recently bought an apartment in Didim, said: "I'd been looking to buy abroad for years but the cost of property in the Mediterranean and the Canaries really put me off. In addition to the holiday essentials such as sun, sand and pools, Turkey has a wealth of alternative activities, including historical and cultural attractions. With government plans to invest 200 million lira (£81 million) to increase tourist numbers two-fold in the next 15 years, purchasing rental property n...
Data Protection and Accessibility with Tilana Reserve
2008-05-26 05:56:00 Quick and reliable exchange and storage of information is now necessary for any business who strives to be competitive in a stiffer market competition. They cannot lax. While remote web access and mobile remote file access are commonplace, there is still a need to only rely on a credible utility provided by Tilana. They will not only provide you the access you need where and when you need it, but they will also provide continuous data protection to safeguard the integrity of your data. Tilana is a SanDiego based IT company whose being managed by experienced software engineers and professionals. They in fact, "?solves the universal problem of digital content management, through continuous real time data protection and synchronization. ? Moreover, "? present the otherwise unavailable combination of true real time CDP, permanent archival, sync, remote and mobile data access, and version history as a single balanced, quickly deployed, versatile, and extensible online CDP data pr...
Accessible search engine
2008-05-14 21:26:00 Stumbled across an interesting concept the other day called net-guide, which is basically an accessible search engine that in turn lists and promotes accessible websites in its results. The idea is good, but I’m not sure it’s implemented right. For example doing a search on sponge project, returns this site at the top result as ...
By: Sponge Project
Web Accessibility Tools
2008-05-05 15:29:00 Here I am going to list down couple of useful online tools to optimize accessibility of website. Optimizing accessibility of a website is really useful to capture widen audience. Give a try and test your website with these tools to see how accessible your website is. WebXACT Web Accessibility Checker WAVE 3.0 Accessibility Tool TAW3 online HiSoftware® Cynthia Says? Portal HERA 2.0 Readability ...
AT&T Introduces New iPhone Text Accessibility Plan for Customers with Disab
2008-04-30 17:24:00 The iPhone is now even more accessible for Americans who are deaf or have a hearing or speech disability. Today, AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced a new Text Accessibility Plan (TAP) for iPhone, designed to give iPhone customers with disabilities the choice of unlimited text messaging, Web browsing and easy access to e-mail for $40 a ...
AT&T adds Text Accessibility Plan for iPhone
2008-04-29 18:28:00 If you’re deaf or hard of hearing, there’s been nothing preventing you from getting an iPhone, but you might have been a little bit miffed that you had to pay for voice service that you’d never use. No longer, however, as AT&T has announced today their new Text Accessibility Plan for iPhone. The TAP plan costs $40/month and lets you ditch the voice part of the plan, while adding unlimited SMS text messages and holding onto the iPhone’s full unlimited data plan. That works out pretty evenly, since both unlimited SMS and the iPhone’s data plan usually cost about $20 apiece. Just in case you want to lend your phone to someone else, you can still make phone calls at a cost of $0.40/minute. And you can still get Visual Voicemail, too (though I’m not sure how useful that will be to most hearing impaired users). Not just anybody can sign up for the plan, however. You’ll need to fill out an eligibility form (PDF link), which requires you get...
Buzz Combines Style, Sustainability and Accessibility
2008-04-17 08:48:00 I used to drive by Buzz Lofts all the time and check out the construction progress. It's a modern, green, and affordable condo-loft community immediately south of downtown Dallas. The...
By: Jetson Green
Orca accessibility app makes a whale of an impact
2008-04-08 01:32:00 Many people know that free and open source software (FOSS) plays a role in creating the technical infrastructure of developing nations and in preserving endangered languages. With the Orca screen reader, FOSS takes on the new role of providing access to computers and the Internet to people with disabilities. The project is quickly catching up with proprietary accessibility options, and is already being widely deployed as a low-cost alternative.
By: Server Tales
Orca accessibility app makes a whale of an impact
2008-04-08 01:32:00 Many people know that free and open source software (FOSS) plays a role in creating the technical infrastructure of developing nations and in preserving endangered languages. With the Orca screen reader, FOSS takes on the new role of providing access to computers and the Internet to people with disabilities. The project is quickly catching up with proprietary accessibility options, and is already being widely deployed as a low-cost alternative.
