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- @alt and the Flickr Defense
- An explanation of why the Flickr defence is bogus on numerous accounts.
- Using Flash to Detect Screen Readers
- Steve Faulkner talks about responsible usage of Flash's Accessibility.isActive.
- GWT 1.5 Milestone 2 available
- Google Widget Toolkit (GWT) 1.5 announces ARIA support for better accessibility.
- The Notorious CSS?
- Henny has discovered a standards compliant rapper!
- Captioning Sucks
- But Joe Clark's open & closed project aims to address that by defining standards for captioning.
- Understanding How JAWS Reads Text
- Steve Faulkner redresses some of the misinformation about how screen readers work.
- Microsoft Accessibility Labs
- Microsoft have released two new accessibility testing tools; UI Accessibility Checker (AccChecker) and UI Automation Verify (UIA Verify).
- DHTML Style Guide
- Best practice keystrokes for popular widgets.
- Microsoft Expands Support for Web Standards
- Microsoft reverse their decision to make developers opt-in to standard compliance mode, and make standards compliance the default mode with IE8.
- Screen Readers Lack Emphasis
- An article about support for elements such as
strong, and em in JAWS and Window-Eyes.
- Empty Links and Screen Readers
- Mike Davies investigates how popular screen readers handle links without link text to assist the Microformats group create an accessible include pattern.
- Introducing WAVE 4.0
- WebAIM announce a beta version of their web accessibility evaluation tool, WAVE 4.0.
- HTML 5 Draft
- The HTML 5 working group release their first draft.
- NVDA - a free and open source screen reader for Windows
- Thoughts about testing procedures and using NVDA as an alternative screen reader for developers
- Top 32 Articles for 2007
- Jen Wedin recommends 32 articles for people to have read before 2008.
- Using WAI-ARIA Roles and States with the YUI Menu Control
- How to use the WAI-ARIA Roles and States with YUI's Menu Control.
- They shoot standardistas, don't they?
- Joe Clark talks about the lack of accessibility provisions in HTML 5.
- Wheeling in Second Life
- Video of woman with cerebral palsy talking about Second Life and the club Wheelies.
- New Flash Player
- The latest Flash player has MSAA support for Firefox so assistive technology users can interact with Flash in Firefox, as well as IE.
- Providing Context for Ambiguous Link Phrases
- An article explaining how to provide context for ambiguous link phrases without compromising the visual design.