alt and title content display in popular browsers
Recently Roger Johansson wrote a post about Safari, WebKit and alt text for missing images. In which he talks about how Webkit based browsers do not always display alt attribute…
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ComputerWorld says ‘Safari 4 Tuned to Web Standards…Accessibility…ARIA”
IDG/ComputerWorld’s Tom Yager wrote an interesting review of Safari 4. Among several interesting points concerning WebKit and performance, Yager wrote, “A fast and pretty browser won’t cut it for me….
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Free Online Seminar: Accessible Content Workflow with Adobe InDesign CS4 and Acrobat 9
TPG’s Charlie Pike in conjunction with Adobe is presenting a free online seminar. This seminar will concentrate on Accessible Content Workflow with Adobe InDesign CS4 and Adobe Acrobat 9.
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ARIA role support: how the Windows browsers stack up – Update
Testing of the latest builds of the major Windows browsers indicates Google Chrome’s ARIA role support improving, 18 of 47 roles are now correctly mapped to MSAA roles. There has…
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TPGi and Riverdocs Announce Accessibility Services for Legacy PDF Documents
Nashua, NH – Sep. 28, 2009 – TPGi (TPG), pioneers in the field of accessible interface design, and Riverdocs, a leading document conversion solutions provider, today announced a partnership that…
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Apple Webkit Gets Serious About WAI-ARIA (on Mac)
A check of the support for WAI-ARIA roles in the latest Webkit Nightly builds, reveals a major improvement for WAI-ARIA role support on the Mac version of Webkit (an open…
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Google Chrome Frame – accessibility black hole
See update 07/2012: Google Chrome accessibility update Google have released Chrome Frame a plugin-in for Internet Explorer “that seamlessly brings Google Chrome’s open web technologies and speedy JavaScript engine to…
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Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA now in French
Recently Gez Lemon of TPGi wrote an article for the Opera Developer Network on Accessible drag and drop using WAI-ARIA. His colleague Cedric Trevisan has translated Gez’s article into French.
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US Access Board to Release Pre-Draft of New Section 508/255 Standards
Received the following email from Tim Creagan at the US Access Board. Finally!! “This is the latest status update for you on the progress of the refresh of the 508…
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WAI-ARIA Implementation in JavaScript UI Libraries – updated
A number of popular Javascript UI Libraries are in the process of adding WAI-ARIA support to their widgets and components. What is the current status and future plans for WAI-ARIA…
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PDF Accessibility Webinar
PDF & WCAG 2.0 Charlie Pike from TPGi is presenting a PDF Accessibility Webinar in conjunction with Adobe Acrobat User Group. It’s free to attend, pre-registration required. Wednesday, June 17…
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ARIA Role Support in Safari 4.0
Victor Tsarin asked on Twitter Safari4 final came out but I don’t see any #ARIA improvements. Do you? The Safari 4 New features page talks about ARIA support Safari supports…
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Notes on accessibility of text replacement using HTML5 canvas
Roger Johannson recently blogged on issues with Cufon Accessibility in relation to Assistive Technology, which is well worth a read. It prompted me to do a little testing:
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Thinking About HTML 5 canvas Accessibility
The canvas element is a new element of the ‘in progress’ HTML 5 specification, it provides the ability to create dynamically generated graphics in HTML in conjunction with JavaScript. It…
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Webinar Rerecorded: Adobe Flash and WCAG 2
The Flash and WCAG 2 webinar was rerecorded due to quality issues with the original live version
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Google Chrome 2.0 Accessibility Improvements?
When Google first released Chrome back in September 2008, I carried out a quick and dirty accessibility analysis of it. With the release of Google chrome 2.0 I though it…
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Comparison of ARIA roles exposed via MSAA and UI Automation in IE8
The Microsoft MSAA API cannot provide mapping for all ARIA roles as it does not have defined roles and properties for all those defined by The ARIA specification, the Microsoft…
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AOL/TopCoder Accessibility Developer Competition
AOL/TopCoder® Accessibility Developer Competition to Culminate at 2009 TopCoder Open. Winning Accessibility Application of AOL/TopCoder Sensations Developer Challenge to be Announced June 1-4, 2009 – Las Vegas, NV