By: Server Tales
The problem of accessibility
2008-04-07 04:59:00 Last summer while traveling, my daughter Kate and I were using a public restroom, and I heard a woman calling out to us from under the stall. “Hello? Hello?” “Yes?” I asked, wondering if she was all right. “Can you hear me?” she asked. “Yes, are you okay?” I asked her. We came out of our stall and I stood by the door of hers, concerned she was trapped or had fallen or worse. But she began talking more, and I realized with a rush of embarrassment that she was on her cell phone. As I led Kate over to the sink to wash, I heard the woman say, “Yes, I’m in the bathroom at the gas station. We’re on our way....” and so on. She flushed while she was on the phone (as had I, unknowingly) and walked out, not even glancing at us as she made a beeline for the door. Later I thought about why I was embarrassed, when clearly she was the one transgressing social rules by using her phone in the bathroom. Really, are any of us so important that we need to be t...
11 Accessibility Tips
2008-04-01 06:02:00 When developing a site we all sometimes overlook simple methods that we can use to make our site more accessible. Here's a list of tips that should really be used by all of us, myself included.1. Structure your document so it can be read without stylesheetThis is the most important tip. Be extra careful of properly structuring your page. Use headings to describe content sections, use lists, make sure that you page has the logical flow. Don't rely on stylesheet to create that flow for you.2. Separate your linksSeparate consecutive links with more than just a white space. Screen readers tend to interpret two (or more) non separated consecutive links as one.3. Meaningful links When read out of context, make sure that your links make sense. i.e. use "read full article" instead of "click here".4. Include skip to content linkPermit users to skip repetitive navigation links. If you have the same navigation at the top of the page this allow users to go directly to the content instead of h...
mobility accessibility
2008-03-29 13:58:00 Starting at the age of 70, our bones are starting to become so week and frail, it would be so difficult to move and walk. At this age most people just want to stay indoor...
mobility accessibility
2008-03-29 13:58:00 Starting at the age of 70, our bones are starting to become so week and frail, it would be so difficult to move and walk. At this age most people just want to stay indoor...
Website Accessibility
2008-02-25 14:59:00 Website Accessibility on the internet is just as important as it is in the real world. It is about supporting disabled visitors, but that is not the only reason for making a website accessible. An accessible website can be accessed by people with different web browsers, PDA's, and cell phones. A common misconception is that by making a website accessible, it will be not as attractive as a website that is not accessible. That is not the case. Website Accessibility does not need to affect presentation at all! Using semantic, well structured XHTML will take you a long the way towards creating an accessible website. To get an idea of how accessible a page is, try viewing it in a text-based browser like Lynx to see if the content still makes sense. This is far from the only Website Accessibility check you need to do, but it's a good start. Just imagine having a sight or dexterity disability, and visiting a website that is not accessible. You'd be upset - and discriminated against! Fed...
Helping others understand web accessibility
2008-02-22 05:44:00 When I hold workshops for people who want to learn more about web standards and accessibility, I often notice that the attendants really have tried to improve their accessibility knowledge. But they get overwhelmed when they go to the official documentation from the W3C and try to understand it.Mike Cherim brings this up in Making Web Accessibility Accessible, an article that is over a year old but still just as relevant. He notes that accessibility is harder to get into than it should be for several reasons, one of which being that the documentation (WCAG 1.0) is hard to understand. And it doesn’t look like things will get much easier when WCAG 2.0 is released and becomes the norm.In addition to the documentation problem, Mike also mentions the unhelpful attitude held by some people who seem like they don’t want to help the less experienced, the misguided or the misinformed, and instead choose to criticise them. I see it too sometimes, and I have probably been guilty of doing t...
WCAG 2.0: The New W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines Evaluated
2008-02-20 11:49:00 WCAG 2.0: The New W3C Web Accessibility Guidelines Evaluated by: Trenton MossThe second version of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) is in final working draft and will soon be officially released. Version 1 of the guidelines ( http://ww...
Making the grade: the candidates and accessibility
2008-02-11 06:18:00 Ed. note: I updated this post at 14:35 PST on Monday, Feb 11, 2008 to add more information of each candidate’s voting record on accessibility & deaf tech issues, and upgraded McCain’s grade from “F” to “D-” based on his voting record. This post over on Daily Kos by ?slinkerwink? describes how Barack Obama is the ...SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Making the grade: the candidates and accessibility", url: "http://www.stonedeafpilots.com-/?p=88" });
Accessibility boosts Italy's appeal
2008-02-07 01:00:00 Good transport links to Italy are helping to attract property investors to the country, an expert has stated.Fund management firm Pirelli RE Agency stated that the Italian market was proving to be a popular choice with British buyers because it was very easy to reach.Mario Rozza, marketing and communication director at the firm, said low-cost airlines now offered routes to "virtually every" part of the country, which means that most locations are highly accessible and affordable to get to.This, he stated, would help ensure that the "strong interest" in Italian property ownership continues during the coming year at least.Mr Rozza added that the range of properties currently on the market "has never been larger".This comes shortly after the Telegraph reported that the accessibility of a region was one of the main issues considered by property buyers when choosing where to invest.
External Accessibility Resources
2008-02-05 16:18:00 Section 508 (of the Americans with Disabilities Act) Guidelines information can be found in the Standards, Guidelines, and Style Guides section. The W3C’s links to FAQs, official recommendations, and techniques to create accessible sites: Refer to the W3C’s Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 for the official recommendations that explain how to make Web content accessible for those with disabilities. The W3C’s Fact Sheet for “Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0” is an excellent FAQ and place to start to learn about the W3C Accessibility Guidelines, why they matter, how to implement them, where to find more information, and related. The Techniques for Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 1.0 page is a key section to learn how to implement the Accessibility Guidelines. Learn the core techniques, such as separating structure from content, alternative pages, validation, and browser support. Visit the CSS Techniques for Web Content Accessibilit...
Malaysian Association For The Blind (MAB) - Accessibility Workshop for the
2008-01-26 20:34:00 I attended a workshop yesterday as a “web accessibility guru” organized by Khairul Yusof of http://foss.org.my. The workshop was a great opportunity to learn from visually disabled computer users, in fact 90% of the session was on obtaining feedback on all different aspects of IT from the end users perspective.
Microsoft Releases Tools to Boost Web Accessibility
2008-01-18 20:04:00 Microsoft on Thursday is expected to release a new set of developer tools for products that improve the Internet's accessibility for people with disabilities. The tools, called UI Automation, can be used royalty-free, according to Microsoft's Windows Accessibility lead Norm Hodne, as long as the resulting applications are built to perform within all platforms, e.g. Windows or Linux.Microsoft formally donated the UI (user interface) Automation developer tools to the Accessibility Interoperability Alliance (AIA), an engineering working group that the software giant helped form last November in partnership with tech companies like Oracle, Novell, Hewlett-Packard and Adobe Systems, as well as assistive-technology developers like GW Micro. The working group's mission is to pave the way for standards in the industry for text-to-speech software, screen readers and other assistive products.Microsoft's UI Automation comes nearly 12 years after the company's last developer tools for acce...
Manual Seo for Wordpress Optimization
2008-01-17 18:28:00 Wordpress is an excellent, efficent blogging platform to create the foundations of what could be a very successful website/blog. Wordpress it's self has many plug-ins, with more & more being created on a weekly basis covering all aspects of Seo (search engine optimization) & other useful things. More on towards the Seo (search engine optimization) part of Wordpress, many new webmasters may not truely understand Seo; what it does & what it can really achieve, however for the minority that do understand Seo you will already know that Wordpress is least impressive for it's Seo with its "factory state" settings. Below the Resonate Seo Consultancy has made some excellent techniques to which will bring your un-impressive optimized Wordpress to a very good standard ready for search engines. The two instances given below are the most important & effective "on-site" optimizations you can do to better optimize your Wordpress blog for the search engines. ...
Making a Website Look Good
2008-01-03 16:00:00 Designing a web site? Usability, accessibility and some basic browser design guidelines should be the considered to make a visually appealing site. Creative Design, Usability, Accessibility and the Browsers ExplainedCreative web design is all about making a website visually appealing. A visually appealing website is a site that is easy to read, easy to navigate. To create a site that visitors will not click away from immediately, follow some basic design standards, and think about the usability and accessibility of the design. The Basics: Colors: the true cross-platform color palette is 216 colorsFonts: The fonts used must be on the users’ computer. The most commonly used fonts are: Times New Roman, Arial, and Helvetica. These fonts are easy to read on a computer screen.Screen Resolutions: Most users are viewing the web with a resolution of 1024x768. The second most common is 800x600. Which resolution used should be carefully considered. Think about designing a resolution i...
Brief description of Web Accessibility
2007-12-26 05:29:00 What exactly is Web Accessibility ?Simply put, web accessibility is about making a site accessible to the largest range of people possible. For the majority of website owners, this is simply good business sense. After all, the more people you have using your site the better.Making a website accessible involves removing potential barriers to access and one of the best ways of doing this is to build sites to 'web standards'.Who does this affect ?People often think that web accessibility relates only to people with physical disabilities. Although they are often most affected by poorly designed sites, accessibility is a much wider issue and at a fundamental level, affects us all. * Blind, visually impaired and colour blind people are probably the most obvious group of individuals affected by accessibility issues. This group also makes up a very large percentage of web surfers * People with physical disabilities, such as those with impaired mobility * People surfing...
Accessibility Interoperability Alliance
2007-12-20 11:37:00 Quite a mouthful, but the new Accessibility Interoperability Alliance promise great things: "dedicated to enabling developers to more easily create accessible software, hardware and Web products" and "Improving Accessibility Through Industry Collaboration"...which can only be a good thing.
By: Sponge Project
Accessibility? Because It?s Our Job!
2007-12-14 17:47:00 I’ve been pondering a topic for sometime: why do clients need accessibility? My personal view is that as a professional I am here to give my clients the best possible service and with that comes adopting the right approaches to website building.
By: Sponge Project
Web Accessibility: Ensuring Equal Access For the Visually Impaired
2007-12-14 08:09:00 With all the dynamic and rich web pages appearing each day, it leads one to wonder, how can we ensure access to information for the visually impaired and blind? In the old days when HTML was king, screen readers were effective in providing the details of what was on a web page. But flash cannot ...
Firefox Accessibility Extension : Navigation made easy for the Disabled
2007-12-06 11:41:00 Firefox Accessibility Extension 1.2.0.10 is an extension that makes navigating the web easier for people with disabilities. It is made easier by adding a special toolbar. Developers can use the toolbar to check their structural markup to make sure it matches the page content. It works with firefox : 1.5 ? 2.0.0. Download Firefox Accessibility Extension
By: TechDune
HTML Email Standards
2007-12-01 04:04:00 Every couple of months or so, developers at work have to rebuild some HTML email templates and turn to my team and ask the inevitable question, “Do we have HTML email standards?”. “They aren’t complete” is my usual answer as I flashback to my last attempt at painfully coding up an HTML template and trying to ...
By: Standardzilla
IBM Bid for Accessibility for Disabled
2007-11-30 18:24:00 The first ever “Human Ability and Accessibility Center” has been inaugurated in the country by IBM India. Its mission statement being to make information and technology easily accessible to people with visual, cognitive, hearing, and motor disabilities. And in the event, possibly drawing upon an untapped resource — namely, differently-abled people who might otherwise be ...
By: Latest News
Luxury & Accessibility: Do They Coexist?
2007-11-20 23:19:00 If you sat back and dreamed up the most luxurious confection possible, where would you sell it? Target & H&M believe they’re making luxury goods available to the masses, but are they really? One could argue they are simply dangling the notion of luxury, without providing actual luxury products. We haven’t fully formed our thoughts, ...
By: Style IT
AJAX For Accessibility
2007-11-18 03:34:00 iface thoughts – Charles Chen writes about AxsJAX – a framework for injecting accessibility using AJAX techniques. Pronounced as Access JAX, AxsJAX follows the W3C ARIA specification, and might work as an active test tool for it. Being the main developer behind Fire Vox, Charles has made AxsJAX available through it, as a bookmarklet and through Greasemonkey script. Google ... read more
What is Web Accessibility?
2007-11-13 06:00:00 According to Wikipedia, "web accessibility refers to the practice of making websites usable by people of all abilities and disabilities. When sites are correctly designed, developed and edited, all users can have equal access to information and functionality. "For example, when a site is coded with semantically meaningful HTML, with textual equivalents provided for images and with links named meaningfully, this helps blind users using text-to-speech software and/or text-to-Braille hardware." In other words, to make the most of your website for all people, you have to make it usable for all. And that means adding textual equivalents, eliminating animated graphics (not Flash), and using pleasing backgrounds and text colors, among other things. The Town of Enfield, Conn., was recently certified to be in compliance with the Accessibility Policy for Connecticut State Government Web Sites, Version 4.0. To comment on this post, or view The Content Coach's blog, click here... Written by E...
Dreamweaver's Approach To Website Accessibility
2007-11-12 11:47:00 Accessibility, in the context of websites, refers to the degree to which the content you add to your web site can be accessed by your audience; all of them, not just the able bodied ones and those with 20/20 vision. Accessible websites offer good support for screen readers, cater for users who browse the web without viewing graphics and who wish to magnify the text on your pages to a level comfortable for their eyesight. There are a number of features within Dreamweaver which help web developers ensure that their pages are accessible. The program can be set up so that it will automatically offer you a series of accessibility options whenever you add an image, media element or form field to a page. There is also a built-in utility which you can use to check whether your pages contain elements which are not accessible. The main settings in Dreamweaver are located by choosing Edit - Preferences. On the left of the Preferences screen there are a series of categories. In the General ca...
Updating your site from HTML to XHTML
2007-11-08 14:09:00 Everyone?s going on about XHTML nowadays, and you?re probably beginning to get a bit worried that your site must be infinitely inferior to the rest of the web as you?ve got no clue what XHTML is, and your site?s just coded in plain old HTML. XHTML stands for Extensible Hypertext Mark-up Language and is a hybrid ...
By: SEO Blogger
The Benefits of Using Semantic Code
2007-11-07 13:11:00 What is Semantic Code/HTML you ask? Basically, it’s a way of writing your HTML in a more meaningful, structured and to be honest, sensible way. It’s all about using your header tags (H1, H2, etc) for yep, you guessed it - headers, instead of bolding the text and increasing the font size with the old <font ...
By: SEO Blogger
Alt text and form buttons set as images
2007-11-03 08:51:00 There is something I always used to forget, and I didn’t realise this until a website I developed in the past was the recipient of a very comprehensive, postmortem accessibility review. I am quite pleased to say the majority of the results were decent. The pedantic standardista in me had in fact hacked up the correct ...
By: Standardzilla
Honda Odysseys Converted for Wheelchair Accessibility
2007-10-26 02:26:00 Disabled veterans are in so much gratitude as Vantage Mobility International (VMI) donated wheel-chair accessible Honda Odysseys to the New York City Mayor's Office for People with Disabilities and the Office of Veterans Affairs! There were two converted Odysseys delivered by American Honda Motor Inc. which was supplied and adapted by VMI. The Northstar conversion will offer a power in-floor ramp for open entrance and better interior movement for all kinds of wheelchairs. Anyone with any type of disability will bounce like Chevrolet shocks if all vehicles offered to them are like these converted Odysseys!"To have use of a vehicle of this caliber and convenience will impact tremendously the work we do to provide assistance for people with disabilities in New York City," says Matthew Sapolin, Commissioner of MOPD.According to TheAutoChannel.com, Mayor Bloomberg recognized the special gift by meeting up with CEO of VMI, Doug Eaton and representatives of other contributing groups at Gr...
By: Talk About Cars!
Improved accessibility 'draws investors to Calabria'
2007-10-18 00:00:00 Overseas property investors are increasingly looking at the south of Italy because of the improved accessibility of the region, it has been reported.The growth of budget aviation was said to be one of the main factors behind its recent emergence as a hotspot for foreign property buyers....
New York State Forum Selects HiSoftware for State Web Accessibility …
2007-10-17 05:59:00 Forbes - We are pleased to be working with HiSoftware and the best of New York State's government Web development staff on the creation of this compliance testing tool. We are confident it will... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
By: Engineers Voice
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